NASA said in June that it will assemble a group to investigate “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UFOs while stating that it does not think they are “extraterrestrial in origin.” The space agency has now announced the formation of a 16-member team to look at “unclassified sightings and other data acquired from civilian government and commercial sectors.”
David Spergel, former director of astrophysics at Prince University, will preside over the panel. Anamaria Berea, a research affiliate at the SETI Institute in Mountainview, California; former NASA astronaut and test pilot Scott Kelly; and others ranging from oceanographers to astrophysicists to scientific journalists are also members.
