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NASA’s UFO Report Shows They’re Serious About Finding Aliens

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“We want to shift the conversation about UAPs from sensationalism to science.”

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NASA doesn’t know what UFOs are—but it knows most of them aren't aliens.

As for the rest of the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)… who knows? “There’s missing data,” David Spergel, the chair of a

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