Editing Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis (section)

===NASA===
In June 2021, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that he had directed NASA scientists to investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.<ref name="nelson1">{{Cite web |date=2021-06-08 |title=EarthSky {{!}} NASA and UFOs: Space agency to take closer look |url=https://earthsky.org/human-world/nasa-and-ufos-bill-nelson/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=earthsky.org |language=en-US}}</ref> During an interview at the University of Virginia, Bill Nelson explored the possibility that UAP could represent extraterrestrial technology.<ref name="nelson2">{{Cite web |date=2021-10-20 |title=Space Jam: Former Senator Talks Aliens, Asteroids and 'Star Trek' With Larry Sabato |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/space-jam-former-senator-talks-aliens-asteroids-and-star-trek-larry-sabato |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=UVA Today |language=en}}</ref>

NASA scientist Ravi Kopparapu advocates studying UAP.<ref name="Ravi1">{{Cite news |title=Opinion {{!}} We're asking the wrong questions about UFOs |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/26/we-need-put-science-center-ufo-question/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> {{blockquote|text=We need to frame the current UAP/UFO question with the same level of active inquiry, one involving experts from academia in disciplines including astronomy, meteorology and physics, as well as industry and government professionals with knowledge of military aircraft, remote sensing from the ground and satellite observations. Participants would need to be agnostic toward any specific explanations with a primary goal of collecting enough data — including visual, infrared, radar and other possible observations — to eventually allow us to deduce the identity of such UAP. Following this agnostic approach, and relying upon sound scientific and peer-reviewed methods, would go a long way toward lifting the taboo in mainstream science. }}

In August 2021, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Aviation, Kopparapu presented a paper<ref name= "Mcdonald1">James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, (December, 1969) http://noufors.com/Documents/scienceindefault.pdfstating{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 134th Meeting General Symposium that supported ETH. Kopparapu stated he and his colleagues found the paper "perfectly credible".<ref name="Ravi2">{{Citation |title=Science of UAP: Past and Present ~ Ravi Kopperapu, Ph.D. AIAA AV21 UAP session | date=18 August 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJiFhazryiA |access-date=2023-05-04 |language=en}}</ref>