Nasa UFO report: Scientists reveal first-ever report on unidentified anomalous phenomena
Space agency releases pioneering report on unexplained events spotted by pilots and others
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Your support makes all the difference.Nasa has released the first findings from its report into unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UFOs.
The US space agency commissioned the study in response to a variety of reports of what appear to be unexplained and unknown craft, reported by US pilots and others.
It said that unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, are defined as “observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective”. It noted that there are very few high-quality observations of the phenomena, which makes them difficult to understand scientifically.
The first report found “there is no reason to conclude that existing UAP reports have an extraterrestrial source”, however Nasa chief Bill Nelson said he personally believes aliens are out there.
“There is a global fascination with UAPs,” he said. “Much of that fascination is due to the unknown nature of it.”
A media briefing on the report was live streamed from Nasa’s official YouTube channel.
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“Some of the threats have been beyond the pale, quite frankly, towards some of our panelists.”
The new role is aimed at “developing and the implementation of Nasa’s vision for UAP research,” Bill Nelson said.
“We will use Nasa’s expertise to work with agencies to analyse UAP.”
Nasa panel urges Mexico to make ‘alien corpse’ samples available for study
The panel comments on the peculiar unveiling of ‘alien corpses’ at Mexico’s congress yesterday, which were presented by a controversial UFO enthusiast.
David Spergel, who chaired the latest UAP study, urged the Mexican government to make the samples available for scientific study. “We don’t know the nature of those samples,” he said.
Dan Evans, an assistant deputy associate administrator, added: “One of the main things we’re trying to do here today is to move conjecture and conspiracy towards science and sanity and you do that with data.”
You can read more about those ‘aliens’ here.
Nasa’s UAP report briefing comes to a close
That’s it from Nasa’s panel.
Here’s a round-up of the main things we learned today:
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