A contentious Ukrainian UAP study that allegedly captured images of unidentified aerial objects has been taken to task by Ukrainian astronomers, according to a recent statement released by the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MAO NASU).
The preprint study by B.E. Zhilyaev, V.N. Petukhov, and V.M. Reshetnyk, originally uploaded to the open access arXiv.org website, claimed to have detected “a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear.”
“For UAP observations, we used two meteor stations,” a portion of the study’s abstract states. “Observations were performed with colour video cameras in the daytime sky,” the authors wrote, adding that the Ukrainian team had employed a special technique for “detecting and evaluating UAP characteristics.”
First reported in an article by The Debrief in August, our publication noted that “the authors do not propose any possible explanations or hypotheses regarding the objects and their appearance or whether they could have mundane underlying sources.”
Critical analysis of the Ukranian UAP study and several images it contained thereafter appeared on the Metabunk website in a post by Mick West, the site’s creator, who questioned the distances of the objects cited by the study authors and noted their similarity to insects photographed under similar conditions.
Now, citing similar issues with the study, it has been learned that its findings were rebuked during a September meeting by the MAO NASU Scientific Council, according to a statement appearing on the observatory’s website.
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