A breakthrough in scientific research into extraterrestrial life could be on the horizon, leading scientists have said, as both political and scientific minds delve into the murky world of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) with new determination.
UFOs refer to aerial phenomena that cannot be immediately identified or explained, while the term UAPs is broader.
"Within our lifetime—even very soon—I think we are going to discover if there is life on other planets," Ravi Kopparapu, planetary scientist with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, told Newsweek.
We are approaching a "golden moment" to which more and more scientific minds are turning their attention, he said.
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