NASA claims it has debunked a famous alleged UFO sighting, known as the “GoFast” video, but some scientists are not buying the space agency’s rationale.
In a report issued Thursday, a UFO video recorded by Navy pilots “gives an impression of an object skimming above the ocean at a great velocity,” but NASA says data “reveals a less extraordinary interpretation.”
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“This indicates that the object is colder than the ocean. There is thus no evidence of heat produced by a propulsion system. This further supports the conjecture that the object is most likely drifting with the wind,” NASA said in its report.
The findings do note that calculations by the space agency “neglected wind effects on the aircraft” and that because of that “there is uncertainty in this result.” They conclude, however, that the object’s movement is based on the wind but did say the “availability of additional data would enable a more firm conclusion about the nature of this object.”
French UFO researcher Christophe Spitzer Isbert told the Daily Mail that NASA should have been more detailed in its research before reaching a conclusion on the “GoFast” video.
“A small set of assumptions replaced hypothesis testing,” Isbert said to the outlet. “Assuming the object was lighter than air because it was slow and did not radiate heat does not constitute evidence to support the balloon hypothesis.”
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the biggest takeaway from the report was that there is no evidence UFOs have extraterrestrial origin but that there is still more to learn.
“The top takeaway from the study is that there is a lot more to learn,” Nelson said at a briefing on Thursday. “The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that [unidentified aerial phenomena] have an extraterrestrial origin. But we don’t know what these UAP are.”
