Nathalie Cabrol

It is a private-funded endeavor.

What NASA funds right now, which is a progress, is a search for technosignature, which means that when you are looking at the atmosphere of a planet, you look for some disequilibrium that could tell you that something is there.

But it's not going to fund...

an institute or whatnot that is looking for messages or other things like that.

And I think there was a pushback from the political arena

decades ago about that, at the time where all the flying saucers were coming out.

And then the SETI Institute got it started.

But now there is more of a willingness to look at the UAP, UFO, phenomenon from a scientific standpoint.

So much so that the government is actually seeking

some help from a scientific institution.

And there are programs to start looking into those phenomena.

And as a scientist, I am interested.

What I'm not interested in, again, Carl Sagan comes back here, I don't want to believe.

I want to know.

And so to know, you have to have a real experiment.

You have to have observation and you have things that are done the right way.

I don't want to have somebody that starts with what if as a question and then turns this what if into the only argument and the only conclusion there is.

You understand what I'm saying?

No, the mystery is there, but what I don't want is people taking advantage of the public and making money out of folklore.

No, they are.