A former senior NASA official now reviewing the space agency's archives for UFO material in the United States has warned that unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, pose a 'significant' national security risk and that NASA itself helped entrench a culture of stigma that kept scientists from speaking up.
The news came after Michael Gold, who once served as NASA's associate administrator for space policy and partnerships, told NewsNation's Reality Check that while he does not believe the agency ran organised UFO cover‑ups, its culture and silence contributed to decades of ridicule around the subject. That stigma, he argues, has cost the US time, data and possibly a technological edge in understanding what is actually in the skies.
