Controversial Ukrainian UAP study shot down in statement by scientific council

A contentious Ukrainian UAP study that allegedly captured images of unidentified aerial objects has been taken to task by Ukrainian astronomers, according to a recent statement released by the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MAO NASU).

The preprint study by B.E. Zhilyaev, V.N. Petukhov, and V.M. Reshetnyk, originally uploaded to the open access arXiv.org website, claimed to have detected “a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear.”

“For UAP observations, we used two meteor stations,” a portion of the study’s abstract states. “Observations were performed with colour video cameras in the daytime sky,” the authors wrote, adding that the Ukrainian team had employed a special technique for “detecting and evaluating UAP characteristics.”