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Why is Nasa looking into UFOs and what has it found so far?

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The Guardian

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Nasa held the first public meeting of a panel established to investigate sightings of UFOs. It came just before a whistleblower former intelligence official told the Debrief that the US government had ‘intact and partially intact’ craft of non-human origin. Ian Sample talks to Prof David Spergel, the independent chair of Nasa’s panel, about why this is happening now, what they hope to find and why there is so much stigma attached to this field. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that's fascinated us since humans first looked up at the night sky and this week it became a subject of heated debate yet again.

0:27.0

UFOs exist. The US government found quite a number of them, and they are indeed of non-human origin. Those are the

0:36.0

explosive allegations from a former intelligence officer tonight and a

0:39.7

whistleblower complaint that the Inspector general is taking very seriously.

0:44.0

David Grush led an analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena or

0:48.5

UAPs, that's UFOs to you and me, within the US Department of Defense Agency. He says the US government

0:55.5

have possession of intact and partially intact alien vehicles and even

1:00.5

claims they have evidence of alien life

1:03.0

retrieved from these craft.

1:05.2

Do we have bodies?

1:06.7

Do we have species of...

1:09.1

Well, naturally, when you recover something that's either landed or crashed, sometimes you encounter

1:16.4

dead pilots.

1:17.6

And believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds, it's true.

1:24.0

Back in April, a Pentagon official told senators that they found no credible evidence thus

1:29.8

far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics.

1:37.0

But this all comes at an interesting time for UFO watches.

1:42.0

Last week, the same top Pentagon Chief revealed that unidentified

1:45.5

metallic orb-like UAPs have been spotted all over the world.

1:51.3

This is a spherical orb, metallic in the Middle East,

1:55.0

2022.

1:57.0

This is a typical example of the thing that we see most of.

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