NASA is launching a scientific study of reported UFO sightings to better understand the series of unidentified aircraft flying in protected airspace in recent years. The study isn’t related to a Pentagon Task force investigation of the phenomena.
Clouds are seen behind the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on February 7, 2008 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesNASA announced Thursday that it’s launching a scientific study of reported sightings of UFOs, the latest in a wave of federal agencies trying to understand the nature of a series of unidentified aircraft flying in protected airspace in recent years.
NASA plans to recruit some of the nation’s leading scientists and aeronautics experts to participate in the study. “It’s extremely important to us that this remains a fully-transparent, open and therefore unclassified study,” Evans said. “We’re going to have public meetings about this, too.” Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, testified that the group has received more than 400 UAP reports,Bray also testified that the Pentagon observed an increasing number of UAP sightings since the early 2000s, a fact that has puzzled lawmakers as questions emerge whether the phenomena present a national security threat by a potential adversary.
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