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The prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has established an Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Community of Interest.

Its mission is to improve aviation safety by enhancing scientific knowledge of, and mitigating barriers to, the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

AIAA represents 30,000 aerospace professionals.

Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18F pilot, is the first Chair of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Community of Interest.

Study teams

The AIAA study group is focused on team building in a trio of UAP topics:

• Hardware Factors: Serves as a neutral focal point enhancing activities that integrate aviation safety related UAP data and analysis into relevant scientific/engineering aspects of aviation development, design, and safety planning across the aviation/space systems environment.
• Outreach: Interacts with appropriate AIAA Committees, government agencies, academic institutions, and international researchers and organizations associated with the scientific/engineering study and understanding of UAP.
• Human Factors: Engages with the scientific and engineering research community to assist with educating the Aerospace community relative to aerospace safety factors of UAP.

FLIR
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GOFAST
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GIMBAL/“Tic Tac”
Credit: DOD/U.S. Navy/Inside Outer Space screengrab

What’s in our skies?

“As we further our understanding of what’s in our skies,” Graves said in a website posting, “we must ensure timely access to these new safety insights across the military, commercial, and general aviation safety landscapes. It will take a diverse set of skills to advance our mission to enable us to reduce stigma, increase reporting, and integrate the findings into air and space policies.”

Graves in an AIAA statement notes that as a former LT U.S. Navy F/A-18F pilot, “I have experienced first-hand the persistent risk to aerospace safety posed by UAP.”

AIAA can apply its technical skill sets, Graves added, to improve aerospace safety and our understanding of UAP.

“The AIAA believes there is an urgent and critical imperative to improve aerospace safety by improving scientific knowledge and study of UAP,” Graves added.”

Volunteer status

In an AIAA statement sent to Inside Outer Space regarding the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) Community of Interest (COI), this group was approved in 2022 “to facilitate interested parties to exchange ideas on the topic.”

A small group of AIAA members have volunteered to lead the group.

“The UAP COI is focused on improving aviation safety by enhancing scientific knowledge of, and mitigating barriers to, the study of UAP. They do this through presenting material at AIAA forums and maintaining an active dialogue among members,” the AIAA statement explains.

Leaders of the UAP COI are acting in a volunteer role “and they do not represent AIAA nor its membership as official spokespeople. Their opinions are their own and not that of the Institute overall and should not be attributed to AIAA,” the statement concludes.

For more information on the AIAA UAP study group, go to:

https://www.aiaauap.org/

For an overview article — ‘New territory’: America’s top aerospace sleuths join UFO hunt -the country’s largest organization of technical experts has concluded that recent incursions pose a safety hazard to aircraft in Politico, go to:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/new-territory-americas-top-aerospace-sleuths-join-ufo-hunt-00062588

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