Carl Kruse and the Carl Kruse Nonprofits Blog are sponsoring the upcoming online chat held by the SETI Institute, namely “UAPs: Are They Worth Scientific Attention”, which is slated for Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:00PM PST. This event is covered by posts on this blog and this other blog.
The SETI institute has invited Dr. Jacob Haqq Misra, SETI astronomer and senior research investigator at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, and Dr. Ravi Kopparapu, planetary scientist and an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to discuss and investigate UAPs (namely Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). Often referred to as UFO’s and associated with paranormal or pseudoscientific beliefs, the focus of the discussion will be on whether scientists should focus more on the investigation of these phenomena.
The analysis of recent UAP sightings, as detailed in a recent U.S. Navy report of June 2021, have failed to generate attention in the scientific panorama. This U.S. Department of Defense report mentioned that UAPs were definitively not caused by any U.S. advanced technology programs. But went on to say that there is also no evidence that these objects came from outer space.
sThe question arises: what are they then, and where do they come from? Earthly or other worldly? If we try to discard the taboo surrounding this phenomena, such as paranormal theories and fake news, even discarding their possible extraterrestrial origin hypothesis, the participants of the chat argue that genuine scientific inquiry is needed to understand this phenomena. We actually don’t know much about it, and this is the reason why scientists should care more about studying them and finding a explanatory answer to this inquiry. While Carl Kruse and the Carl Kruse Blog are sponsoring this chat, they make clear that it is their position that UAPs are probably not extraterrestrial in origin.
SETI Talks are presented to the audience at no cost, and are supported by independent contributors. The chat is exclusively online, so make sure to register in order to have access to this event.
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