{"id":3608,"date":"2026-07-11T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:48:03","slug":"white-house-avi-loeb-aliens-ufo-uap-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"White House taps the guy who keeps crying \u2018aliens\u2019 to run UFO group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the <a href=\"https:\/\/uapsac.com\/\">UAP Science Advisory Council<\/a> established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and \u201cthe intelligence community.\u201d The Council will provide scientific reports and advice to the UAP Governing Board, in an effort to \u201cresolve the nature of UAP,\u201d or unidentified anomalous phenomena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">On paper, Loeb\u2019s qualifications seem strong. And he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/search-for-life\/white-house-appoints-harvard-astronomer-avi-loeb-to-lead-new-ufo-study-group\">surrounded himself<\/a> with a team from a variety of backgrounds. The Council includes not only physicists, but a pathologist, a computer scientist, a philosopher, a psychologist, and even the founding publisher of <em>Skeptic<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">His Harvard credentials and long career have granted him some legitimacy. But he\u2019s been making questionable claims about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/10\/21\/9585994\/nasa-kepler-white-dwarf-planet-discovery-virgo\">alien life<\/a> since at least 2015. Now he\u2019s best known for suggesting that Oumuamua was not an exo-comet, but an <a href=\"https:\/\/lweb.cfa.harvard.edu\/~loeb\/Loeb_Astrobiology.pdf\">alien probe<\/a>; and that small metal spheres found in the ocean were the wreckage of an <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/truth-harvard-astronomer-alien-spherules\/\">alien spacecraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/964478\/white-house-avi-loeb-aliens-ufo-uap-council\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and \u201cthe intelligence community.\u201d The Council will provide scientific reports and advice to the UAP Governing Board, in an effort to \u201cresolve the nature of UAP,\u201d or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46,74,75,169],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White House taps the guy who keeps crying \u2018aliens\u2019 to run UFO group - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avi Loeb is best known for making questionable claims about evidence of alien technology. 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