the UAP Task Force had collected 400 reports of UAP sightings<\/a>. He also presented two videos of UAPs, one of which was just a few seconds long showing a small spherical object moving quickly across the camera. Bray used it as an example to show just how little detail pilots can get during UAP sightings sometimes.<\/p>\nHowever, Bray also argued that aliens weren\u2019t the answer. \u201cWhen it comes to material that we have, we have no material \u2014 we have detected no emanations within the UAP Task Force that would suggest it\u2019s anything non-terrestrial in origin,\u201d Bray said.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/source><\/picture>\n
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Another slide presented by Zurbuchen with justifications for the study.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: NASA<\/cite><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Last year during a press conference, Nelson mentioned that he\u2019d spoken to Zurbuchen about NASA possibly looking into UAPs from a science perspective. Today, Zurbuchen confirmed at a press conference that the impetus to form this study sprung from all of the attention the Pentagon\u2019s UAP efforts have received over the last few years. NASA estimates the budget for the study would be between a few tens of thousands of dollars to $100,000.<\/p>\n
NASA says its study is not affiliated with the UAP Task Force or its successor, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG). However, when announcing the study today, Zurbuchen also noted that UAP pose a threat to national security and counterintelligence, two areas that don\u2019t exactly fall under NASA\u2019s purview. \u201cThat\u2019s not what we do for a living,\u201d Zurbuchen said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re not going to get into that at NASA. That\u2019s what other people do for a living. But as a nation, as a government, it\u2019s clear that there\u2019s multiple things that matter here, and there are a handful of them that appear to demonstrate advanced technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
The research team may get access to classified information at some point, though the focus will be on publicly available data. \u201cI do not have classified clearance, and we want this to be an open study,\u201d Spergel said during the press conference today. \u201cSo what we will rely on is, some members of the committee will have clearances and insights we can attain that might help, but mostly I think we\u2019ll really try to see what we can learn from the open data.\u201d<\/p>\n
NASA says the study will take about 9 months to complete. Ultimately, Zurbuchen thinks that the data that NASA has collected by both observing the night sky for potentially dangerous asteroids or by observing the Earth from space could be useful to better understand UAPs. \u201cCan we use datasets that are there and use methodologies to find events that are transient \u2014 that kind of align, sometimes overlapping, with some of these other sightings?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Though NASA emphasized that there is no evidence that UAPs are extraterrestrial in nature, Zurbuchen didn\u2019t shut the door on that possibility. \u201cIf somebody asked me do I really think there is irrefutable evidence for intelligent life here in one of these phenomena, I would give an answer that\u2019s absolutely acceptable as a scientist,\u201d Zurbuchen said, \u201cwhich is, \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Update June 9th, 2:48PM ET: <\/strong><\/em>This article was updated to include additional details from a NASA press conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/9\/23161241\/nasa-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-uap-ufo-study-team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Today, NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency says it plans to study these sightings from a scientific perspective but also stressed that \u201cthere is no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,26,33],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-science","category-space","tag-nasa"],"yoast_head":"\n
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