NASA boss admits agency has captured images of UFOs saying 'we don't know what it is'

NASA boss Jared Isaacman has admitted that the US space agency has captured images of objects that ‘we don’t know what it is’ - in other words UFOs.

Isaacman took the top job at NASA in December last year and has overseen some incredible projects, including the recent Artemis II mission.

The 43-year-old was also the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk, when he led the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission in 2024.

So, if anyone knows a thing or two about UFOs and potential alien life forms it should be this guy, right?

During a recent appearance on Jack Gordon’s podcast, Isaacman was quizzed on the existence of UFOs.

A topic that’s recently been hitting the headlines after President Donald Trump released ‘never-before-seen’ footage of UFOs in fresh files a few weeks back.

We might never know what it is, but now you can look at it (DoW)

When asked for his thoughts on UFOs, Isaacman said: “I can’t hate the subject.

"In fact, I'm incredibly fascinated by it because that is at the heart of what we're trying to do at NASA."

He went on to say that NASA had taken images that showed unknown objects that couldn’t be explained away as comets or satellites.

“We have captured imagery - and this is what President Trump is very forward-leaning about - that based on the data that we have within that imagery, we don't know what it is,” he admitted.

NASA has previously denied having any evidence that suggests UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.

And Isaacman backed this up, saying that he hadn’t seen any evidence that pointed towards alien life, but that he remains optimistic that we’ll do so within our lifetime.

He continued: “I think there's a very real possibility we're going to arrive at a conclusion in our lifetime that perhaps there's life everywhere out there and that it isn't as infrequent as we might think it to possibly be.”

He even thinks that some recently collected samples from Mars could hold key evidence.

This image was taken by the Apollo 12 mission (DoW)

“We got samples on Mars right now. If we bring them back, there is a very high probability that they will point to, at some point, microbial life at least on Mars,” he said.

Looking to the future of space exploration, the NASA chief said that he does ‘not believe it is our destiny to remain on one planet’.

In recent weeks, the Pentagon has released batches of images, data, and other files that are related to UFOs, which NASA now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).

The first batch of files contained 162 documents and included pictures taken by the Apollo 12 and 17 missions.

Some of the pictures show oddly shaped objects highlighted in the horizon above the surface of the Moon.

Whether they're stars, some other space object or an alien spacecraft they're certainly unidentified, which is good enough for them to be included in these files.

Isaacman said it was Trump's idea to get the information out there to the public.

"We did keep a lot of that buried in files somewhere, and the president said, ‘Why? Put it out there. We don't have time to study it. Let other people tell us what it is,’ and you're seeing that effort. And you're going to continue to see it," Isaacman said.