As Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA said, NASA is placing a director in charge of detecting UFOs in the atmosphere and analyzing these phenomena, and money will be allocated for this purpose. Nelson said NASA will appoint a UAP research director whose job will be “to develop and oversee the implementation of NASA’s vision for UAP research.” He added that NASA will work with other agencies to analyze unexplained phenomena – and will use artificial intelligence and machine learning for sky research. “We will continue to search the skies for habitable objects,” Nelson says. He adds that NASA will do this “transparently”.

Nelson said that “it’s very difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of UAP.” He stressed the independence of the team NASA assembled and said recent technological advances, including the James Webb telescope, which was launched in 2021, make it almost certain that we will find other Earth-like planets in space.

Whether this means we have been visited by aliens is another matter. Nelson says there’s no evidence that UAPs come from space – but we just don’t know what they are. “We are embarking on this project with no preconceptions, but understanding that we are in a world of discovery,” he says.

The presentation took place at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. The full report was posted online by NASA about 30 minutes before the announcement. Read the survey findings HERE

This report is the result of research by an independent committee of 16 scientists, aeronautical engineers, and data experts, led by astrophysicist David Spergel, and has been supported by NASA since 2022.

The team’s goal was to study UAPs from a science-based perspective and create guidance on how to integrate scientific tools and data to better understand UAPs. Daniel Evans, a senior NASA official, previously noted that the report will be made publicly available in accordance with the agency’s principles of transparency and scientific integrity, encouraging everyone to review and study it.