Lester Nare is a technologist and startup founder based in Los Angeles who serves as chief operating officer of the Disclosure Foundation, the nonprofit chaired by former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon that presses for government transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena. NewsNation has described him as the foundation's director of operations. He also co-hosts From First Principles, a weekly science podcast.

Nare was born in Montreal to Zimbabwean parents and graduated from Princeton University in 2014, where he studied visual arts and worked as a DJ and producer. He has spent more than a decade building software companies and is co-founder and chief operating officer of Steadworth, a fintech platform that helps home buyers find down-payment assistance. In July 2025 he and his Princeton classmate Krishna Choudhary, a physicist, launched From First Principles, which breaks down the week's research news. In March 2026 he shared a 40-minute UAP discussion from a crossover episode with two astrophysicists and another science communicator, saying the resistance he met showed how strong the stigma around the subject remained among scientists.

His writing on UAP policy goes back at least to 2023. That June, as the claims of whistleblower David Grusch became public, he published essays on congressional oversight and on holding intelligence committees accountable for alleged crash-retrieval programs. He lists among his projects the UAP Caucus website, an independent platform that states it is not affiliated with the House caucus of the same name and that has published guides to the UAP Disclosure Act, briefing packets for inspector-general sessions on Grusch's allegations and a white paper proposing a select committee on UAP.

At the Disclosure Foundation in 2026, Nare worked on congressional outreach, urging offices in April to request a classified UAP briefing that some members had already received. In May he praised the team behind the foundation's freedom-of-information request that, after the foundation challenged an initial denial, led the National Security Agency to release UAP records; the foundation said they ran to hundreds of pages, many once classified TOP SECRET UMBRA. That month he and executive director Jordan Flowers reviewed the Pentagon's second PURSUE release live on The Good Trouble Show. In June he previewed the 2026 Disclosure Forum on NewsNation Prime; the forum met on June 25 in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building.

Nare's part in the disclosure movement is organizational rather than investigative: he helps run a nonprofit that works directly with congressional offices while using a mainstream science show to argue that UAP deserves a hearing among working scientists. Both the UAP Caucus project and his foundation work treat disclosure chiefly as a matter of congressional procedure and access to records.