NASA assembles a UFO research team to study ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’

NASA has created a study team dedicated to the study of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs), as they attempt to shed some of their tinfoil-hat stigma. Don't expect the "X-Files" team to try to prove the existence of aliens.

The study will have researchers identify what UAP data already exists, determine how best to collect UAP data moving forward, and develop methods for studying the nature of UAPs. The leader of the team will be David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation in New York City.

Evans said in a press call that NASA has answered the call to tackle some of the most puzzling mysteries they know of. NASA is uniquely positioned to address UAPs because we can use data and science to look at what is happening in our skies. This is what makes us do what we do.

There are other programs dedicated to UAP research. The United States Air Force studied UAPs during the 1960's. The New York Times reported on a secret Pentagon UAP research program that ended in 2012 because of lack of funding. Increased public interest in UAPs was caused by that report. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was formed by the Department of Defense to investigate UAP reports.

These programs have yet to explain most UAP occurrences. There is no evidence that UAPs are extraterrestrial as shown in the declassified UAP report from June 2021.

NASA has been upfront about the fact that UAPs aren't alien spaceships. There is no proof that UAPs are extra-terrestrials. Aliens are not completely out of the question.

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science, said that part of NASA's task is to find life elsewhere. For example, we have built programs in many disciplines that look at both extinct life on Mars and the patterns of life elsewhere, such as in Enceldus.

NASA is currently researching signs of alien technology that could be created by intelligent life.

NASA won't be trying to develop explanations for UAPs in the study. The results of this information-gathering mission may open the door for further UAP research and analysis. Spergel said in the press call that they would hopefully lay out some of the road map of how they might make progress in the future.

Special Agent Dana Scully would be proud of NASA's UAP research.