A Survey on Public Attitudes Toward the PURSUE UAP Records Release

During a congressional hearing on Wednesday, July 26, military witnesses and members of Congress called for greater US government transparency on UFOs. A whistleblower testified that the government is hiding evidence of non-human intelligence, a claim that the excerpt presents without independent verification. This refers to the July 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing, where David Grusch testified about alleged federal UAP retrieval programs. The government has publicly disputed claims of retrieved non-human craft, and the testimony's specifics remain unverified.

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.

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb was recruited by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish and lead a new UAP Science Advisory Council for the US government. The post references a UAP video sighting in the northeastern United States in July 2025 included in Pentagon and FBI-released files.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed to head a new White House group studying UFOs, now referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). The appointment reflects the federal shift in terminology from UFO to UAP that has developed in recent years. Loeb is known for his work on interstellar objects, including the 2017 object 'Oumuamua, and for arguing that some anomalous objects could be technological in origin. The excerpt does not give the group's mandate, full membership, funding, or access to government data. The formal scope and output of the group remain unverified in this report. Many anomalous sightings in past official reviews have received mundane explanations, so the group's eventual conclusions are still open.

Avi Loeb argues that UAP storytelling often resembles religious mythology—systems based on conviction rather than evidence—and distinguishes this from scientific inquiry, while acknowledging that scientists can hold both scientific and religious beliefs.

Avi Loeb, Harvard physicist and chair of the UAP Science team, discusses the seventh Pentagon UAP file release in a televised interview with Blake Burman on NewsNation aired October 23, 2026. The excerpt provides limited substantive details but indicates Loeb's commentary on recent government UAP disclosures.

Avi Loeb analyzed the seventh tranche of declassified UAP data released on October 23, 2026, by PURSUE. Unlike previous releases, this tranche contains no video evidence but includes 28 PDF files, including a historical report on findings at Skinwalker Ranch.

Avi Loeb discusses a poll of postdocs at Harvard & Smithsonian's Center for Astrophysics in which 90% prioritized finding extraterrestrial life over solving dark matter, and speculates on a possible connection between the two questions.