Global Courant
Experts from the team formed by NASA to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), popularly known as UFOs, stated on Wednesday May 31 that they have not found any data that suggests a direct connection between them and extraterrestrial life.
“At this point, we really don’t have any explicit data to suggest that there is a connection between UAPs and extraterrestrial life,” David Grinspoon, a senior scientist at the Institute for Planetary Sciences, who is part of the team, told a news conference.
The press conference was held after the first public symposium of the experts who are members of the NASA group in charge of analyzing UAPs, formed in June 2022 to advance the scientific understanding of these phenomena.
The full report of what was discovered by this team of 16 experts from different disciplines will be published next July.
In total, approximately 800 phenomena that have occurred in the last three decades have been studied, most of them fully identifiable phenomena and a minority that is not known what they are.
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“We have to admit that there are things out there that we don’t understand and, in fact, some of them are not well understood,” Grinspoon said, but he hasn’t seen “any evidence that UAPs have anything to do with extraterrestrial phenomena. ”.
Although the search for extraterrestrial life is not the objective of the mission, a large part of the questions at the press conference have been in this direction.
Another member of the team, Daniel Evans, wanted to emphasize “loudly and proudly” that “there is absolutely no convincing evidence of extraterrestrial life associated with UAP.”
“We are all committed to transparency and openness at NASA. And that is why we are holding these meetings in such a public forum and we will publish the full report later this summer,” he noted.
Evans stressed that the presence of UAP “raises concerns about the safety” of the skies and the responsibility is “to work together to investigate whether these anomalies, these phenomena represent any risk to the safety of the airspace.”
Grinspoon added that the goal of the mission is to provide a roadmap for how NASA can contribute to the understanding of the phenomena being detected.
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Most of them, he explained, “have conventional explanations” and are “commercial aircraft, civilian or military drones, whether it be research balloons, military equipment, meteorological phenomena, ionospheric phenomena.”
“That being said, there remain events that we don’t understand, but these events tend to be characterized by poor quality (in their detection) and limited data,” he said.
Thus, one of the lessons learned in the last year is “the need for more high-quality data,” Grinspoon said.
