The US Department of Defense is boosting its efforts to learn more about UFOs, with a new task force dedicated to studying UFOs. The group has been named Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), which was announced via DoD press release.

The prime goal will be to “detect, identify and attribute objects of interests” spotted in military airspace. More precisely, it will study the origins of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – which is the US government’s term for UFOs.

Are UFOs really from other worlds?

AOIMSG will follow the path of the US Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, which was created to study “UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security,” as per an August press release from the DoD.

To be clear – some UFOs could be advanced tech from Earth, and most are probably glitches and optical illusions, but it’s not unlikely that any come from other worlds. Still, the announcement does follow a wave of renewed political and public interest. Previously the government also showed interest in providing a detailed report about these sightings.

Searching for extraterrestrial life

Previously, NASA’s top scientists reached out to the scientific community asking them to put a plan in place for when we find evidence of alien life. James Green, the agency’s chief scientist, co-authored a new article that urges researchers to create a framework for reporting evidence of extraterrestrial life. The article has been published in the journal Nature.

Green and other authors propose a confidence of life detection (CoLD) scale that will help evaluate any evidence that is discovered. The scale will feature seven levels, where each level represents a benchmark that must be met before it goes to the next step.

Recently, astrophysicist Paul Sutter insisted that the search for intelligent life among the stars should be stopped – though, he did not mean that we are alone in the universe. The idea behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), as per Sutter, is based on the theory that “intelligent life should be easier to detect than regular, non-intelligent life because intelligent creatures are capable of really making their presence known.”