By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-06-20 12:51:16 | Updated at 2026-06-20 15:27:41
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The Trump administration has established a new panel to try and resolve Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena sightings and encounters.
Controversial Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will be among the new board’s advisors.
The freshly minted UAP Governance Board met for the first time Tuesday “to support the President’s directive on UAP transparency,” according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“The mission . . . is to serve as an interagency body that can use each member’s capabilities and unique authorities to cohesively address national security threats posed by UAP,” an ODNI official told The Post.
The board will “also integrate and optimize interagency processes involved in the investigation of UAP incidents and collection procedures used to analyze UAP data,” he said.
The executive branch effort will bring “together military, law enforcement, the Intelligence Community, and other civilian agencies,” according to the official.
The new cosmic council will also assist in the timely coordination and declassification of UAP-related information, according to the agency.
Loeb has been tapped to lead the new board’s UAP Science Advisory Council — a smaller working group within the newly founded organization.
Loeb has previously made headlines for ringing the alarm bell over interstellar object 3I/Atlas, which he suggested could be an alien ship sent from a far away planet to release probes of the Earth.
“The government is not a scientific organization. They don’t have first class scientists. So we can help them figure things out,” Loeb told The Post. “And if we realize the data is not good enough to say anything meaningful, we can tell [the government] what needs to be collected in the future.”
The board will proceed according to data, Loeb insisted, and not be distracted with public response or interest in the captivating subject matter.
“We should keep our eyes on the orbs not on the audience,” he said. “As you know when the Knicks won, they did it because they kept their eyes on the ball, not on the audience.”
The program will have no budget and will only have access to declassified information, but could be helpful in resolving outstanding cases such as the glowing mothership orb that allegedly released smaller orbs in 2023 near a sensitive national security site at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.
“The simplest explanation would be to say that these orbs might be drones that are capable of producing smaller drones. But [the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office] is saying that 40 percent of the phenomena that were observed cannot be explained by technologies the US possesses or that we know about from adversary nations,” Loeb said.
Loeb assembled an A-Team of scientists and UFO thinkers including noted skeptic Michael Shermer, Stanford’s Dr. Gary Nolan, and UAP aficionados from SUNY Albany Dr. Kevin Knuth and Dr. Matthew Szydagis.
Retired Rear Admiral Gallaudet, a longtime advocate of UFO disclosure, was also appointed to Loeb’s board of scientists and said the US government is overdue to take a scientific perspective on the apparently ongoing phenomenon.
“I am very pleased and not surprised as I have been calling on the Executive branch to prioritize UAP for years,” said Gallaudet.
