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Nasa releases groundbreaking ‘UFO’ report as it pushes for improved tracking and use of AI in search for alien life
NASA has released its groundbreaking UFO report as the space agency pushes for improved tracking using artificial intelligence (AI) to help search for alien life.
The report, conducted by 16 experts from , examined how data about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, is collected across the government and private sectors.
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NASA defines UAPs as events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective.
The space agency highlights how the study of UAP presents a "unique scientific opportunity that demands a rigorous, evidence-based approach.
"Addressing this challenge will require new and robust data acquisition methods, advanced analysis techniques, a systematic reporting framework and reducing reporting stigma."
When discussing the report during Thursday's conference, Nasa boss Bill Nelson said the study did not determine that UAPs have an extraterrestrial origin.
"Coupled with incomplete data archiving and curation, this means that the origin of numerous UAP remain uncertain," the study said.
However, Nelson said that if Nasa finds evidence of alien life, you can "bet your boots" it will be disclosed to the public.
"While today is a significant step for Nasa, it's certainly not our final step," Nelson said.
The Nasa boss also said the space agency will utilize and machine learning (ML) to help search for alien life across the galaxy.
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Nelson said that Nasa research based on findings from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that there are at least a trillion Earth-like planets.
"In a universe that is so vast - of course, I believe that there is a replication of Earth somewhere out there," Nelson said.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
The report did not contain any eye-popping claims or address the congressional testimony that former intelligence officials alleged over the summer.
Whistleblower David Grusch made headlines in June after claiming the US government recovered non-human crafts and attempted to reverse-engineer them.
Grusch, a former Air Force veteran who served as an intelligence officer for 14 years, claimed that a top-secret UFO retrieval program is in possession of UAP aircrafts.
The former intelligence officer claimed to have conducted with 40 witnesses over a four-year period as evidence.
When asked about Grusch's claims, Nelson said: "Whatever he said, where's the evidence?
"A long time ago, there was a TV show, Jack Friday, and he used to say, 'Just the facts - show me the evidence.'"
'ALIEN CORPSES' DISPLAYED IN MEXICO
Two reported "non-human" corpses were displayed during a congressional hearing in on Tuesday.
The two small bodies were presented in window boxes at a congressional hearing on UFOs after being found in a mine in Cusco, , in 2017.
UFO enthusiast Jamie Maussan led the revelation, testifying under oath, claiming that the mummified figures are not part of our terrestrial evolution and are still unknown.
Maussan said the bodies, known as the Nazca mummies, are believed to be over 1,000 years old - and contain rare metals.
"These specimens are not part of our terrestrial evolution," he said.
"These aren't beings that were found after a UFO wreckage. They were found in diatom (algae) mines and were later fossilized."
Nasa study chair David Spergel said that he's only seen the reports on X, formerly known as , adding: "We don't know the nature of those samples."
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Spergel urged the Mexican government to make samples available to the world's scientific community for study.
"One of the main things we're trying to do here today is to move conjecture and conspiracy towards science and sanity, and you do that with data," Dan Evans, an assistant deputy associated administrator for research, said during the conference.
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