According to NASA experts, UFOs may be “unfriendly” advanced technology.
Unidentified flying objects have been present in popular culture since the 1950s.
While many believe they could be the result of extraterrestrial life, some experts believe there could be other explanations and they could be planes from hostile countries.
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s longest-serving deputy administrator for the Science Missions Directorate, said he is still convinced something is up after reading numerous reports and speaking to witnesses. That reports the Telegraph.
Although, he says, it’s important to ask yourself if Chinese spy balloons are to blame.
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen is NASA’s longest-serving Deputy Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate
It comes after a US fighter pilot shot down one in February as it crossed the Atlantic.
He said, “We can’t ignore the whole balloon phenomenon, because if we ignore what we see, we are suddenly surprised.”
The UFO expert recently left NASA for ETH Zurich in his home country of Switzerland.
Before leaving, he thoroughly researched evidence of UFO sightings, such as a 1952 photograph of a sighting over Passaic, New Jersey.
Dr. Zurbuchen added: ‘I not only talked to pilots, I also talked to people who had made sightings and they were really convinced. I really felt like they were telling me the subjective truth. They didn’t lie, they didn’t make things up. I think they told me what they saw.
‘That there are unexplained phenomena is not a question for me. What they are and what they mean, and how we prove they exist is something that requires more work.
‘There could be several explanations. If we look at technology, it may not be friendly and we should know that. It could be technology from other places on Earth and that would be pretty scary.
“It could be a natural phenomenon, like luminescent clouds, or something we’ve never seen before, and that would be quite interesting, or it could be some kind of camera issue that’s occurring.”
There are some experts who believe that UFOs may actually be evidence of extraterrestrial life
Government officials believe surveillance operations by foreign powers and weather balloons or other airborne debris explain the most recent incidents of unidentified aerial phenomenon
Professor Greg Eghigian of Penn State University believes trends and events may have influenced UFO sightings.
He said: “Like most things in history, the answer is more likely to lie in a confluence of events and trends.
The discovery of thousands of exoplanets by astronomers since the 1990s has made life on other planets seem more likely than previously thought, and the development of drones has contributed to spikes in UFO sightings.
‘The development of new sensors and advanced espionage technologies has made it possible for armies to detect anomalies more accurately; it has also exacerbated concerns about bad actors overseeing military operations.
“And speculation about UFOs has always thrived in environments where the trustworthiness of authorities and experts has been questioned.”
However, there are still those who believe that UFOs really are evidence of extraterrestrial life, but that space agencies and governments have chosen to ignore or keep it a secret.
Dr. Rudolph Schild, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics, said: “In the mid-1960s, after becoming an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithosonian, I started hearing rumors that the bodies of aliens and the wreckage of their craft was studied at a special facility in Building 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“It was rumored that a senior colleague, with a joint appointment at Harvard’s physics department, had examined the wreckage and seen the bodies. When I questioned him, he got angry and wouldn’t talk about it.
The US Congressional hearings only confirmed what many of us had known for decades, or at least strongly suspected. The military has obtained alien bodies from the wreckage of UFOs.
“It goes without saying that if UAPs and aliens crashed on Earth, it is equally likely that they crashed on the surfaces of other planets, and that their remains and wreckage can be found on Mars.”