Two Pentagon officials testified on May 17 at the first congressional hearing on UFOs in a half-century. government issued a report, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in conjunction with a Navy-led task force, detailing observations mostly by Navy personnel of “unidentified aerial phenomenon,' or UAPs. The announcement comes a year after the U.S. 'That’s the very definition of what science is. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown.

We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said: 'NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also. However, NASA has confirmed that all the phenomena that have occurred till now are not extraterrestrial. They will spend nine months delving into the unexplained, and the team will then provide a detailed report. The team will be formed in a while and meet later this year. LIVE NOW: We’re commissioning a team to study unidentified aerial phenomena-observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena. They have roped in David Spergel, a scientist who previously led Princeton University's astrophysics department, and Daniel Evans, a senior researcher at NASA's Science Mission Directorate to head this task force. On their official page, they revealed that work was underway to look deeper into 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' which it says need to be taken seriously. The space agency has announced that it is putting together a special team to look into UFOs. So now, NASA has taken all of those stories and pieces of evidence seriously to answer the million-dollar question. There are several conspiracy theories around extra-terrestrial objects and aliens.

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