UFOs in videos being investigated by the Pentagon appear to “defy physics”, according to a new study.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is the lead author of a paper, which claims the unidentified flying objects captured on camera behave in strange ways.
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Director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Sean Kirpatrick also worked on the study.
It’s yet to be reviewed by other scientists but does make some striking points.
UFOs are referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) throughout the study.
It’s a term that’s been adopted more by scientists who think the term UFO has a stigma attached to it.
Kirpatrick and Loeb investigated the friction that they expected to see in the UAP clips.
A fast-moving object and the air or water surrounding it should move in a certain way, according to the laws of physics scientists have agreed upon.
However, Kirpatrick and Loeb noted that the way the UAPs were moving they are “expected to generate a bright optical fireball”.
The lack of fireball in the videos has baffled the scientists.
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It’s unclear why the objects don’t behave as they should.
It could be down to something as simple as bad measuring tools.
The researchers wrote: “The lack of all these signatures could imply inaccurate distance measurements (and hence derived velocity) for single site sensors without a range gate capability.”
This is a fairly tame conclusion from Loeb who has previously suggested that “alien probes” could be tracking us.
Loeb wrote a report for Scientific American detailing his theory.
He said: “If some UAP turn out to be extraterrestrial technology, they could be dropping sensors for a subsequent craft to tune into.”
