UFOs, What in the World Are They?!

"We're looking at the Earth in new ways, and we're also looking the other way, at the sky, in new ways."

"[Examining UFO reports could be] high-risk, high-impact kind of research."

"What we're really trying to do here is start an investigation without an outcome in mind."

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchan, head, NASA Science Unit

NASA says it wants to provide a 'scientific perspective' on UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena

Once head of Princeton University astrophysics department, David Spergel is set to spend roughly nine months in the development of a public report on findings with a team of scientists to be assembled for the purpose of examining UFOs. An enterprise that speaks as clearly as any other of the seriousness of Washington's intention to discover illuminating details leading to a closer understanding of exactly what these mysterious airborne objects regularly reported by pilots among others, truly represent.

 

The focus, explains NASA, is to be on the identification of data currently available, optimum ways of gathering future data, and how it can best be used in the advancement of scientific understanding of the strange phenomena whose provenance and purpose has yet to be understood.

 

A year earlier the U.S. government had issued a detailed report on these mysterious observations reported by navy personnel of "unidentified aerial phenomenon" (UAPs), the new preferred nomenclature for what has always been referred to as "unidentified flying objects". That report outlined some of the information that had been gathered, but no revelations as to their origins was forthcoming.

 

The US Defense Department says it now has reports from military personnel of at least 400 UAP encounters, it released excerpts of footage and pilots' cockpit audio last year

Some videos taken of these enigmatic objects seen to exhibit speed and maneuverability far in excess of any known aviation technology, without any visible means of propulsion had been released by the Pentagon for public view. A month ago two officials from the Pentagon testified at the initial congressional hearing on UFOs to take place, in a half-century.

 

What they clarified was that many such observations remain beyond the capacity of any government agency or any in the legitimate scientific-astrological-astrophysics community to explain beyond conjecture. This new initiative is to be launched in an effort to explicate the situation to the best of the ability of the yet-to-be-assembled team of scientists. 

In this photo taken on April 28, 2020 this video grab image courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena.