Does anybody remember NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Independent Study Team (UAPIST)? This was a board of experts set up in 2022 to get to the bottom of the UAP mystery. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_Independent_Study_Team I have some questions. First of all, why would NASA, of all agencies, suddenly take such an interest in blurry UAP videos? After all, the agency has spent nearly all of its history vehemently denying and pouring cold water on UFO-related claims. All of the sudden in 2022, they convened some of their top scientists to look seriously at the data (in partnership with AARO, another strange government-mandated agency). Even more questions: after diving in head-first to the UAP mystery and spending over a year to analyse the evidence provided from AARO, NASA hosts a big press conference to call it a big nothingburger. NOBODY was asking NASA to jump in to the UAP issue. They could have kept their hands clean from the whole topic, preserved their scientific reputation and done nothing. For discussion: I believe that the purpose of the NASA panel was originally intended as a step in 'soft disclosure'. Its purpose was to lend credibility to some of the mysterious observed cases such as David Fravor / Nimitz in 2004, and subsequent Navy evidence gathered from the East Coast. But something changed in the interim that spooked them. Maybe David Grusch's surprise testimony in summer 2023 caused the government to park their plans for limited disclosure, fearing that there would be too many questions beyond what they were prepared to answer. Anyway, I found the whole NASA / Bill Nelson / UAPIST saga very strange. submitted by /u/King_of_Ooo [link] [comments]