This isn’t the first program dedicated to UAP research. “I do want to underscore that NASA is uniquely positioned to address UAPs, because who other than us can use the power of data and science to look at what’s happening in our skies? And quite frankly, this is why we do what we do.” “Over the decades, NASA has answered the call to tackle some of the most perplexing mysteries we know of, and this is no different,” said Evans in a press call. The team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation in New York City, alongside Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Starting this fall, the study will have researchers identify what UAP data already exists, determine how best to collect UAP data moving forward and develop methods to study the nature of UAPs, for both scientific and aerospace defense reasons. But don’t expect some sort of “X-Files” team seeking to prove the existence of extraterrestrials. “All of NASA’s data is available to the public – we take that obligation seriously – and we make it easily accessible for anyone to see or study.NASA has announced the formation of a study team dedicated to UFOs - or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as they’ve been rebranded to shed some of their tin-foil-hat stigma. “Consistent with NASA’s principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, this report will be shared publicly,” said Evans. The agency stated that the results will be entirely open, with no classified military data used.
“We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.”ĭaniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will assist Spergel and serve as the NASA official responsible for orchestrating the study.
“Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can,” said Spergel. The team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel. “There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin,” the agency added. In the press release, the agency stated that “unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety,” and that “establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena.”
“We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown.” “NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA. The study, which is set to launch this fall, is expected to last nine months and will cost no more than $100,000, according to the agency. In a press release, the space agency stated that experts will be tasked with “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 stated that the results will be entirely open, with no classified military data used.Experts will be tasked with “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 study, which is set to launch this fall, is expected to last nine months and will cost no more than $100,000, according to the agency.NASA announced Thursday that it is establishing an independent team of researchers to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena.