The opportunity to encounter exotic phenomena makes life thrilling. In contrast, the boring routine is to meet the mundane. We crave for the exotic over the mundane. Because of this tendency, Richard Feynman warned: “We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself.” This pearl of wisdom cautions not to get carried away with the interpretation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

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The Galileo Project that I am leading just posted last week a new extensive paper that describes a detailed careful analysis of commissioning data on half a million aerial objects, collected over a period of five months. The paper was posted on this webpage. In the coming months, our research team will attempt to triangulate outliers and figure out whether they are exotic or mundane based on their measured distances.

Two days ago, the new director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Jon Kosloski, stated in a U.S. Senate hearing: “We do have some very anomalous objects… Many reports resolve to commonplace objects like birds, balloons and unmanned systems, while others lack sufficient data for comprehensive analysis… only a small percentage of reports received by AARO are potentially anomalous.” Kosloski mentioned a UAP observed in 2013 near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.