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   SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket, launches US military   
   satellites in 1st flight in 3 years   
   Space.com, 01 Nov 2022 22:25Z   
   SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, which consists of 3 of the company's   
   modified Falcon 9 first-stage boosters strapped ...   
      
   In other news the Black Vault has uncovered a brief related paper   
   from NASA's UFO research group's chair.   
   David Spergel's 4-page paper on "terrestrial or extraterrestrial"   
   briefly considers the question -- suggesting many have the   
   characteristics of Russian & Chinese hypersonic weapons -- and seems to   
   come down on the side of "not enough data" and needing to build special   
   all-sky cameras to watch the skies for unusual things.   
   Apparently all the high precision super satellites NASA currently run   
   have seen nothing unusual; not even hypersonic missiles taking off   
   from Russia or China.   
      
   --   
   "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].   
      
   Canadian Government Releases New Details On UFO Incidents, Some Where   
   Fighter Jets Were Scrambled   
   BroBible, 01 Nov 2022 14:41Z   
   With the United States govt and NASA showing a newfound interest in at   
   least appearing to take UFOs seriously, other ...   
      
   [Still In Denial:]   
   Pentagon attributes UFO sightings to spies, airborne trash   
   Military Times, 01 Nov 2022 0:48Z   
   Today, intelligence officials are set to deliver Congress with a new report   
   on unexplained aerial phenomenon, better known as ...   
      
   UFOs: Canadian air force responds to 'threats' with CF-18 fighter jets   
   CTV News, 31 Oct 2022 20:28Z   
   While the Canadian govt and military usually don't respond to reports   
   of unidentified flying objects, there have been ...   
      
   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 ...   
      
   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 ...   
      
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