War.gov/UFO - Department of War Releases UAP Files - 2026 Release 1

[jarlrmai]

Do you think only the military operates instruments that gather data?

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

Do you think only the military operates instruments that gather data?

Of course not. But there is a fundamental difference between civilian scientific instruments and tactical surveillance networks.
Academic institutions point telescopes at specific deep-space targets for astrophysics or track known orbital satellites; they do not operate all-sky, low-altitude air defense radar networks or classified early-warning satellite constellations. Airspace monitoring is a matter of national sovereignty, strictly managed by military and aviation authorities who do not share raw, classified telemetry with civilian universities.
As far as I know, this is something civilian science simply hasn't done in 80 years of history.

 

[jarlrmai]

Of course not. But there is a fundamental difference between civilian scientific instruments and tactical surveillance networks.
Academic institutions point telescopes at specific deep-space targets for astrophysics or track known orbital satellites; they do not operate all-sky, low-altitude air defense radar networks or classified early-warning satellite constellations. Airspace monitoring is a matter of national sovereignty, strictly managed by military and aviation authorities who do not share raw, classified telemetry with civilian universities.
As far as I know, this is something civilian science simply hasn't done in 80 years of history.

Astronomy is not limited to deep space there's a lot of wide angle astronomy;

Vera C. Rubin, ZTF for transients (at Palomar ala the recent controversial transients linked to nuclear tests study), Pan-STARRS, ATLAS etc

Then there's web camera networks, volcano/wildlife etc monitoring cameras, weather RADAR and ocean/climate stations that are non military.

Not to mention billions of people now with camera phones, of course they are less capable than military systems however it seems likely there would be SOME data that would stick out somewhere, especially given the application of current consumer/commerical technology to the same type of encounters reported and recorded many decades ago when there was much less and lower quality recording technology around.

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

Astronomy is not limited to deep space there's a lot of wide angle astronomy;

Vera C. Rubin, ZTF for transients (at Palomar ala the recent controversial transients linked to nuclear tests study), Pan-STARRS, ATLAS etc

Then there's web camera networks, volcano/wildlife etc monitoring cameras, weather RADAR and ocean/climate stations that are non military.

Not to mention billions of people now with camera phones, of course they are less capable than military systems however it seems likely there would be SOME data that would stick out somewhere, especially given the application of current consumer/commerical technology to the same type of encounters reported and recorded many decades ago when there was much less and lower quality recording technology around.

I see your point.

However, none of those systems are calibrated to track atmospheric anomalies. Wide-angle astronomy looks for deep-space transients, weather radars filter out aircraft-sized clutter, and consumer cameras lack telemetry.
That is precisely why the NASA UAP Report explicitly stated that UAP analysis is hampered by "poor sensor calibration, the lack of multiple measurements, and the lack of baseline data."
If civilian networks or commercial tech were sufficient, NASA wouldn't have concluded that science completely lacks the necessary baseline data.