NASA has commissioned a new independent study on so-referred to as “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs), a subject that has long fascinated the community and lately caught the focus of Congress.

The agency stated Thursday that UAPs – also known as unknown traveling objects or UFOs – are of curiosity for air security and nationwide protection, stressing that “there is no evidence” that the phenomena are “of extraterrestrial origin”.

The review, which is set to begin in the tumble and is expected to last about nine months, will look for to analyze “events in the sky that can't be recognized as plane or identified normal phenomena” by a “scientific perspective”, NASA claimed in a assertion.

The new UAP crew, led by astrophysicist David Spergel, will concentration on how most effective to collect knowledge and how the house agency can use it to far better recognize UAP in the long term in collaboration with experts from the scientific, aeronautical and analytical communities.

“Given very little observation, our initial task is just to obtain the most sturdy set of info we can,” Spergel mentioned.

NASA claimed the report would be released and stressed that although the analyze was agreed with the U.S. authorities, it is not component of a study of the phenomenon by the U.S. govt.

Past 12 months, the U.S. Section of Protection (DoD) introduced a eagerly awaited report by the Doing work Team on Unidentified Air Phenomena (UAPTF) on the matter, which determined at minimum 144 “unexplained” aerial phenomena in the very last two a long time.

The evaluation identified that UAPs pose a safety danger to air journey and could likely pose a hazard to U.S. countrywide security.

The Ministry of Protection has purchased a program to formalize the mission’s mission.

In Could, the U.S. Congress held its initial community debate on the subject in fifty percent a century.