Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, seen after completing a year-long mission to Mars, in 2016, was one of 16 researchers selected for the study.
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Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, seen after completing a year-long mission to Mars, in 2016, was one of 16 researchers selected for the study.
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A team of 16 researchers will spend the next nine months studying unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, as part of a working group for NASA.
The study, which will use unclassified data, will lead to a report that will be made publicly available next year.
NASA research follows the Pentagon notification in July that it will set up an office to monitor UAP reports. And earlier this year, the National Assembly held a public hearing on UFOs for the first time in 50 years.
The selected research group including professors, scientists, an oceanographer and others studying space. Former NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Nadia Drake, a science journalist and contributing writer at National Geographyalso one of the members of the group.
According to a Press Release on Friday. Some of this data will come from what it describes as “civil government entities, commercial data, and data from other sources.”
Original NASA announced News of the upcoming study in June, said that the lack of existing research on UAP “makes it very difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events.”
The organization asserts that there is no evidence linking UAP to extraterrestrial life.
