A research team funded by the US National Air and Space Administration ( NASA) gathered experts from the fields of physics to astronomical biology to open a study on October 24 on what the government calls an "undetectable phenomenon in the sky", still commonly known as UFO.
Is it similar to the Pentagon research team?
The teams investigation is separate from the newly notified Pentagon investigation into the phenomena in the air of no determination, or UAP. They are often reported by military pilots and analyzed by US defense and intelligence officials.
The parallel efforts of NASA and the Pentagon have marked a turning point in US government action, after decades of being seen as trying to deviate, damage and disrupt information on observations of unidentified flying objects, which have been around since the 40s.
The term UFO, long associated with the concept of such as spacecraft and flying planets of planets, has been replaced in the official US government's calling of the term "UAP" (unknown phenomenon in the air).
Announcing the council's formation in June, NASA said: "There is no evidence that UAP originated from beyond Earth."
A Pentagon report released a year earlier also showed that the agency did not have enough data to determine the nature of the more than 140 phenomena that have not been recorded by military observers since 2004, mainly US Navy employees.
Senior defense and intelligence officials have stated to the National Assembly five months ago that the list of cases seen in UAP has been compiled.
Since then, the number of cases seeing UAP has increased to 400, but many people have not been able to explain. Some believe it is secret technology on Earth, atmospheric phenomena or something on the planet.
Among the UAP cases, there are videos released by the Pentagon about mysterious objects in the air showing speed and mobility beyond the known aviation technology and without anyaperaper vehicle or flight control surface to be seen.
NASA and the UFO (or UAP)
NASA said its board will spend nine months developing its own strategy for how to organize and research physical incidents before proposing a "potential UAP data analysis roadmap for the agency in the future." The first report will be made public in mid-2023.
Understanding unidentified sky phenomenon data is important to help us draw scientific conclusions about what is happening in our sky, said Thomas Zurbuchen, deputy director of NASA.
The NASA council is chaired by David Spergel, who was formerly the head of the department of astronomical physics at Prince University. Other members include Anamaria Berea, a research arm at the SETI Institute (intellectual Life Search) in Mountainview, California, USA; retired NASA astronaut and experimental pilot Scott Kelly; student oceanographer Paula Bontempi of Rhode Island University; and nearly 2,000-year-old petropheteer Sh shar shar shar shar shar shar shar shar at the University of California in San Diego.
