(WWJ) – NASA has acknowledged that the search for UFOs – or UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), as they call them – is underway.
The space agency last week announced it has selected 16 scientists to look at what some explanations could be for UAPs – events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena are categorized as UAPs.
On a new edition of “All Over the Space,” Mike Murray of the Delta College Planetarium in Bay City tells WWJ’s Erin Vee it’s big, big news.
He says the point behind the panel is to bring in actual scientists as opposed to “self-proclaimed experts of UFOs” who might say something like “oh, just because we see something wild whipping around the sky, that automatically means it’s extraterrestrial life coming down to steal our cows.”
He says NASA’s acknowledgement – the first beyond what we heard in Capitol Hill testimony – is important.
“That’s what’s so exciting about this, is we can finally get a little bit more in-depth view of what some of these things might be,” Murray said. “And even though some of them will still go unexplained, that just means we need more data, we need more information, we need more evidence.”
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He was asked a question many of us have probably pondered at some point – how would the world react if we did indeed find extraterrestrial life out there?
“I’m glad you asked that. When you look at the various different factions and beliefs and systems that are out there, I think you’d see a wild mix of scientific excitement but also paranoia and some countries mobilizing, worried that there might be an invasion,” he said. “‘War of the Worlds’ or something might come to their minds. And yet also there’d probably also be a huge political craze and a media frenzy and cults and who knows what else might come out of it.”
At the very least, Murray says, NASA’s studies on extraterrestrial life will “open our eyes to the fact that we are not alone and that there is or could be other intelligent life that’s capable of traveling vast distances to actually make first contact.”
Also on this week’s episode, they dove into the latest stunning images from the James Webb Telescope and talked about the upcoming lunar eclipse, which will be the last total eclipse visible in the U.S. until 2025.
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