The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday began an independent study on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), colloquially referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), with a new team of 16 people.
According to NASA, the study will focus solely on unclassified data.
The team of 16 will, over nine months, study how data on UAPs gathered by civilian government entities, commercial data, and data from other sources, can be analyzed.
“Exploring the unknown in space and the atmosphere is at the heart of who we are at NASA,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement….