Are We Alone? NASA Will Reveal Findings Of Its $100,000 UFO Study Today

NASA is all set to disclose the findings of its $100,000 study on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term for unidentified flying objects (UFO) that includes any aerial phenomenon that is not immediately identifiable.

What Happened: NASA will reveal the findings of its UFO study on Thursday (Sept. 14) at 10 a.m. ET in a press conference. NASA says it will also publish the full report online on its website.

The report will be based on the findings of a year-long study that NASA commissioned in 2022 – the team consists of field experts and former astronaut Scott Kelly.

The study aimed to help NASA with suggestions for collecting and analyzing UFO data, including determining their origin and nature.

According to NASA's definition, UAPs or UFOs are objects identified in the sky that cannot immediately be classified as aircraft or any other natural phenomena.

While UFOs could include aliens, it does not necessarily mean all UFOs or UAPs are aliens – it simply means an event that NASA or other agencies cannot immediately explain due to an extremely limited number of observations. This limits the ability to draw scientific conclusions; therefore, these events are classified as UAPs.

Why It Matters: The revelation of NASA's findings comes at a time when there has been a spurt in chatter about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mexican legislators held a hearing on UFOs and were even shown purported alien corpses by journalist Jaime Maussan. While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that these bodies are indeed those of aliens, Maussan claims that they are about 1,000 years old and were recovered in Peru.

NASA notes that this study does not include the analysis of any classified material – all the findings will be based on publicly available information, so if there are any juicy bits in classified files, we might have to wait longer for them.

You can watch the NASA briefing below.

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