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00:00 NASA has released a report on what it needs to better identify UFOs.
00:04 The panel studying UFOs recommending that the agency play a larger role in detecting
00:09 and studying mysterious airborne objects.
00:11 Let's take a listen to their press conference underwear.
00:13 The James Webb Space Telescope, which searches for exoplanets with signs of habitability.
00:23 We are looking for signs of life, past and present.
00:29 And it's in our DNA to explore and to ask why things are the way they are.
00:39 In June of last year, NASA commissioned an independent study team to examine unidentified
00:47 anomalous phenomena.
00:50 We did so with a few goals in mind.
00:54 First to examine how NASA can use our expertise and instruments to study UAP from a scientific
01:02 perspective.
01:04 Second, shift the conversation about UAP from sensationalism to science.
01:16 And to make sure that whatever we find or whatever we recommend, to make sure that information
01:26 is shared transparently around the world.
01:31 There's a global fascination with UAP.
01:36 On my travels, one of the first questions I often get is about these sightings.
01:45 And much of that fascination is due to the unknown nature of it.
01:52 Think about it.
01:53 Most UAP sightings result in very limited data.
01:57 That makes it even more difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of
02:03 UAP.
02:06 And so this independent study team brought together some of the world's leading scientists,
02:12 data and artificial intelligence experts, aerospace safety specialists, all with a specific
02:23 charge from me, which is to tell how to apply the full focus of science and data to UAP.
02:35 And this is the first time that NASA has taken concrete action to seriously look into UAP.
02:44 And this independent study team was just that, independent.
02:51 Now NASA has a statutory authority to look for life in the universe.
03:03 And when you think of the universe and especially what we have learned from the James Webb Space
03:09 Telescope, how vast that it is, we knew before, and it was a NASA scientist, Dr. John Mather,
03:19 who got the Nobel that determined that the universe was 13.8 billion years old.
03:28 And over the years, particularly accelerated in the last century, we have an understanding
03:37 that of course ours is not the only galaxy.
03:41 And there are billions and billions of galaxies and each of those galaxies, including our
03:48 own, have billions and billions of stars.
03:55 And with the James Webb looking at the exoplanets, we are now beginning to discover, and somewhere
04:06 out there, we will discover, another medium-sized stony planet around a medium-sized sun or
04:18 star at just the right distance, not too far, not too close, with a tilt in its axis that
04:28 rotates that has carbon that will have a habitable atmosphere.
04:39 If you ask me, do I believe there's life in a universe that is so vast that it's hard
04:47 for me to comprehend how big it is, my personal answer is yes.
04:55 But I asked some of our scientists.
04:58 As a matter of fact, the Washington Post editorial board asked us to come down to the question,
05:06 what is the mathematical probability that there is life out there in the universe?
05:13 And if you calculate in billions of stars, in billions of galaxies, that there's replicated
05:25 what I just said, another stony planet, the answer was, what's the likelihood?
05:35 At least a trillion.
05:38 That's from our scientists.
05:42 So we start this without any preconceived notions, but understanding that we're in a
05:51 world of discovery, and we have taken, we NASA, have taken for the first time concrete
05:59 action to seriously look into UAP.
06:05 And this independent study team is exactly that.
06:09 It's independent.
06:12 They work to develop recommendations about how NASA could better examine them from a
06:17 scientific perspective.
06:21 And the top takeaway from the study is that there is a lot more to learn.
06:26 The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial
06:33 origin.
06:36 But we don't know what these UAP are.
06:42 That's why I'm announcing that NASA has appointed a NASA director of UAP research.
06:51 They are being tasked with developing and overseeing the implementation of NASA's vision
06:59 for UAP research.
07:03 We will use NASA's expertise to work with other agencies to analyze UAP.
07:10 We will use AI and machine learning to search the skies for anomalies as we have been searching
07:19 the heavens and will continue to search the heavens for habitability.
07:26 And NASA will do this transparently.
07:31 So while today is a significant step for NASA, it's certainly not our final step.
07:37 And we're going to share more with you, and I want to introduce you to Dr. Nikki Fox,
07:43 who is the head of our science mission directorate.
07:47 Nikki.
07:48 (water splashing)