NASA appoints director to investigate UFOs: "The threat is self-evident"

Despite the decision, NASA stated that it does not have enough evidence to determine that the objects have extraterrestrial origin.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published a report explaining that it does not have enough evidence to confirm that unidentified flying objects (UFOs), of which they have records, have an extraterrestrial origin:

Those objects must have traveled through our solar system to get here.

The agency is appointing a director to investigate what now qualifies as anomalous unidentified phenomena (UAP). However, NASA did not reveal the name of who will lead the office. "The threat to U.S. airspace safety posed by UAP is self-evident." the agency's report said.

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NASA will work with other agencies to analyze unexplained phenomena and will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to search the skies. When the director was asked for his opinion on the possibility that there are other forms of life in the universe, he said he is convinced that it exists.

"The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin. But we don't know what these UAP are. That's why I'm announcing that NASA has appointed a NASA director of UAP research," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

Nelson said they will continue to investigate and look for signs of life, past and present. At the same time he mentioned that, in his opinion, the United States has the right to explore space outside the Earth. "It's in our DNA to explore and to ask why things are the way they are," Nelson said.

NASA also explained that it will share the reports with the public and interact with them and experts on UAPs in order to get more concrete data on these objects.

The agency said its studies are based on scientific evidence. Therefore, it stressed that one of the main problems he found in his UFO research was the little data collected on the objects.