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.
Considering that a UAP Media Advisory Council exists, I’d love to ask Walter here, @tomdelonge, and also @g_knapp if they’ve been offered to be part of it? Beca [Quoted] It would be a great day to tell the truth about UFOs!
[Retweeted] The Sol Foundation’s 2027 Symposium features Dr. Anita Goel, physicist, member of the US government's UAP Science Advisory Council, and chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym. A new and brilliant voice in the UAP conversation, Goel is an advocate for making UAP-related scientific and technological research a key aspect of what she calls the “fifth industrial revolution.” Register now to engage her and her colleagues, including Hal Puthoff and Karl Nell, in person: https://t.co/liqEzVJyp2
[Retweeted] The Sol Foundation’s 2027 Symposium features Dr. Anita Goel, physicist, member of the US government's UAP Science Advisory Council, and chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym. A new and brilliant voice in the UAP conversation, Goel is an advocate for making UAP-related scientific and technological research a key aspect of what she calls the “fifth industrial revolution.” Register now to engage her and her colleagues, including Hal Puthoff and Karl Nell, in person: https://t.co/liqEzVJyp2
Hmmm... are we seeing a break by @CBSNews on the UAP topic from the rest of the MSM pack? This weekend we have a CBS interview with UAP Science Advisory Council members, along with a generally favorable article. Not too long ago they produced some polling on the topic.
This is an outstanding interview. Congrats to Dr. Loeb & Dr. Szydagis https://t.co/OoqwNs0hp7 [Quoted] I was on CBS Sunday Morning alongside my brilliant fellow UAP Science Advisory Council members, Prof. Matthew Szydagis and our newest member, Ryan Graves (@uncertainvector), to discuss UAP and the Council’s work. I appreciate Stephen Miller’s (@StephenM) leadership in advancing the administration’s PURSUE initiative to bring greater transparency to UAP records. Our scientific efforts aim to...
[Retweeted] I was on CBS Sunday Morning alongside my brilliant fellow UAP Science Advisory Council members, Prof. Matthew Szydagis and our newest member, Ryan Graves (@uncertainvector), to discuss UAP and the Council’s work. I appreciate Stephen Miller’s (@StephenM) leadership in advancing the administration’s PURSUE initiative to bring greater transparency to UAP records. Our scientific efforts aim to build on this important work by bringing scientific analysis to the evidence made available.
I was on CBS Sunday Morning alongside my brilliant fellow UAP Science Advisory Council members, Prof. Matthew Szydagis and our newest member, Ryan Graves (@uncertainvector), to discuss UAP and the Council’s work. I appreciate Stephen Miller’s (@StephenM) leadership in advancing the administration’s PURSUE initiative to bring greater transparency to UAP records. Our scientific efforts aim to build on this important work by bringing scientific analysis to the evidence made available.
[Retweeted] I hope Kirkpatrick is being debriefed by @ProfAviLoeb's @UAPSAC. His public statements have raised more questions than they have answered. (The Pentagon promised to issue a report in 2025 addressing some of Kirkpatrick's assertions - including that the Air Force has covered up a longtime practice of misleading its own officers about UFOs and aliens - but to date no report has been published.)
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Tim Gallaudet told Sean Hannity that the U.S. government possesses more than a dozen recovered UAPs, along with non-human remains, and that [Quoted] As the only #oceanographer on the @UAPSAC that reports to the @dUSADNI, I feel obligated to explore the occurrence of anomalous phenomena in the #maritimedomain. Many thanks to @seanhannity & his team for hosting a first rate show! https://t.co/241IuL8VQv
[Retweeted] As the only #oceanographer on the @UAPSAC that reports to the @dUSADNI, I feel obligated to explore the occurrence of anomalous phenomena in the #maritimedomain. Many thanks to @seanhannity & his team for hosting a first rate show! https://t.co/241IuL8VQv
