Some UAP Sightings Don't Fit Current Physics, Pentagon And Harvard Experts Say

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The Pentagon and a Harvard astronomer — who is also an outspoken believer in the possibility alien probes have visited our solar system — have teamed up to call for a more rigorous approach to evaluating unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, sightings.

Yes, this is the new term for what we once called UFOs or flying saucers.

Harvard’s Avi Loeb and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) co-authored and shared a draft of a scientific paper still undergoing peer review. The paper attempts to use physics to rule out a number of UAP sightings that appear to be “highly maneuverable” objects.

In a nutshell, Loeb and Kirkpatrick find that if some of the UAP really were moving in the seemingly impossible directions and speeds that they appear to be, the friction involved should generate a visible fireball and a corresponding radio signature visible via radar.

“The lack of all these signatures could imply inaccurate distance measurements (and hence derived velocity) for single site sensors,” the paper concludes.