Specialists from the team formed by NASA to study “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP), popularly known as UFOs, revealed on Wednesday that they found no data suggesting a direct link between the analyzed cases and extraterrestrial life .
“At this point, we really don’t have any explicit data to suggest that there is a link between UAP and extraterrestrial life,” said David Grinspoon, a senior scientist at the Institute of Planetary Sciences, who is part of the US space agency’s team.
This team held a press conference following the first public expert symposium from NASA’s UAP, established last June to advance scientific understanding of these phenomena.
The full report of what this team of 16 experts from different disciplines has discovered will be published in July.
In all, about 800 phenomena have been analyzed that have occurred over the past three decades, most of them fully identifiable and a minority of which is unknown what they are.
“We have to admit that there are things we don’t understand and some are not even well understood,” Grinspoon explains, adding that he saw “no evidence that UAPs have anything to do with extraterrestrial phenomena.”
Although the search for extraterrestrial life is not the goal of the mission, most of the questions at the press conference went in that direction.
Another team member, Daniel Evans, stressed “loud and proud” that “there is absolutely no compelling evidence of extraterrestrial life associated with the UAP.”
“We are all committed to transparency and openness at NASA, which is why we are holding these meetings in a public forum and will publish the full report later this summer,” he recalled.
Evans stressed that the presence of the UAP “raises concerns about the safety” of the airspace and that it is the responsibility “to work together to investigate whether these anomalies, these phenomena pose a risk to the safety of the airspace”.
Grinspoon added that the purpose of the mission is to provide a guide to how NASA can contribute to understanding the phenomena being detected.
Most of these, he explained, “have conventional explanations” and are “commercial aircraft, civilian or military ‘drones’, research balloons, military equipment, meteorological phenomena or ionospheric phenomena”.
“That being said, there remain events that we don’t understand, but these events are usually characterized by low quality [na sua deteção] and limited data,” he stressed.
So one of the lessons learned last year is about “the need to [recolher] more high-quality data,” concludes Grinspoon.
Source: DN
