The much-anticipated UFO report released last Friday did not confirm or deny the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings, but NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says he thinks they’re out there somewhere.
And the biggest, most powerful telescope ever built could be the key to finding them.
Nelson – a former US senator and astronaut – was sworn in in May, just as buzz was building about the report.
Belief in unidentified flying objects has long been ridiculed, but the report to US Congress on 144 sightings from credible witnesses sparked global conversations about the potential existence of ET, and the possible technology developed by Earthly nations.
In an interview, Nelson told CNN that he was getting NASA scientists to look at videos taken by Navy pilots that appeared to show craft moving in unnatural ways.
He has also seen a longer, classified version of the report.
“What the report does tell us…is that there’ve been over 140 of these sightings, so naturally what I asked our scientists to do is to see if there’s any kind of explanation from a scientific point of view…and I’m awaiting their report,” he says, adding that he had also spoken to the pilots in his previous political role.
“My feeling is that there is clearly something there. It may not necessarily be an extraterrestrial, but if it is a technology that some of our adversaries have, then we’d better be concerned.”
Asked if he believed there was something out there, Nelson replied: “Are we alone? Personally, I don’t think we are. The universe is so big.
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