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originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: putnam6
Did you say funding?
a re-post….
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The panel finds that public engagement in the effort to better understand UAP will be vital.
NASA, by lending its name to UAP studies, is already helping to reduce stigma associated
with reporting. Beyond this, we recommend that NASA explore the viability of developing
or acquiring a crowdsourcing system, such as open-source smartphone-based apps, to
gather imaging data and other smartphone sensor data from multiple citizen observers
as part of a wider effort to more systematically gather public UAP reports.
Lastly, we recommend that the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) for commercial
pilot UAP reporting be better leveraged, providing a critical database for the whole-ofgovernment effort to understand UAP. The agency's long history of partnership with the
FAA should also be capitalized to investigate how advanced, real-time analysis techniques
could be applied to future generations of air traffic management (ATM) systems.
In conclusion, NASA is uniquely positioned to contribute to a robust and systematic
approach to studying UAP, furthering its mission of advancing scientific knowledge,
technical expertise, and exploration. When considering the above recommendations, and
according to budget priorities, NASA should leverage its core capabilities and expertise
to determine whether it should take a leading or supporting role in implementing a given
recommendation. The positioning of NASA’s role should further be situated within the
context of the broader whole-of-government approach to understanding UAP
NASA will receive $25.4 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2023. This is roughly $1.3 billion more than NASA received in 2022, an increase of 5.6%. High inflation and growing labor costs will mitigate the purchasing power of this increase.
www.planetary.org...#:~:text=NASA%20will%20receive%20%2425.4%20billion,purchasing%20power%20of%20this%20increas e.
Each year federal agencies receive funding from Congress, known as budgetary resources . In FY 2023, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had $33.04 Billion distributed among its 1 sub-components. Agencies spend available budgetary resources by making financial promises called obligations.
How much has this agency planned to spend (2023)?
$21.67 Billion in total obligations
65.6% of total budgetary resources
www.usaspending.gov...
originally posted by: Mantiss2021
a reply to: putnam6
You will never find what you are not looking for.
NASA has never been tasked with examining UFO/UAP phenomenon; it has never been part of their job, and since funding for their actual job is tightly controlled, and constantly scrutinized, NASA has never, officially, given any but passing thought to the subject.
Search for life in the Cosmos, sure, when specifically funded. But to go off on investigations of "reports" of phenomenon they, themselves, did not thoroughly monitor and could account for....that would be too much of a risk to their "job description".
Besides, what NASA discovers is supposed to be made available to the entire scientific community, and thus, by extension, the public. It would be very compromising if they were to "discover" something that the military and/or the intelligence community wanted to keep secret. Just imagine the consequences if, say NASA satellites had tracked SR-71 flights over Russia and China airspaces...then disclosed that information to the public as "evidence of unidentified aerial phenomenon".
originally posted by: ARM1986
Did anyone expect any honesty from NASA? Seems they’re still towing some odd party line. They’ve known since the early days. Will just do their best to deny and rubbish everything.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Something about small beady eyes….that are to small for their eye sockets…..I just don’t get the warm and fuzzy….
Bill Nelson and Kit Green
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