After months of work, an expert report recommended Thursday that NASA play “a leadership role” in studying UFOs in the future. The US space agency announced last year the launch of an independent investigation into this sensitive issue, led by a group of eminent scientists and aeronautics experts.
The report, released Thursday, recommends that NASA “play a leadership role in a government effort to understand” these “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”
“The importance of detecting” these phenomena with “multiple well-calibrated sensors is essential”, and NASA has a lot of “experience” in this area, which could be used within the framework of a “rigorous data collection campaign”, underlines the report.
NASA can, for example, observe whether certain weather phenomena coincide with the observation of these phenomena, he says. He also recommends greater involvement of the general public, with the development of a system to collect recordings made, for example, with mobile phones.
“Unidentified abnormal phenomena”
The US space agency will hold a press conference on Thursday morning to present this work, in the presence of its boss, Bill Nelson, and David Spergel, the astrophysicist in charge of directing the research.
The goal of the report was not to review one by one the events already observed in an attempt to explain them, but to make recommendations on how to rigorously study them in the future.
Experts are working to replace the term UFO (“unidentified flying object”) with “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” in order to distance the issue from speculation about extraterrestrials visiting our planet.
NASA defines these phenomena as “the observation of events in the sky that cannot be scientifically identified as an airplane or a known natural phenomenon.”
There is no evidence of extraterrestrial origin
While recognizing the existence of such events and the need to take them seriously, NASA has been repeating for a year that there is no evidence that they have an extraterrestrial origin.
During a progress meeting in May, experts stressed the need to collect more data, in a much more rigorous way than before.
According to some experts, new physical phenomena could be discovered that would explain certain phenomena.
US intelligence and the Pentagon have also investigated the issue, stressing that it affects both national and air traffic security.
Source: BFM TV
