Unidentified aerial phenomena II. Evaluation of UAP properties

TL;DR

This study reports the detection and analysis of unidentified luminous objects in the sky, observed through multi-color camera monitoring, with characteristics suggesting large, fast-moving dark objects of unknown origin.

Contribution

The paper presents new observational data on UAP, including detection of high-altitude luminous objects and dark phantom objects, using ground-based multi-sensor sky monitoring.

Findings

Detection of luminous objects at 620 and 1130 km altitude

Observation of dark phantom objects ranging from 20 to 100 meters

Objects exhibit high speeds up to 256 km/s

Abstract

NASA commissioned a research team to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), observations of events that cannot scientifically be identified as known natural phenomena. The Main Astronomical Observatory of NAS of Ukraine conducts an independent study of UAP also. For UAP observations, we used two meteor stations installed in Kyiv and in the Vinarivka village in the south of the Kyiv region. Two-side monitoring of the daytime sky led to the detection of two luminous objects at an altitude of 620 and 1130 km, moving at a speed of 256 and 78 km/s. Colorimetric analysis showed that the objects are dark: B - V = 1.35, V - R = 0.23. The size of objects is estimated to be more than 100 meters. The detection of these objects is an experimental fact. Estimates of their characteristics follow from observational data. The authors do not interpret these objects. Daytime sky monitoring in Kyiv with multi-color DSLR camera at a rate of 30 frames per second in August and September 2018 and in Vinarivka with a multi-color CMOS camera in October 2022 revealed several cases of dark objects (phantoms). The time of their existence is, as a rule, a fraction of a second. These are oval-shaped objects ranging in size from 20 to 100 meters with speeds from 2 to 30 km/s.