Why I Agreed to Lead the UAP Science Advisory Council for the U.S. Government

The Department of War has established a new legally protected pathway enabling U.S. government personnel to disclose UAP-related national defense information. The waiver creates official protection for potential insiders seeking to share sensitive UAP data.

President Trump directed the Department of War and intelligence community via a national security presidential memo to waive prior nondisclosure agreements for former government employees and contractors involved in UAP study, enabling them to disclose relevant information to designated officials.

Following President Trump's directive, the US Department of War and Office of the Director of National Intelligence launched PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters), an unprecedented effort to find, review, declassify, and publicly release unresolved UAP-related records. A public survey on attitudes toward the PURSUE initiative was conducted.

Coverage of a 2026 UFO/UAP press conference addressing claims of nonhuman biologics, secret crash retrieval programs, and decades-long government cover-up.

On February 19, 2026, President Donald Trump authorized the Pentagon and other agencies to begin gathering all files related to UFO and UAP, announcing the directive via Truth Social. Trump stated the authorization was based on significant public interest in the topic.

Avi Loeb proposes an extension to the Loeb Classification Scale designed to assess anomalous objects for signs of extraterrestrial artificial intelligence (SETAI). The extended framework adds a preliminary step to determine whether observational data can support inferences about object control, then applies the existing Loeb Scale, and finally evaluates which control architectures are compatible with the recorded data, using three exclusion tests (T1–T3).

Avi Loeb participated in a panel discussion at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign on October 16–17, 2026, attended by nearly 1,500 people, examining factual and fictional aspects of alien spacecraft alongside panelists Sarah Edwards, Bill Odenkirk, and Ahmed Best.

Avi Loeb analyzes declassified infrared sensor videos from the PURSUE collection, identifying that over 8% of analyzed footage may depict birds rather than genuine UAPs, including analysis of wingbeat frequency patterns observed in a 2020 Middle East recording.

Avi Loeb is participating in a hybrid theatrical event called "We Interrupt This Program" at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, which uses a satirical play format to examine UAP storytelling versus factual reality.