NASA joins the quest for UFOs

According to the space agency, there is no evidence to suggest that the objects are from another planet.

 

The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it intends to get started on doing research into unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in a scientifically sound manner.

 

Experts who are participating in the study will collect data that is pertinent to sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), figure out the most effective way to record sightings of UAPs in the future, and figure out how NASA can use the new information to improve scientific understanding of the mysterious objects.

 

According to a previous report by Live Science, the announcement of the new initiative comes just over three weeks after a historic hearing in which lawmakers questioned two senior intelligence and defense experts on multiple reports by military pilots of UAPs. The hearing took place in the Congressional Hearing Room and lasted approximately three hours. The hearing centered on a Pentagon report published in June 2021 that detailed 144 recorded sightings of UAPs made by pilots of the United States Navy since 2004. The report found that most of these sightings "probably represent physical objects."

 

There were 144 sightings of UAPs, and 18 were reported to have extremely unusual flight behaviors. The unidentified objects appeared to "remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion," according to the report. According to a previous report by Live Science, released video clips and eyewitness accounts from Navy pilots point to at least some of these ostensibly propulsionless craft moving at hypersonic speeds. One video clip, captured by the United States Navy, showed a spherical UFO hovering midair while bouncing from side to side before plunging into the ocean. Another video clip appeared to show a spherical UFO moving at hypersonic speeds.

 

David Spergel, an astrophysicist, will be in charge of NASA's new study, which the agency claims is not a part of the Pentagon's Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) or its predecessor, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF). The study will be orchestrated by Daniel Evans, an assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

 

In a statement, Spergel stated that "given the lack of observations, our initial objective is simply to obtain the most robust set of data that we can," referring to the limited number of observations. "We will determine what data already exists from citizens, government, organizations, and businesses, what additional data we should seek, and how to analyze it most effectively."

 

Since 1969, when a United States Air Force investigation known as Project Blue Book concluded that no unexplained flying objects had been verified and that none had ever been judged to be a threat to national security, the government has not conducted an extensive investigation of UAPs (the preferred official term for unidentified flying objects, commonly called UFOs). This was the last time such an investigation took place.

 

Then, in 2017, over half a century later, Politico and The New York Times published a bombshell series of whistleblower exposes regarding the secret UFO research office within the Department of Defense. These allegations included statements from Navy pilots and radar crew members who claimed to have met the unusual airborne objects almost " regularly."

 

In response to these reports, President Donald Trump included a requirement in the December 2020 COVID Relief Bill that mandated the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense produce a report on what the government knew about UAPs. The purpose of this report was to outline what the government knew about UAPs and how it planned to respond to them. Later on, President Joe Biden added another requirement to the new National Defense Authorization Act. This time, the requirement stipulated that the military establish a new agency to examine UAPs in addition to preparing an annual report and providing semiannual briefings to Congress.

 

Both the accompanying nine-page 2021 report and the public hearing a month ago lacked sufficient detail. The report could only explain one of the sightings (which turned out to be a large balloon that was deflating), saying that "we currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary." Neither party drew any conclusions from the "largely inconclusive" UAP accounts, and the report could only explain one of the sightings. The report from 2021 also disproved the notion that the sightings were connected to covert operations carried out by the United States military.

 

NASA officials emphasized that there is no evidence that unidentified flying objects come from another planet, even though the United States government is interested in studying them for reasons related to national security and aviation safety. A defense expert's testimony during the May hearing explained how uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAPs) had been engaged in 11 near-collisions with aircraft operated by the United States military. The subcommittee heard that some encounters have even been rumored to have taken place above sensitive nuclear facilities. One example is an alleged incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana that resulted in the inactivation of ten nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) after a glowing red orb was seen overhead.

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# NASA has joined the search for UFOs.