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author Knuth, Kevin H.
Ailleris, Philippe
Agrama, Hussein Ali
Ansbro, Eamonn
Budinger, Phyllis A.
Cai, Tejin
Canuti, Thibaut
Cifone, Michael C.
Cornet Jr., Walter Bruce
Courtade, Frédéric
Dolan, Richard
Domine, Laura
Dini, Luc
Friscourt, Baptiste
Graves, Ryan
Haines, Richard F.
Hoffman, Richard
Kayal, Hakan
Little, Sarah
Nolan, Garry P.
Powell, Robert
Rodeghier, Mark
Russo, Edoardo
Skafish, Peter
Strand, Erling
Swords, Michael
Szydagis, Matthew
Tedesco, Gerald T.
Tedesco, John J.
Teodorani, Massimo
Vallée, Jacques
Vaillant, Michaël
Villarroel, Beatriz
Watters, Wesley A.
Analysis, Frontier
Ltd.
Network, Mutual UFO
MUFON, Ohio
Studies, Center for UFO
author_facet Knuth, Kevin H.
Ailleris, Philippe
Agrama, Hussein Ali
Ansbro, Eamonn
Budinger, Phyllis A.
Cai, Tejin
Canuti, Thibaut
Cifone, Michael C.
Cornet Jr., Walter Bruce
Courtade, Frédéric
Dolan, Richard
Domine, Laura
Dini, Luc
Friscourt, Baptiste
Graves, Ryan
Haines, Richard F.
Hoffman, Richard
Kayal, Hakan
Little, Sarah
Nolan, Garry P.
Powell, Robert
Rodeghier, Mark
Russo, Edoardo
Skafish, Peter
Strand, Erling
Swords, Michael
Szydagis, Matthew
Tedesco, Gerald T.
Tedesco, John J.
Teodorani, Massimo
Vallée, Jacques
Vaillant, Michaël
Villarroel, Beatriz
Watters, Wesley A.
Analysis, Frontier
Ltd.
Network, Mutual UFO
MUFON, Ohio
Studies, Center for UFO
contents After decades of dismissal and secrecy, it has become clear that a significant number of the world's governments take Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP), formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), seriously -- yet still seem to know little about them. As a result, these phenomena are increasingly attracting the attention of scientists around the world, some of whom have recently formed research efforts to monitor and scientifically study UAP. In this paper, we review and summarize approximately 20 historical government studies dating from 1933 to the present (in Scandinavia, WWII, US, Canada, France, Russia, China), several historical private research studies (France, UK, US), and both recent and current scientific research efforts (Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, US). In doing so, our objective is to clarify the existing global and historical scientific narrative around UAP. Studies range from field station development and deployment to the collection and analysis of witness reports from around the world. We dispel the common misconception that UAPs are an American phenomenon and show that UAP can be, and have been, scientifically investigated. Our aim here is to enable future studies to draw on the great depth of prior documented experience.
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spellingShingle The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)
Knuth, Kevin H.
Ailleris, Philippe
Agrama, Hussein Ali
Ansbro, Eamonn
Budinger, Phyllis A.
Cai, Tejin
Canuti, Thibaut
Cifone, Michael C.
Cornet Jr., Walter Bruce
Courtade, Frédéric
Dolan, Richard
Domine, Laura
Dini, Luc
Friscourt, Baptiste
Graves, Ryan
Haines, Richard F.
Hoffman, Richard
Kayal, Hakan
Little, Sarah
Nolan, Garry P.
Powell, Robert
Rodeghier, Mark
Russo, Edoardo
Skafish, Peter
Strand, Erling
Swords, Michael
Szydagis, Matthew
Tedesco, Gerald T.
Tedesco, John J.
Teodorani, Massimo
Vallée, Jacques
Vaillant, Michaël
Villarroel, Beatriz
Watters, Wesley A.
Analysis, Frontier
Ltd.
Network, Mutual UFO
MUFON, Ohio
Studies, Center for UFO
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Popular Physics
After decades of dismissal and secrecy, it has become clear that a significant number of the world's governments take Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP), formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), seriously -- yet still seem to know little about them. As a result, these phenomena are increasingly attracting the attention of scientists around the world, some of whom have recently formed research efforts to monitor and scientifically study UAP. In this paper, we review and summarize approximately 20 historical government studies dating from 1933 to the present (in Scandinavia, WWII, US, Canada, France, Russia, China), several historical private research studies (France, UK, US), and both recent and current scientific research efforts (Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, US). In doing so, our objective is to clarify the existing global and historical scientific narrative around UAP. Studies range from field station development and deployment to the collection and analysis of witness reports from around the world. We dispel the common misconception that UAPs are an American phenomenon and show that UAP can be, and have been, scientifically investigated. Our aim here is to enable future studies to draw on the great depth of prior documented experience.
title The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Popular Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794