Here’s how NASA will study UFOs. Wsj report
The US space agency is gathering researchers to examine "unidentified aerial phenomena". The study is expected to last about nine months.
NASA wants to know more about unidentified flying objects. The US space agency said Thursday that it is assembling researchers to examine "unidentified aerial phenomena – UAP," a term the federal government uses to refer to what are commonly known as UFOs, writes the WSJ .
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has stated that studying these phenomena from a scientific perspective can be of interest to both national security and aviation security. He added that there is "no evidence" that UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin.
"We will identify what data – from civilians, government, nonprofits, corporations – exist, what others we should try to collect and how to best analyze it," said astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation in New York, who will lead the study team.
The study will begin in the early fall and is expected to last around nine months.
Last month, US Defense officials released videos of unidentified flying objects during the first Congressional hearing on the subject in more than half a century. Some footage showed the cockpit view of an airplane and a split second flash of a spherical object flying to the right of the plane.
"Part of our task at NASA, entrusted to us by Congress, is not only to do fundamental research in the skies and so on, but also to find life elsewhere," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington.
NASA said UAP's limited number of observations makes it difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of these events.
At the conclusion of the study, scheduled for next year, NASA said it will hold a public meeting to discuss the results.
(Extract from the foreign press review by Epr Comunicazione)
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