Canada needs a transparent and public agency in charge of administering reports of disconcerting things seen of launching, flashing or floating through our skies, according to a new report commissioned by the main scientist of Canada.
The Sky Canada project report published this week requires a federal framework to manage UFO sightings by the public and pilots as a replacement for the current protocols mosaics in all departments that “hinder[s] Scientific research “.
“There is some evidence that there is something really unusual in the skies … we simply have enough information,” said the scientific writer based in Winnipeg, Chris Rutkowski, director of the long survey of Canadian UFOs that was consulted for the report.
The Sky Canada project was created in 2022 by the Office of the Chief Sciences Advisor of Mona Nemer, partly in response to the growing public interest in the subject of UFOs, also known as UAP, or anomalous phenomena or unidentified aerial phenomena.
The staff set out to identify challenges related to data collection in UAP sightings and provide a summary of how other countries address the problem.
The project had the task of making an environmental scan of practices of historical reports throughout the federal government and the current UAP procedures of different federal agencies, and consulting groups and experts in the country that track and receive reports from UAP from the public.
The report found that the “fragmented UAP reports of Canada in all departments” complicates the application of scientific principles … making it onerous, if not impossible, for researchers to access and compile data for a rigorous analysis and based on science. “
“Canada would benefit from an improved process to inform, collect and study UAP sightings,” says a section of the report.
Canada had a centralized office for that led by the National Research Council from 1967, with the help of the RCMP.
That is the same year one of the best documented UFO cases in Canada emerged in Falcon Lake, man.
The NRC effort ended in 1995. The roles and responsibilities dispersed between the Canadian space agency, Transport Canada, Navcanada, and Rutkowski, who accumulated vast records of civil, military, police and air traffic controlle controllers that go back to the 1940s that Sky Canada has used in its analysis.
No definitive test of ET
In recent years, NASA has conducted an independent UAP study; The United States Office of the Secretary of Defense erected the Office of Resolution of All Domain Anomalies (AARO) to investigate the UAP reports of military personnel; And the Congress has held multiple public hearings focused on national security concerns raised by UAP and assumptions of government coverings.
Most UAP sightings are airplanes, atmospheric conditions, planets or stars or meteors, satellites, weather balloons, drones, experimental crafts, optical illusions or other worldly phenomena.
To date, there is still no evidence that definitely demonstrates that extraterrestrial life is here or exists, says the Sky Canada report.
“However, some UAP sightings, for which there are data, remain inexplicable even after the investigation,” says the report.
That uncertainty adds to the cultural fascination around UAP.
“Some interesting things are reported,” Rutkowski said. “Not necessarily proves that aliens are visiting us. It shows that some unusual cases are disconcerting.”
Dissipation dissinformation
The report also identifies the need to increase transparency and develop public confidence through the proactive dissemination of the details of the UAP case in an effort to combat erroneous misinformation and misinformation, and “pre-mother” conspiracy theories before they spread.
“Everyone loves the idea of looking for UFOs or UAP,” said Sara Seager, a Canadian-American astrophysics in the mit focused on the search for land similar planets.
“Taking that on a way to educate people about wrong information, about challenging their own assumptions … I had never thought about the field before, and that was something really exciting new to me.”
The report suggests that the Canadian space agency could be a good option to lead UAP’s public management.
Seaguer believes that a post -secondary institution could be more appropriate.
“Universities are accustomed to educating people, so there are perhaps a way that they can, as the report says, analyze this in some type of reach on the planets and stars and natural phenomena,” said Seaguer, who was not involved in the report.
Report appoint the Harvard UAP team
Sky Canada never set out to demonstrate if we are alone in the universe, says the report, nor that project was in particular to analyze sighting data.
Astrophysic Avi Loeb is looking for evidence of alien technology within the atmosphere of the Earth and our solar system through a data -based approach.
Loeb was not involved in the report either. However, his work as head of the Harvard Galileo Project was summoned by the Sky Canada project as an initiative that could be “crucial in the transition of anecdotal evidence to a more rigorous scientific analysis” of UAP.
This project will have three observatories built only in different US states. At the end they use sensors and automatic learning to detect and measure the speed, size, relative distance and other variables of the UAP revision around the US airspace, including balloons or crafts of rival governments that participate in espionage.
“The software we develop, the sensors we gather can be used by the Department of Defense if they are objects of human manufacture, so I would not feel that I was losing my time if we ended up finding only objects made by humans,” said Loeb.
“This issue, of course, touches national security for Canada and the United States and I think cooperation would be highly appreciated.”
Rutkowski appreciates Sky Canada’s calls to encourage pilots to inform and for more science on a subject that sometimes sometimes at stigma moments and a “ridiculous factor.”
“Things are looking up and you know, there is no doubt that the truth is outside,” he said. “Unfortunately, we are trapped here.”
