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New York (CNN Business) -
During his first month in office, NASA's new chief launched an initiative to further study unidentified flying objects.
Bill Nelson, a former Florida senator and space flight veteran, told CNN Business's Rachel Crane in an interview last Thursday that it is unclear to anyone - even at the top levels of the US space agency. what are the high-speed objects observed by the Navy pilots.
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Nelson added that he does not believe that UFOs are evidence of extraterrestrial life visiting Earth.
"I think I'd know" if that was the case, the NASA chief said about UFOs.
But he acknowledged that it would be premature to rule it out as a possibility.
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Nelson's comments echo the findings of a new Pentagon report that is due to be released later this month.
Five sources familiar with the results of that study told CNN that US intelligence officials found no evidence that UFOs are alien spacecraft, but researchers have also not reached a definitive assessment of what these might be. mysterious objects.
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We don't know if it is extraterrestrial.
We do not know if it is an enemy.
We don't know if it's an optical phenomenon, ”Nelson said.
"We do not believe [it is an optical phenomenon] because of the characteristics that the Navy jet pilots described ... and the bottom line is that we want to know."
NASA press secretary Jackie McGuinness said Nelson did not establish a formal task force to begin investigating UFOs.
However, he did order investigators to move forward in exploring any question lines on the subject that seem appropriate.
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"There really isn't much data and ... scientists should be free to follow these leads, and they shouldn't be stigmatized," McGuinness said, acknowledging that UFO research can be negatively associated with unfounded conspiracy theories.
"This is a really interesting phenomenon and the Americans are clearly interested in it [so] if scientists want to do research, they should do it."
Videos of UFO sightings
UFOs have long been an object of fascination in the United States and abroad, and that obsession was fueled in 2017 by an explosive
New York Times report
of numerous incidents in which US military pilots observed objects. mysterious and oblong ones that moved at high speeds, as well as a secret government investigation into the subject.
One of the most famous sightings, captured in a 2004 video dubbed the "Tic Tac" due to the great resemblance of UFOs to cylindrical mints, shows the small ghostly object popping out of frame, seeming to defy "normal laws of life. physics, ”as the pilot who captured the images told
New York Magazine
in 2019.
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Another video, captured in 2015 by a US Navy Super Hornet fighter jet and published by the
Times
in 2019, shows a strange round object flying directly into 120mph winds.
In the video, the pilots can be heard shouting expletives as they wonder aloud if they are seeing a drone before the object stops, floats and tilts eerily forward.
Nelson said NASA is not working directly with the Pentagon on that report, but said that if NASA scientists can make progress in identifying the objects, "the Pentagon will know."
'People tend to underestimate nature'
During a press conference on Wednesday, Thomas Zurbuchen, an astrophysicist and associate administrator for science at NASA, indicated that he does not believe that UFOs are evidence of a technologically advanced alien civilization.
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'People tend to underestimate nature.
Nature is an amazing place where many miracles happen.
And once we understand, it's like, 'Why don't we think about that?'
"In the realm of science, we all deal with unidentified problems and objects ... Then, using the tools of science, we will do everything possible to advance our knowledge."
Kathy Lueders, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, chimed in to add jokingly, "If anyone knows how to design spacecraft like that, I'd love to talk to you."
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