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Are They Here? with NASA UAP Chair, David Spergel

StarTalk Radio

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What It Means to Be Anomalous in the First Place

Matt Berg: My students and I discuss the importance of basing final conclusions on accumulated data. When looking at a data set, at what point does a piece of data move from what is considered to be an anomaly to something that is just considered part of the data set overall and an expected result? Mm. So I think in a sense, once you can explain it, it's not anomalous. Right. Those that Chinese balloon is not a UAP anymore. It was when it was first seen. We didn't know what it was. It's like a real phenomenon. Ironically, it was copied off of the those balloons that Google was, was, was designed in the US

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