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CAPE CANAVER, Florida – NASA has launched a study of UFOs as part of a new impetus for high-risk science with great impact.
The space agency announced on Thursday that it is setting up an independent team to see how much information is publicly available on the issue and how much more is needed to understand the unexplained observations. Experts will also consider how best to use all this information in the future.
The head of NASA’s science mission, Thomas Zurbuchen, acknowledged that the traditional scientific community might see NASA as a “sell-off” by tackling the issue, but he strongly disagreed.
“We are not afraid of reputational risk,” Zurbuchen said during a webcast of the National Academy of Sciences. “Our strong belief is that the biggest challenge to these phenomena is that this is a poor data field.”
NASA sees this as a first step in an attempt to explain mysterious observations in the sky, known as UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena.
The study will begin this fall and will last nine months, costing no more than $ 100,000. It will be fully open without the use of classified military data.
NASA has said the team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation for Advances in Research. Speeling told a news conference that the only bias in the study was that the UAP was likely to have many explanations.
“We need to approach all these issues with a sense of humility,” Spergel said. “I spent most of my career as a cosmologist. I can tell you that we do not know what makes up 95% of the universe. So there are things we don’t understand. “
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