NASA has arranged for a team of scientists to evaluate UAPs.
The study, which will begin early in the fall, will tackle a range of questions related to the sight of objects in the sky that have not been identified as aircraft. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, told a meeting of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Technology that artificial intelligence and machine learning should be applied to the UAP problem. One thing was made clear.
NASA says there is no evidence that UAPs are extra-terrestrials.
In addition to Zurbuchen's brief comments on the new program at today's meeting, NASA announced that the agency will hold a news conference at 1p.m. You can watch live here on Space.com or through the space agency.
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During a discussion on high-risk, high- impact research, Zurbuchen introduced a new assessment. He defined this research as work that goes against the current wisdom of science but that could profoundly change the way that we think about the world.
Zurbuchen said, "Imagine a graduate student looking at their data and suddenly they find that some of the leaders in the field are opposed to them." It's difficult for graduate students to publish their work, and I want you to know that it's better for science if we do that.
Zurbuchen said the new panel's work was clean and solidly in high risk. The panel will be chaired by David Spergel and assisted by Daniel Evans.
Zurbuchen said in a statement that NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also. There is a wide range of observations of Earth from space. The team and tools we have can help us understand the unknown better. That's how science is defined. We do that.
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