WASHINGTON DC – China may be behind UFOs thanks to its ‘unfriendly’ advanced technology, the former head of Nasa’s unidentified flying objects inquiry believes.

Dr Thomas Zurbuchen, the space agency’s longest-serving administrator, was asked to head up the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena panel in 2022 and has offered his take on the findings. He also suggested that there could genuinely be evidence for life on other planets but appeared to point the finger elsewhere for recent events.

He said it was important to question whether Chinese spy balloons might be to blame, after one was shot down by US fighter pilots earlier this year. Dr Zurbuchen, who recently joined ETH Zurich, said explained that conversations convinced him that Extraterrestrial life could exist.

The Pentagon claimed the Chinese balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina in February was part of a large surveillance programme that China has been running for “a number of years”. China went on to claims it was a civilian balloon used for meteorological research and sharply criticised the US for shooting it down.

Dr Zurbuchen said: “The whole balloon phenomenon we cannot ignore because if we ignore what we see then we will suddenly get surprised. Not only did I talk to pilots, I talked to individuals who had sightings and they were really convinced. I really felt they told me the subjective truth – they were not lying, they were not making things up.

“The fact that there are unexplained phenomena is not a question for me. What they are and what they mean, and how we prove they exist is something that needs more work. There could be multiple explanations. If we are looking at technology then it may not be friendly and that is something we should know.

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