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In July 2016 they caught a break when one of Donovan’s panoramic “all-sky” cameras in Saskatchewan caught an instance of Steve in action.

Quite the contrary: by seeking to flag anomalous, unexplained occurrences in NASA’s data, scientists are at least as likely to discover new, exotic-but-earthly atmospheric phenomena as they are to find any credible evidence of extraterrestrial visitors-especially if they also can leverage ground sightings from the general public, as Donovan ultimately did with Steve.Īfter naming the phenomenon, Donovan and his colleagues hoped to pin down Steve by seeing it cross their data streams from satellites and atmospheric sensors, then linking that same occurrence with pictures snapped by cameras on the ground. One would be mistaken, however, to think this could only impact sci-fi-tinged searches for patrolling alien spacecraft. Both NASA and the scientist leading the study, Princeton University astrophysicist and Simons Foundation president David Spergel, declined to comment for this story.īut no official responses or endorsements are needed to affirm the obvious: the huge volumes of data from NASA’s sprawling network of past and present Earth-observation satellites could be a treasure trove for UAP research. Its goal is to identify data-information that has already been gathered, or that could be in the future, from NASA and outside organizations-and analysis techniques that might advance the scientific understanding of UAPs. For nearly a year-and on a relatively meager total budget of circa $100,000-eight to 12 experts will work on the UAP Independent Study. military personnel, NASA announced that it was initiating a modest study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).

#NASA RECENT UFO SIGHTINGS SERIES#

In early June, spurred by a series of highly publicized UFO sightings documented by U.S. The narrative of Steve-people notice something strange in the heavens above and dig deeper-could someday play out similarly in the space agency’s efforts to learn more about unidentified things in Earth’s atmosphere. That’s also the thrust of a new NASA project that aims to study UFOs. Soon Donovan and his scientific colleagues teamed up with the aurora chasers to try to track down more apparitions of Steve-to observe it, attempt to understand the mechanism behind it and change an unknown into a known.

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So he and the aurora chasers started calling the phenomenon Steve, after a name a group of animals give to shrubbery they don’t understand in the children’s movie Over the Hedge.

Looking at the photograph, Donovan realized the lights actually lived in an “unidentified” bucket that he didn’t understand.

Images of it look otherworldly-the sort of thing one might see in an alien planet’s sky.

Following a discussion, one attendee showed him a shot of the same sort of purple arc that Donovan had noticed over the years. Over beers, members of the Alberta Aurora Chasers were showing off their pictures. That changed when he found himself at a bar with a group of amateur aurora photographers after a science talk. “I put it into some bucket that I understood,” he says. It was atypical, but he didn’t give it too much thought. Across his years of studying auroras, University of Calgary physicist Eric Donovan had periodically seen pictures and data showing something strange: a curve of purple light swiping across the sky, linear green features glowing beneath.

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