NASA now has a robust program in astrobiology - looking at life elsewhere in the solar system and galaxy - but does almost no work on the possibility of intelligent civilizations sharing our universe. research as “not actual science,” tackling controversial questions is important, Dr.

While many scientists might consider U.F.O. “It’s for a research program that we can then implement,” he said. The NASA study will also consider other explanations like natural phenomena or unknown advanced technology developed by Russia, China or other countries. NASA has not yet chosen the other scientists who will participate on the study. NASA’s effort will be independent of the Pentagon’s and will be led by David Spergel, an astrophysicist who is currently president of the Simons Foundation in New York, which finances fundamental research work in mathematics and the sciences. The officials said there was no evidence that these phenomena were extraterrestrial in nature. In 2021, the Pentagon announced it would form a new task force to look at the issue after a Congressionally-mandated report found there was insufficient data for many incidents that had been observed.Īt a House subcommittee hearing last month, Pentagon officials testified about military reports of unexplained phenomena, including a reflective spherical object speeding past a fighter jet. The Pentagon has said the program was shut down in 2012, but backers of the program said its work continued. military flyers.For years a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, ran a little-noticed group within the Pentagon called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The assessment came after lawmakers inserted the requirement for the report into last year’s intelligence authorization bill, following a spike in UFO sightings by U.S. But thus far, we don’t have any receipt of communication from something that’s intelligent,” Nelson said. We have a program in NASA called the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. But when it comes to the universe, remember, the universe is so large. does not think that other countries have capabilities to create such flying objects, but cautioned that “the universe is so large.”

Nelson said if the latter is the case “we better be concerned.” He added that the UAP sightings by the Navy pilots “may not be extraterrestrial,” and could possibly be new technology obtained by an adversary country. And what the report does tell us that is public is that there have been over 140 of these sightings,” Nelson, a former U.S. They tracked it, they locked their radar on to it, they followed it, it would suddenly move quickly from one location to another. “We don’t know the answer to what those Navy pilots saw. He said the report “says basically what we thought,” referring to Navy pilots who previously reported UAP sightings. But people are hungry for this kind of information and we’re going to keep searching,” he added. “The universe is so big, it’s 13 1/2 billion years ago is when the universe started. “Are we alone? Personally, I don’t think we are,” Nelson said during an interview on CNN. Nelson, who has reviewed the unclassified and classified versions of the report, said he believes Earth is not alone in the galaxy. It also, however, presented “a catchall ‘other’ bin” as an additional explanation. government programs and foreign adversary systems. The nine-page unclassified assessment presented a number of potential explanations for the encounters, including airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, top-secret U.S. Of the sightings, one was identified with high confidence, while the others remain a mystery. government has encountered 144 UAP since 2004. The intelligence report, which was unclassified on Friday, said the U.S. government has encountered more than 140 unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Sunday said he does not think individuals on Earth “are alone” in the universe, following the release of a United States intelligence report that revealed the U.S.

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