NASA Announces a Team , To Study UFOs .
The space agency announced the project on June 9.
According to NASA, the team will research “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective.”.
The team will begin its work in the fall, with research expected to last up to nine months.
NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry.
, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown.
That’s the very definition of what science is.
That’s what we do, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
The team leader, David Spergel, described how they expect to approach the research.
Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
... what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
This study is in line with the agency's directives because part of NASA's ongoing mission is the search for life in the universe.
We’re looking for the question of whether certain environments are in fact part of, if you want, the ladder of life that got us to where we are, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
We don’t know what makes up 95% of the universe.
So there are things we don’t understand, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
I hope this study moves us forward to understand these phenomena better, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN
