UAP, the term “unidentified aerial phenomenon” is used by the Pentagon for unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Because he thinks this term represents situations that are less likely to be aliens, unlike UFOs. This actually makes sense, because things labeled as UFOs are not flying objects, but optical illusions, images, or artifacts.
Whatever the UAPs are, they’ve been in the news a lot lately, as the US House Intelligence Committee has held several hearings on the events that haven’t come to any concrete conclusions. The trials have resurfaced some of the rare (but surprising) videos. Some previously unreleased footage has been released alongside UAPs that have been declassified by the Pentagon over the past few years.
The videos allegedly show geometric shapes behaving in ways that no known technology or creature can. But it was repeated at the hearings that basically US military personnel said they didn’t know or at least didn’t know much about these phenomena. Now, NASA is stepping in.
NASA’s associate director of science, Thomas Zurbuchen, said in a statement, “NASA believes that scientific exploration tools are powerful, and it applies here, too,” and continued: “From space, we can observe Earth in different ways. We have the tools and the team that can help us improve our understanding of the unknown.”
Astrophysicist and current president of the science-focused Simons Foundation, David Spergel, “Our first task is simply to gather the most robust data set we can get,” says David Spergel. We need to determine what data exists, what else we should try to collect, and how best to analyze it.”
NASA will first determine which of these events may be natural and which may be technological. While the agency is skeptical about alien spacecraft visiting Earth, it is generally optimistic about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Several NASA missions are looking for evidence of life outside of Earth, including the new James Webb Space Telescope and the Perseverance Mars probe.
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