NASA Plans to Gather UFO Team to Probe ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’

NASA said on Thursday it plans to assemble a team of scientists to examine “unidentified aerial phenomena” — commonly termed UFOs — in the latest sign of the seriousness with which the US government is taking the issue.

The US space agency said the focus will be on identifying available data, the best ways to gather future data and how it can use that information to advance scientific understanding of the issue. NASA tapped David Spergel,…