NASA Commissions Independent UAP Study Team in 2022
On June Embedded within that programmatic review was an announcement that reframed how the civilian space agency would approach a subject long associated with speculation: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The document states that NASA is commissioning a UAP Independent Study Team to examine UAP from a scientific perspective, focusing on how NASA can use data and the tools of science to move understanding forward. The framing is deliberate.
The study is described as open, independent, and unclassified, and NASA will commission the team to deliver an independent report that the agency will subsequently publish. This is not an intelligence assessment, nor a classified review conducted behind closed doors; it is positioned as a scientific inquiry operating under NASA's stated principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity. The presentation grounds the effort in concrete observations.
It notes there have been over 400 reports of UAP, that UAP clearly pose a safety of…