Are there aliens? NASA will today release the findings of a long-awaited study of more than 800 UFO sightings over three decades

NASA will today release the findings of its long-awaited investigation into more than 800 sightings of UFOs over the past thirty years.

The US space agency announced last year that it was investigating evidence of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), commonly known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

These are defined as observations ‘that cannot be identified from a scientific perspective as aircraft or known natural phenomena’.

In May, NASA’s independent research team shared their preliminary observations: that up to 98 percent of reported UAP sightings can be explained away.

Only 2 to 5 percent are considered “possibly very abnormal,” the panel added, but a lack of high-quality data is hampering researchers’ ability to apply “rigorous scientific inquiry” to solving mysteries.

Feedback: In May, NASA’s independent research team (pictured) revealed their preliminary observations – that up to 98 percent of reported UAP sightings can be explained away

These truly unexplained UAPs are defined as “anything that is not easily understood by the operator or the sensor” or “something that does something strange,” team member Nadia Drake said earlier this year.

Today’s report is unlikely to provide groundbreaking new information that was not revealed at the first public meeting in May. but it could ultimately mark the beginning of a new mission for the US space agency.

While NASA’s probes and rovers are currently scouring the solar system for any sign of extraterrestrial life, its historical stance has been to “debunk” observations on our home planet.

However, the U.S. government has begun to take UAPs more seriously in recent years, partly due to concerns that some of them could be linked to foreign surveillance.

The Pentagon has received 350 reports of UFOs in the past two years, and 171 of them remain unexplained.

NASA’s investigation is separate from the Pentagon’s investigation into UAPs, in which US lawmakers heard firsthand accounts of UFO sightings from former service members earlier this year.

The U.S. Space Agency panel is leading the civilian, unclassified side of the effort, while the U.S. Department of Defense has convened a government body to investigate UAPs in coordination with the intelligence and military communities.

NASA has assembled an independent team of 16 scientific, aeronautical and data analytics experts with the aim of analyzing observations of UAPs from a logical and scientific perspective.

“We have access to a wide range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific research,” the space agency’s Thomas Zurbuchen said last year before the study began.

“We have the tools and team that can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That is exactly the definition of what science is. That is what we do.’

Interesting: Earlier this year, the Ministry of Defense released a document revealing the ‘UFO hotspots in the world’. It includes a map showing where the most sightings of unidentified objects have been recorded, based on reports between 1996 and 2023

Classified report: NASA’s investigation is separate from Pentagon investigation into UAPs (photo)

A flying object near Japan’s Senganmori Mountain, highlighted by the International UFO Lab

The report will be published today at 09:30 ET (14:30 BST).

This will be followed by a media briefing at NASA Headquarters in Washington starting at 10:00 AM ET (3:00 PM), where the panel will discuss its findings.

The press conference will be streamed live on NASA Television, the NASA app and the agency’s website here.

“We recognize that public interest in UAPs is high and demand for answers is high,” Daniel Evans, the NASA official responsible for the study, said in May.

“It is now our collective responsibility to investigate these events with the rigorous scientific investigation they deserve.”

He added: “All of NASA’s data is available to the public – we take that commitment seriously – and we make it easily accessible for anyone to see or study.”

A former intelligence official said the DoD is covering up evidence related to aliens

The US government has been forced in recent months to take the presence of unidentified flying objects more seriously.

Former intelligence official David Grusch testified under oath in July that the Pentagon had firsthand experience or knowledge of secret government programs involving technology that is “non-human.”

‘My testimony is based on information I received from individuals with a long track record of legitimacy… who have shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation and secret oral testimony against myself and many different colleagues . Grusch said, adding that he was driven to share by a “commitment to truth and transparency.”

The release comes about a month after David Grusch alleged that the Pentagon is covering up evidence related to aliens in stunning testimony before Congress.

“I ask Congress to hold our government to this standard and thoroughly investigate these claims,” he told lawmakers at the time. “But now that I’m under oath here, I speak with the facts as I was told.”

He told the committee that he and more than 30 crew members and veterans had experience with UAPs, unidentified anomalous phenomena, along with members of Congress who had confided in him.

He also claimed that the government has “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles, although he provided no evidence to support that or any other claim.

He suggested that the American people had been kept in the dark for almost a century and claimed that the first discovery of a UFO in Magenta, Italy, occurred in 1933.

An artist’s impression of the alleged 1933 UFO crash outside Magenta in northern Italy shows a saucer-shaped spacecraft

He said Mussolini’s Italian government held on to this power until 1944 and 1945, when Pope Pius XII tipped America off.

Asked if he firmly believed the government had UAPs, Grusch said, “Absolutely.”

He said his opinion was based on interviews with at least 40 witnesses.

When asked where the vessels are located, he said, “I know the exact locations and those locations have been reported to the Inspector General… I have given the people with first-hand knowledge a protected disclosure to the Inspector General have it provided.’

He further claimed that he faced brutal retaliation after coming forward about his first-hand accounts of UFOs.

“I am aware of active planned retaliation against myself and other colleagues,” Grusch said.

‘There were certain colleagues of mine who were brutally attacked administratively. It upsets me as a leader to see this happening to other colleagues and superiors of mine over the past three years.”