There's still a stigma associated with the topic of UFOs, he says. The military pilots who reported tic-tac said they felt stigmatized for reporting events. He hopes NASA will help reduce some of that stigma by getting involved in this issue.
Last week, Nasa held the first public meeting of a panel established to investigate sightings of UFOs. It came just before a whistleblower former intelligence official told the Debrief that the US government had ‘intact and partially intact’ craft of non-human origin. Ian Sample talks to Prof David Spergel, the independent chair of Nasa’s panel, about why this is happening now, what they hope to find and why there is so much stigma attached to this field. Help support our independent journalism at
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