NASA IS SETTING UP A TEAM TO STUDY UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA

Sun 12 June 2022:

NASA, the US space agency, announced on Thursday that it will form a team to investigate unusual aerial phenomena (UAPs).

The new independent team will start early in the fall to examine events that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena.

“The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward,” the agency said in a statement.

It said unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for national security and air safety.

“NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington.

“We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space-and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do,” he added.

There is no proof that UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin, according to the agency.

Astrophysicist David Spergel, head of the Simons Foundation in New York City and former chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University, will lead the research team.

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