Dmitry Rogozin, the top of Russia's Roscosmos house company, has stated Russian officers are conducting research into UFO reviews.

The house company chief stated he was conscious of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) accounts offered by pilots and that these reviews usually got here again after take a look at flights.

Rogozin stated in an interview with the Rossiya-24 information channel that 99.9 % of all reviews had been later recognized as "atmospheric and different bodily phenomena" but additionally thought of that "we is likely to be a topic to some exterior commentary."

"We are able to examine micro organism, however we can be studied identical to micro organism," he added, in accordance with the Russian state-controlled TV community RT.

Dmitry Rogozin: Aliens Could Have Visited Earth
Russia's house company head has stated UFOs are being researched in Russia. On this mixture picture, Russian State Area Company of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin attends Russian-Chinese language assembly on the Jap Financial Discussion board in Vadivostok, Russia, September,11,2018 and a inventory picture (Inset) displaying a flying saucer.Mikhail Svetlov/Inventory / Getty Photos

His feedback come amid a flurry of UFO information from the US, the place officers have embraced a extra clear method to the subject. Protection chiefs say they need to take UFO reviews extra significantly since they probably pose a nationwide safety risk.

Rogozin stated on Rossiya-24: "If we discuss particular info of the so-called UFO [sightings], which could have taken place on Earth all through the historical past of mankind, which NASA speaks about, I want to say that these research have been performed and are being performed by our Russian Academy of Sciences amongst others. The info are collected and checked."

His feedback could have been translated from Russian.

He stated he had been involved with NASA previously to debate the UFO reviews and that officers there have been additionally of the opinion that "exterior commentary" of flight exercise had occurred. The Roscosmos director added that some pilots had taken out a pencil and paper to sketch what they'd seen, however he didn't describe any specific instances.

Rogozin is a powerful supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime and of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which he was criticized by former NASA astronaut and Worldwide Area Station commander Scott Kelly as a "shameful stain" on Roscosmos's legacy.

Final 12 months U.S. protection officers launched a report on UFO sightings offered by army pilots, virtually all of which had been unexplained. The report detailed how a few of the objects noticed appeared to exhibit uncommon flight traits and that there had been close to misses with pilots.

Final month, the U.S. held the primary congressional UFO listening to in a long time with officers reiterating the potential nationwide safety implications they pose. Officers stated they might not affirm what UFOs had been however had not come throughout any proof suggesting that they had been examples of alien life.

As Rogozin alluded to, NASA has additionally develop into extra clear about UFOs. The house company introduced final week that it's commissioning a workforce to look at the character and origins from a scientific perspective, beginning early within the fall.

In a press launch, NASA confused that there was not but any proof that UFOs are "extraterrestrial in origin."