A long-awaited report by Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force is set to be released next month — the culmination of years of inquiries by lawmakers and decades of reports of unexplained sightings made by military pilots.

Numerous officials have raised concerns over the sightings, arguing that adversaries may be behind them, invading US airspace without our knowledge.

And now even a NASA scientist is weighing in.

In a Washington Post opinion piece, planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ravi Kopparapu argues that rather than starting with the “what” question about UFOs, it would be more effective to start by “asking how we can figure out what they are.”

“This is where scientists, notably absent from the current UAP conversation, come in,” Kopparapu argues. For too long, he says, the topic of UFOs been disregarded as baseless conspiracy, driven by a “vacuum of knowledge that is being filled by unscientific claims thanks to a lack of scientific investigation.”

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