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New NASA report lays out roadmap for studying UFOs

NASA is releasing a new report from advisers on what it would take for the agency to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (also known as UFOs) scientifically.
Saucer-like lenticular clouds appear over Turkiye's Bursa province in the early morning hours of January 19, 2023.

NASA should play a "prominent role" in the federal government's ongoing study of unidentified flying objects, aka UFOs.

That's the advice from a panel of outside advisors that urged NASA to use its scientific expertise, as well as its existing and planned instruments that observe space and the Earth, to better gather data related to what's now often called "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAP.

"We want to shift the conversation about UAPs from sensationalism to science," says NASA administrator , a former senator from Florida who once.

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