Is the truth out there? NASA’s UFO study recruits astronaut Scott Kelly and 15 other experts to help solve HUNDREDS of unexplained sightings
NASA has recruited the best of the best to unravel the mysteries of unexplained natural phenomena seen in the skies with the hopes of solving hundreds of sightings.
Astronaut Scott Kelly, who is famously known for spending nearly a year in space, is one of 16 team members who will comb through unclassified data of UFOs to help the space agency ‘craft scientific conclusions’ about what is actually occurring.
The independent study is set to launch Monday and will carry on for the next nine months – the team is expected to share their findings with the public in mid-2023.
The program, announced in June, follows the first US congressional hearings in 50 years that revealed videos showing 144 ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ seen by military personnel since 2004.
The team, which includes scientists, data and artificial intelligence specialists and aerospace safety experts, will identify how data gathered by civilian government entities, commercial data, and data from other sources can potentially be analyzed to shed light on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
The NASA official responsible for orchestrating the study is Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
As previously announced, the independent study team is chaired by David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation.
‘NASA has brought together some of the world’s leading scientists, data and artificial intelligence practitioners, aerospace safety experts, all with a specific charge, which is to tell us how to apply the full focus of science and data to UAP,’ said Evans in a statement.
‘The findings will be released to the public in conjunction with NASA’s principles of transparency, openness, and scientific integrity.’
NASA has previously confirmed that there is no current evidence the UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin, or any indication of alien life, but the limited number of observations makes it difficult to draw scientific conclusions.
Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said: ‘NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also.
‘We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry.
‘We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do.’
The subject of UFOs has been a longtime fascination of sci-fi fans and telescope owners, but has recently piqued the attention of US congress.
The public congressional hearing on UAPs was held in May and a new law mandated a government UAP task force.
Last year, a US intelligence report was released that documented 144 sightings from the past two decades that it said could not be explained.
They suggested the events could be human generated ‘airborne clutter’, like escaped balloons or plastic bags, or the result of natural phenomena caused by ice crystals, moisture or heat.
The report admitted they had no evidence to either suggest or rule out alien origin.
It stated: ‘UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology.’
However, it also stated the observations ‘could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis.’
Ronald Moultrie, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence, testified before the panel.
Moultrie said the Pentagon has not ruled out the possibility that these incidents could be connected to extraterrestrial life.
‘There are elements of our government engaged in … looking for extraterrestrial life,’ Moultrie said. ‘Our goal is not to potentially cover up something, it’s to understand what’s maybe out there.’
However, Bray said that officials have encountered no evidence to suggest the UAEs are of extra-terrestrial origin. ‘We’ll go wherever the data takes us,’ he said.
‘We have eliminated the stigma,’ added Bray.
‘We are all curious and we seek to understand the unknown. And as a lifelong intelligence professional, I’m impatient. I want immediate explanations for this as much as anyone else. However, understanding can take significant time and effort. It’s why we’ve endeavored to concentrate on this data driven process to derive fact based results,’ Bray said.
‘We want to know what’s out there as much as you do,’ Moultrie said, adding that he was a fan of science fiction.
‘Yes, I have followed science fiction. I have gone to conventions, I’ll say it on the record. … There’s nothing wrong with that. Don’t necessarily dress up.’
Source: daily mail
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