NASA is holding a public meeting of the independent research team this Wednesday to discuss unidentified aerial phenomena.

Last year, the organization formed the committee to that end and its deliberations were set to be presented, though a final report is yet to be released.

“Outlining how to assess and study UAP using data, technology and the tools of science is a NASA priority. It is not an assessment or evaluation of previous unidentifiable observations,” the organization explained.

During their interventions, it was emphasized that there is still insufficient quality information about these phenomena. “This lack of high-quality data makes it impossible to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of UAPs,” said Nicola Fox, science director for the NASA program.

Fox explained that the data the think tank studied is unclassified and comes from “civil government agencies”, the private sector and “other sources”.

NASA has changed the nomenclature for unidentified flying objects (UFOs) to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

The difference with the previous term is that these do not refer to objects but to any atmospheric phenomenon that occurs.

Astrophysicist David Spergel, head of the team, said the origin of the UAP is not clear and “we fear that many events like this go unreported.”

However, he clarified that even with access to better data, “there is no guarantee that every observation can be explained.”

The Department of Defense established an agency in mid-2022 to analyze and collect data on UFO encounters or similar phenomena.