SOL Foundation
OrgNonprofitSOL Foundation
OrgNonprofitThe Sol Foundation is a nonprofit research and policy institute founded to study UAP and develop academic, governmental, and public responses to the subject.
The Sol Foundation is a nonprofit research and policy institute founded to study UAP and develop academic, governmental, and public responses to the subject.
Dr. Garry Nolan
The Sol Foundation is a nonprofit research and policy organization established in 2022 by Stanford professor Garry Nolan and anthropologist Peter Skafish. It was created after UAP reporting and legislation moved the subject into formal government debate. The foundation seeks to bring scholars, former officials, technical experts, and policy practitioners into work that can be presented in academic and governmental settings.
Sol organizes symposia, publishes white papers and video presentations, supports research, and develops policy recommendations. Its programs range across scientific methods, national security, law, anthropology, theology, ocean and space domains, and the possible social consequences of disclosure. That multidisciplinary approach treats UAP as both an empirical problem and an institutional one. It also risks moving from unresolved observations to broad implications faster than the underlying data justify, so each project must be judged by its methods and evidence.
The foundation has provided a public platform for officials, journalists, scientists, and alleged whistleblowers associated with UAP disclosure. Its leadership has advocated stronger records review, protection for witnesses, and sustained congressional oversight. Conference testimony and interviews preserve what speakers were willing to state publicly; the foundation’s sponsorship does not independently validate claims about classified retrieval or reverse-engineering programs.
Sol’s importance lies in attempting to create durable intellectual and policy infrastructure around a subject long dominated by episodic media attention. Its affiliations can open doors to expertise and decision-makers, while its proximity to disclosure advocates makes transparent governance and funding especially important. The organization’s long-term standing will depend on whether its publications produce reproducible research, precise legal analysis, and recommendations useful even when the most extraordinary hypotheses remain unproven. Its convening role is itself measurable through the scholarship, partnerships, and policy work that continue after a symposium ends.
[Retweeted] CLASSIFIED PRESIDENTIAL UAP DIRECTIVE? What Peter Skafish of @_SolFoundation says here (10-8-26) is interesting: He describes a recent, government-wide, classified executive directive dealing with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). But it is not clear to me what purpose he thinks might be served by filing a FOIA request for such a directive. Classified material is exempt from FOIA, and so too generally are presidential and National Security Council documents. Even a request f...
"I don't think this was crafted to create exceptions that would allow...the Intelligence Community to kind of wriggle out of this." ~PS 🛸 Good News Coming? 🛸 [Quoted] UAP Science Advisory Council member Peter Skafish says that a classified version of the UFO whistleblower NDA waiver exists that the public hasn’t seen and someone should FOIA it “it's really the executive directive that, that governs this. Now, I found out from the person that, that helped draft it, that it's classified. And...
I filed a case on September 14 that would encompass a classified waiver, should it exist. https://t.co/XSSSWQ8d2j [Quoted] UAP Science Advisory Council member Peter Skafish says that a classified version of the UFO whistleblower NDA waiver exists that the public hasn’t seen and someone should FOIA it “it's really the executive directive that, that governs this. Now, I found out from the person that, that helped draft it, that it's classified. And the person said to me, "Well, it'll be interes...
[Retweeted] UAP Science Advisory Council member Peter Skafish says that a classified version of the UFO whistleblower NDA waiver exists that the public hasn’t seen and someone should FOIA it “it's really the executive directive that, that governs this. Now, I found out from the person that, that helped draft it, that it's classified. And the person said to me, "Well, it'll be interesting if somebody tried to FOIA." “SOL Foundation has not tried to FOIA it yet. Someone should start trying to F...
A classified version or UFO Whistleblowers’ NDA waivers is news to me. Gee I wonder if the FOIA wizards will come to the rescue… https://t.co/7DmAHIxqJI [Quoted] UAP Science Advisory Council member Peter Skafish says that a classified version of the UFO whistleblower NDA waiver exists that the public hasn’t seen and someone should FOIA it “it's really the executive directive that, that governs this. Now, I found out from the person that, that helped draft it, that it's classified. And the per...
[Retweeted] The White House's PURSUE initiative has brought new momentum to UAP disclosure, but major challenges remain. Sol's Peter Skafish and Marik von Rennenkampff discuss the state of the effort, recent records releases, and what must happen next. https://t.co/jevk86NaHP
New Developments in the UAP Disclosure Effort with Peter Skafish and Marik von Rennenkampff
[Retweeted] The Sol Foundation's @GarryPNolan and Peter Skafish very much appreciated participating with @ProfAviLoeb and @uncertainvector in this event, organized by @PeterDiamandis and Lyn Lear, on UAP science and disclosure. https://t.co/kqivYob7Qh
[Retweeted] The Sol Foundation's @GarryPNolan and Peter Skafish very much appreciated participating with @ProfAviLoeb and @uncertainvector in this event, organized by @PeterDiamandis and Lyn Lear, on UAP science and disclosure. https://t.co/kqivYob7Qh
