Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Could Account for Some UFO Sightings: Russian Space Chief

Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Could Account for Some UFO Sightings: Russian Space Chief
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 11, 2018. Yuri Kochetkov/AFP via Getty Images
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Dmitry Rogozin, the director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, said that some sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), colloquially referred to as UFOs, could be attributable to extraterrestrial intelligent life.

Rogozin said in a Russian televised interview, aired on June 11, that the Russian Academy of Sciences had been investigating and gathering information about UFO sightings. About 99.9 percent of the sightings were determined to be atmospheric or other physical phenomena and were unrelated to any kind of potentially intelligent life, he said.