The press are having a field day manipulating the numbers.   
   Many have pointed out "almost all" UFO reports are just mis-identified   
   mundane objects. Others suggest the only UFO reports ever made were   
   the 144 listed in the previous UFO report submitted to the US Congress.   
   And today -- probably equally not correct -- the Mail is saying   
   1/2 of sightings are unexplained.   
      
   Meanwhile, the NASA comittee is pressing ahead with its examination   
   of "unclassified data" whatever data that is. Given some of the commitee   
   members are complaining about the "paucity of data" they maybe are looking   
   at some govt-approved list rather than the 10s of 1000s of sightings   
   (not all of very good quality, let it be said ;) available from GEIPAN,   
   MUFON or NUFORC.   
      
   I also noticed one member tout NASA's great expertise in scientific   
   investigation, apparently ignoring the aparent fact the organisation   
   formed to learn about what is out and about in the solar system   
   and space in general has apparently never laid eyes on anything strange.   
      
   Ah. The problems of re-treading the path many have taken in the last   
   65+ years... and trying to gloss over being missing in action all that time.   
      
      
   New classified report to congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be   
   properly explained   
   Daily Mail, 31 Oct 2022 15:49Z   
   Sources tell DailyMail.com that a classified report is due to be sent to   
   Congress listing more than 150 cases of unexplained ...   
      
   --   
   "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.   
   Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."   
   - Marie Curie   
      
   How big a deal is NASA's new UFO study?   
   [image] An unidentified flying object, as seen by a US Navy jet.   
   Space.com, 18 July 2022   
   In early June, NASA announced that it's commissioning an independent study   
   on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as UFOs have recently been rebranded.   
   The intent is to move the scientific understanding of UAP forward, said   
   Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science.   
   "NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply   
   here also," Zurbuchen said in a statement (opens in new tab). "We have   
   access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space - and that   
   is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can   
   help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That's the very definition   
   of what science is. That's what we do."   
   The UAP study team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, previously   
   the chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University.   
   "Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather   
   the most robust set of data that we can," Spergel said in the NASA   
   statement.  "We will be identifying what data -- from civilians,   
   govt, non-profits, companies -- exists, what else we should try   
   to collect and how to best analyze it."   
   [The investigation of why NASA has missed something obvious to many   
   for the past 65+ years will come later. But it argues that classical   
   approaches of Organised Science might draw another blank on UFO's].   
      
   Op-Ed: NASA studying UFOs won't prove alien life exists. They should do it   
   anyway   
   YAHOO!News, 31 Oct 2022 10:03Z   
   The govt has renewed interest in UFOs. Scientists can show what it   
   looks like to investigate the possibility of alien ...   
      
   Another UFO report comes out next week, some incidents still unexplained   
   ABC News, 28 Oct 2022 23:04Z   
   The enduring debate about whether UFOs are caused by extraterrestrial beings   
   will once again be front and center next week as ...   
      
   Lake Monduran to host alien expedition   
   The Courier-Mail, 27 Oct 2022 07:02Z   
   Keen alien spotters may snag more than a barra when they join a UFO   
   specialist for a Lake Monduran expedition in hopes for an ...   
      
   NASA's UFO panel convenes to study unclassified sightings   
   Reuters on MSN.com, 25 Oct 2022 0:42Z   
   A first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a study on Mon   
   of what the govt calls "unidentified aerial ...   
   [The committee's function apparently is to define what or what not is   
   to be considered a UFO when e.g. military personnel or pilots make   
   reports to relevant organisations. Now that laws are almost in place   
   contractors and military personnel with high security clearance will   
   be able to report sightings of unusual things to the Pentagon's UFO   
   office. Until now it was a crime to report such things to anyone, even   
   other departments of the same organisation. However, exactly what shape   
   or color or flight characteristics UFO's have been observed to have is   
   a US state secret and routinely redacted from FOIA requests.  But as a   
   quasi military organisations NASA will be used to these myriad of   
   interacting Catch 22 situations and will have the appropriate hurry up   
   and wait 100 point plan ready to go].   
      
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