An upcoming Pentagon report on UFOs is not anticipated to decide what the mysterious flying objects noticed by Navy pilots are, however NASA is now among the many authorities businesses in discovering out.
In an interview with CNN, Bill Nelson, the house company’s new administrator who’s a former Florida senator and spaceflight veteran, forged doubt on one clarification — that the objects are merely optical illusions. He added “I think I would know” if UFOs are proof of extraterrestrials visiting Earth, though Nelson admitted it’s too early to rule out that chance.
He mentioned he started asking NASA’s scientists to examine throughout his first month on the job.
“We don’t know if it’s extraterrestrial. We don’t know if it’s an enemy. We don’t know if it’s an optical phenomenon,” Nelson mentioned. “We don’t think [it’s an optical phenomenon] because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described … And so the bottom line is, we want to know.”
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NASA press secretary Jackie McGuinness mentioned Nelson has not assembled a proper process power to start finding out UFOs. However, researchers had been directed to proceed exploring and finding out the subject as they see match, in accordance to CNN.
USA TODAY has reached out to McGuinness for remark.
“There’s not really a lot of data and … scientists should be free to follow these leads, and it shouldn’t be stigmatized,” McGuinness instructed CNN. “This is a really interesting phenomenon and Americans are clearly interested in it [so if] the scientists want to investigate, they should.”
This is not the primary time researchers have studied the query of whether or not life exterior of Earth exists. In the past 25 years, researchers have found more than 4,000 exoplanets, together with some Earth-like planets. These Earth-like planets might have the potential to harbor life.
In 2019, researchers utilizing information obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope detected water vapor in the environment of one other planet with temperatures that would help life. Just final yr, University of Manchester astrophysicist Christopher Conselice co-authored a study printed in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal estimating there might be 36 clever civilizations all through our Milky Way galaxy. However, that is assuming it takes 5 billion years for clever life to type on different planets, as on Earth.
Although the federal government and NASA’s research might not level to extraterrestrials, it could lead on to a proof to different phenomenons.
“The report on the unidentified aerial phenomena is really important because these certainly are things people have seen,” Conselice mentioned. “It’s extremely unlikely, I think, that it’s aliens visiting Earth, though that is the most exciting theory of course.”
Conselice mentioned he suspects the reviews quantity to “strange reflections” or “atmospheric phenomenons.”
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Contributing: Doyle Rice and Grace Hauck, USA TODAY.
