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was founded specifically to collect and document these incidents and offer its findings in a public and transparent manner. Given that pilots do report aerial phenomena that they describe as structured objects, NARCAP feels it is appropriate to give attention to the witness’ description of what was seen or detected and engage it objectively. The answers to the questions regarding the existence, source and nature of the subcategory of UAP referred to as UFO will be found in the data. NARCAP feels the term “UAP” more accurately reflects the broad scope of descriptions in aviation reports as well as the possibility that these phenomena may arise from several different sources.

Many are simply described as unusual lights. The term “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or UAP is an attempt to address the fact that not all UAP are described as unidentified flying objects or UFO.

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“An unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) is the visual stimulus that provokes a sighting report of an object or light seen in the sky, the appearance and/or flight dynamics of which do not suggest a logical, conventional flying object and which remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making both a full technical identification as well as a common-sense identification, if one is possible. It means that AFTER examination by those qualified to make a determination and in the presence of enough data to make a determination, it remains unidentified.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAP are not simply something that a pilot could not identify.

Aerial phenomena definition