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Nasa alien news conference4/2/2023 ![]() The point is not to “sift through the data and do all this research,” Zurbuchen stressed, but to determine what data are there and what’s needed. This is the way I believe this should be done” and similar to how he’s dealt with “ambiguous” scientific questions in the past. “I was not asked by anybody to do this or find this particular approach. Zurbuchen was also participating in the press conference and said much of what he said today, that nature is full of surprises, some of which may seem magical at first, but turn out to be new science.Īsked if Nelson directed that this study be conducted, Zurbuchen said Nelson’s interest is no secret, but this is his idea. He said he was aware of the Navy pilots’ reports, had met with them, and “they think it’s real.” He added that he’d spoken to Zurbuchen about what NASA could do from a science perspective to shed light on it. Senator who served on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee. Last summer, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was asked about UAPs in a press conference. Evans hopes having NASA look at UAPs through a scientific lens may reduce the “stigma” associated with UAPs as evidenced by the Navy pilots who were reluctant to report their observations. The 9-month study will begin in the fall and cost less than $100,000. Evans said there will be public meetings and the report will be “fully transparent.” ![]() One major difference is that the NASA study will be unclassified. The House and Senate Intelligence Committees are worried less about the possiblity of aliens visiting Earth than terrestrial adversaries testing new weapons technologies. Established at congressional direction and recently the topic of a House Intelligence Committee hearing, one focus has been inexplicable sightings by Navy pilots. The NASA effort is separate from what is going on in DOD and the Intelligence Community with what is now called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. There are “phenomenon we don’t understand, and so how do we begin to make progress?” The study committee will work with “governments, non-profits, companies, civilians” to identify what data is already there and then determine what other data are needed and how to obtain it. While there are national security and aircraft safety reasons to understand UAPs, “I think there’s new science to be discovered” as well. Understanding the unknown is what NASA is all about, and “we have the tools and teams” to do that. The same tools NASA uses for its research in astrobiology - the search for life elsewhere in the universe - can be used here. What kind of data need to be collected, for example. The study of UAPs is “data poor” and the point of the study is how to make it data rich. ![]() “We are not shying away from reputational risk.” Clearly aware that UAPs are a controversial topic, he insisted that NASA is not dissuaded from performing “high risk, high impact” research and this is no different. Zurbuchen is treating this like any other scientific inquiry. Zurbuchen presented the statement of task at the SSB meeting. Daniel Evans, SMD’s assistant deputy associate administrator for research, will manage the study. The former chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton, he is now President of the Simons Foundation in New York. Spergel is the only member of the panel named today. SMD Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen shared the news at a meeting of the National Academies’ Space Studies Board this morning and a hastily-called media teleconference this afternoon. ![]() Astrophysicist David Spergel will chair the study. The study is a collaboration between NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate since one motivation for NASA’s involvement is safety of aircraft. The 9-month study is not intended to do research on what are formally called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, but to determine what unclassified data is available and what more is needed to figure out what people are seeing. NASA is about to take a look at data on UFOs from a scientific perspective.
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