UAP Science Advisory Council
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OrgGovernment AgencyThe UAP Science Advisory Council is a 2026 ODNI-established expert group chaired by Avi Loeb to advise federal UAP analysis and data collection.
The UAP Science Advisory Council is a 2026 ODNI-established expert group chaired by Avi Loeb to advise federal UAP analysis and data collection.
The UAP Science Advisory Council is a federal expert group announced in 2026 and chaired by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Reporting initially described it as a White House body, but subsequent correction identified the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as the establishing institution, created in response to President Trump’s UAP transparency direction and coordinated with AARO, the FBI, and other agencies.
The council brings together specialists in astrophysics, instrumentation, artificial intelligence, numerical analysis, and related technical fields. Its purpose is advisory: members can recommend data standards, analytic methods, sensor strategies, and research priorities, while operational agencies retain custody of cases and classified systems. Its practical authority depends on a clear charter, access to relevant data, agency cooperation, conflict-of-interest controls, and a channel for reporting findings.
Loeb’s parallel leadership of the Galileo Project gives the council experience with ground-based scientific observation but also prompted debate over his public extraterrestrial hypotheses. Scientific advice is not an endorsement of a preferred explanation. The council’s value will come from testing competing hypotheses for UAP, including ordinary objects, sensor effects, foreign systems, and genuinely unresolved observations, with methods that can be inspected and repeated.
Because the council is new, claims about its success or conclusions are premature. Its institutional significance is the effort to place outside scientific expertise alongside defense and intelligence analysis after years of criticism about poor data and limited transparency. A credible outcome would include documented methods, disclosure of uncertainty, publication of unclassified results, and a boundary between advice based on accessible evidence and speculation that cannot yet be tested. Its first reports will therefore matter as much for defining a scientific workflow and public baseline as for any conclusion about particular cases.
[Retweeted] 🧵 Disclosure Foundation Chief Legal Officer Hunt Willis and other Foundation representatives were honored to recently brief the U.S. government's UAP Science Advisory Council (UAPSAC) on national security information and the PURSUE Initiative. The briefing examined the legal frameworks governing UAP disclosures, including a comparison of AARO and PURSUE, whistleblower protections, and congressional pathways to disclosure. We are making these materials publicly available at this t...
HOT TAKE! Now that @uncertainvector is part of the UAP Science Advisory Council, we can count military experiencers among the list of people involved. But I st [Quoted] NEWS: XPRIZE Chairman @PeterDiamandis is actively exploring the creation of a new XPRIZE for providing evidence of alien visitation. Harvard astronomer @ProfAviLoeb tells me that the criteria under discussion would require a winner to demonstrate the existence of technology created by a non-human intelligence. Loeb said he's i...
[Retweeted] 🚨UFO NEWS ~ Review of the latest UFO / UAP news, including details about Lue Elizondo confirming he is working for the U.S. government again, his lifelong crash retrieval secrecy oath, and his response to the controlled disclosure allegations along with Avi Loeb's push for a $10 million prize for proof of alien technology as he leads the new UAP Science Advisory Council. Link to suggested video is in 1st comment.
[Retweeted] Morning UFO News. LUE ELIZONDO - "I am employed with the US government. I work for the US government." Elizondo confirmed he was asked to return to Washington and is once again employed by the United States government, working behind the scenes on the UAP topic while continuing to advocate for disclosure and transparency. He remains bound by a lifelong secrecy document that specifically forbids discussion of crash retrieval programs—an obligation he states he will not violate. Cri...
"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] NEW: ex-Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves (@uncertainvector) is joining the administration's UAP Science Advisory Council ICYMI buried inside the XPRIZE article. Link below
Link to paper: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/JHM.pdf Released by the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) on September 18, 2026, includes six dots in an infrared video recorded from a military aircraft over the Qaruh Island near Kuwait, labeled DOW-UAP-PR135. The six objects do not beat together, and their frequencies span a range of 0.74 beats per second. The objects labeled A and C beat 7.85 times per second, E and F show 7.60–7.64 beats per second, B...
