This is indeed unusual ground for NASA, an agency that has spent years trying to gently counter claims that the moon landings were faked. “It’s clear that in a traditional type of science environment, talking about some of these issues may be considered selling out or talking about things that are not actual science,” Zurbuchen told reporters.
Zurbuchen said that a dedicated UAP-research effort poses a “reputational risk” for the agency. NASA leadership is aware of how all of this sounds. “What types of scientific data currently collected and archived by NASA or civilian government entities should be set aside and analyzed?” And what new data should NASA gather to help understand the nature of UAPs? We are looking at Earth all the time,” Zurbuchen said. What exactly is the “science perspective” or the “new science” NASA hopes to unwind? David Spergel, the astrophysicist leading the new team, said in a statement that the group’s first task is to “gather the most robust set of data that we can,” including existing data “from civilians, government, non-profits, companies.” Zurbuchen, in a presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today, suggested that the group would also consider data from astronomy and Earth-observation missions.
“So I have talked to about what specifically we could do from a science perspective, in addition to an intel perspective, to try to bring any additional light to this,” Nelson said in 2021. Nelson, a former senator who was privy to classified information, said he’d talked with pilots who had spotted UAPs and were convinced they’d seen something that merited investigation. The following summer, as the government prepared to release this highly anticipated report, a reporter asked Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, what the agency was doing about UAPs. intelligence agencies in 2020 to compile a report on all of their UAP data. After The New York Times published a story in 2017 about a secret Pentagon program devoted to cataloging UAPs, lawmakers asked the Defense Department and U.S. So why take such a formal interest now? For the same reason, it appears, that American lawmakers recently held the first congressional hearing about UAPs in 50 years: Everyone is talking about them. Read: What the UFO discussion really needsĪs NASA itself said today, there is still no evidence that UAPs (the government’s preferred term, meaning “unidentified aerial phenomena”) have alien origins the agency is much more interested in looking for life deep in the solar system and well beyond. And there’s been many times where something that looked almost magical turned out to be a new scientific effect.” Frankly, I think there’s new science to be discovered. “Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for many reasons. “We have the tools and teams who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown, and we are prepared to use these powerful tools of scientific discovery in this case,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science missions, told reporters in a press conference. Not only has NASA changed its approach to reports of mysterious sightings in the sky, but it will build a UFO research team led by a respected astrophysicist and have public meetings about its results. But today’s announcement marked the first time that NASA has waded so publicly-and this meaningfully-into the broader UFO discussion in the agency’s 64-year history.
Sure, there may have been, in people’s mind, an association between the space agency and unidentified flying objects: The term UFO has been synonymous with alien spaceships since the day it was coined in the 1950s, and one of NASA’s missions is to find signs of life beyond Earth. All the work, which NASA expects will last nine months, will be done from “a science perspective.” The space agency announced yesterday that it will form a team dedicated to studying unidentified aerial phenomena “that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena.” Starting this fall, the team will examine existing data on these objects and brainstorm new ways to collect future data. UFOs? After years of avoiding any serious discussion of such things, NASA is on it.
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