After months of work, an expert report recommended Thursday that NASA should play a “leading role” in UFO research going forward.
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The American space agency announced last year the launch of an independent investigation into this sensitive issue, led by a group of renowned scientists and aviation experts.
The report released Thursday recommended that NASA “play a leading role in the government’s efforts to understand these “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”
“It is important to detect these phenomena with “multiple and well-calibrated sensors,” and NASA has great “expertise” in this area that could be used as part of an “intensive data collection campaign,” the report emphasizes.
For example, NASA can observe whether certain meteorological phenomena coincide with the observation of those phenomena, he says.
He also recommends greater involvement of the general public and the development of a system for collecting recordings, for example from mobile phones.
The American space agency will hold a press conference on Thursday morning to present this work in the presence of its boss Bill Nelson and David Spergel, the astrophysicist leading the study.
The purpose of the report was not to review and explain one by one the events already observed, but to make recommendations for a future thorough investigation.
Experts are working to replace the term UFO – “unidentified flying object” – with “unidentified anomalous phenomenon” to distance the topic from speculation about aliens visiting our planet.
NASA defines these phenomena as “the observation of events in the sky that cannot be scientifically identified as an aircraft or a known natural phenomenon.”
Although NASA recognizes the existence of such events and the need to take them seriously, it has been repeating for a year that there is no evidence that they have an extraterrestrial origin.
During a progress meeting in May, experts stressed the need to collect more data, and in a much more rigorous way than before.
According to some experts, new physical phenomena could be discovered that would explain certain phenomena.
American intelligence and the Pentagon have also looked into the matter and emphasized that it concerns both national security and air traffic.