NASA's UAP Independent Study hub is the agency's central page for official study materials, including the final report, report media briefing, May 31, 2023 public meeting notice, agenda, Federal Register notice, teleconference and meeting recordings, public presentations, principles, statement of task, appointment language, and Terms of Reference.1
NASA announced the study on June 9, 2022 to examine unidentified aerial phenomena from a scientific perspective, and the signed Terms of Reference established the independent study team as a subordinate group of the Earth Science Advisory Committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.23
NASA announced 16 study-team members on October 21, 2022, with David Spergel as chair and Daniel Evans as the NASA official responsible for orchestrating the work, and said the study would focus solely on unclassified data from civilian government entities, commercial sources, and other sources.4
The public meeting record matters because NASA framed the May 31, 2023 session as a public final-deliberation step before the report, while the Federal Register notice described a meeting for scientific and technical information relevant to program planning.56
NASA published the final report on September 14, 2023, and the report recommended that NASA use open data practices, artificial intelligence, machine learning, federal and commercial partnerships, Earth-observing assets, curated repositories, and public data analysis to improve future UAP study.78
This link matters because it gives researchers the official NASA independent study doorway, report, public-meeting materials, briefing context, and public-science framing instead of a secondary summary of NASA's UAP work.189
NASA's release also named Mark McInerney as director of UAP Research, described a role for centralizing communications and data analytical capabilities, and repeated the study team's finding that limited high-quality observations prevented firm scientific conclusions about UAP nature.9