Want more health and science stories in your inbox? Subscribe to Salon's weekly newsletter The Vulgar Scientist.ĭaniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, also claimed in the statement that the team's findings would be open to the public.
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"We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it." "Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can," astrophysicist David Spergel, who is leading the independent study team, said in the official NASA statement. Over a period of nine months, experts in aeronautics, data analytics and a range of relevant scientific disciplines will analyze information about UAPs from a comprehensive spectrum of sources.
Their stated mission is instead to protect national security make sure that UFOs don't endanger aircraft and otherwise serve practical needs. The US space agency is not claiming that extraterrestrial life exists, they note. RELATED: Scientists are studying whether Cold War-era photos of the night sky contain clues of alien life In NASA's own words, when this team gets started in the autumn, it will "examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective." Three years later, we may not know much more about the secretive Area 51 military installation, but NASA is creating an investigative team animated by the same curious spirit as that Facebook group. With varying degrees of sincerity, they insisted that the government had a responsibility to disclose what it knows about the possibility that UFOs have visited Earth. The National UFO Reporting Center did not immediately respond to ABC News' requests additional comment.Back in September 2019 (during what some might call "the before times,"), half a million people joined a half-serious Facebook group called "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us." The group's name was self-explanatory: These people had heard the notorious conspiracy theory that the American government possesses evidence of extraterrestrial life at the Area 51 facility near Groom Lake in southern Nevada. "My friend and I were on my driveway behind my house and it was dark," the witness said.Ī craft traveling slowly appeared and rapidly disappeared, the witness said, adding the craft was "almost silent" with "one bright light in the front, followed by two red lights horizontally opposed quite a distance from the front." Most recent sighting: Pfafftown on March 18, 2015, at 9:25 p.m. The witness reported seeing a lit-up object in the sky that hovered, disappeared and reappeared in the same spot. Most Recent Sighting: Vicksburg on March 24, 2015, at 10:30 p.m. "After about 30 sec it made a swoop back the way it came." "It the started to move from left to right," the witness wrote.
The witness claimed spotting a chevron-shaped craft "at low altitude behind the tops of some trees." Most recent sighting: North Ridgefield on March 22, 2015, at 11:00 p.m. The witness reported seeing tightly grouped white lights in the east that vanished after 30 seconds. Most recent sighting: Philadelphia on March 25, 2015, at 12:05 a.m.
"It doesn't appear to be moving (like a plane), but is in a different position every night."
"For the past few nights we've seen a brilliant bright white light under the moon in the night sky, and we're wondering what it is," the witness said. Most recent sighting: Green Valley on Maat 8:30 p.m. The witness claimed seeing a spacecraft trying to abduct an airplane and hearing strange songs from the attic. Most recent sighting: Bronx, New York City, on March 22, 2015, at 10:00 p.m.