Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Data map)

According to a report by CBS on the 24th, NASA announced that a group of scientists and experts on Monday (24th) local time began a new study of the "unidentified aerial phenomenon" (UAP), which has been previously It's called a UFO phenomenon (UFO). The nine-month study will "lay the groundwork for NASA and other organizations to study the nature of unidentified aerial phenomena in the future," NASA said.

According to the report, the team, which was made public on the 21st of this month, includes former astronaut Scott Kelly and 15 other scientists and experts whose research fields cover computational data science, physics, astrophysics, astronomy, Oceanography and several other disciplines. NASA said the study will focus only on unclassified data, with a report expected in mid-2023.

This work is conducted separately from the U.S. military's investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena. But NASA has revealed that it "coordinates extensively with the government" to study unidentified aerial phenomena.