Thirty years ago, a distinguished group formally met for the first time in Las Vegas to advise the newly formed National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS).
Known as the NIDS Science Advisory Board, this organization set the standard for future UFO/UAP and unusual phenomena investigations.
Below is a sample of statements, articles, and interviews from 8 News Now with members of this committee:
Physicist Dr. Eric Davis sent us a statement on the impact of NIDS on the anniversary of the first Science Advisory Board Meeting:
“The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) in Las Vegas, NV was the first professional scientific research institute in the United States that was devoted to the exploration and investigation of UAP and other anomalous phenomena during 1995-2004.
NIDS had four world-class Ph.D. scientists on staff, a world-class Science Advisory Board comprised of 17 experts in academia, medicine, industry, the US Dept. of Energy, U.S. Navy nuclear engineering, and former Apollo astronauts, a wet laboratory, a library, and support staff that were generously funded for over 9 years by Robert T. and Diane Bigelow of the Bigelow Companies in Las Vegas.
NIDS accomplished much more to understand anomalous phenomena than the legacy volunteer UFO organizations ever did. Just three years later, NIDS was reborn as the short-lived Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) which conducted classified UAP research and investigations under contract to the Defense Intelligence Agency during 2007-2011 for a project called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP).
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