UAP

UAP means unidentified anomalous phenomena. Before that, the official phrase was unidentified aerial phenomena, and before that the public said UFO. Anomalous replaced aerial because the reports are not only things in the air. They are anything a sensor or a witness could not identify.

Governments adopted UAP so a report could be written without saying the object was a craft, or that anyone was in it. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, AARO, is the office that receives the reports. The files themselves are published under PURSUE.

The term you will hear now beside UAP is non-human intelligence, often shortened to NHI. UAP does not say that. It only says the phenomenon has not been identified. Unresolved, the word on the official count, means the office could not explain the report. It is not a finding that the report was non-human.

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