White House taps Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb to lead UFO advisory group
The White House has established a UAP Science Advisory Council led by Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist known for controversial claims about aliens, including that Oumuamua was an alien probe.
The White House, along with the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the intelligence community, has formed a new UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) Science Advisory Council. The council will be headed by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Its mission is to provide scientific reports and recommendations to the UAP Governing Board in order to "resolve the nature of UAP."
Loeb’s team includes not only physicists but also a pathologist, a computer scientist, a philosopher, a psychologist, and the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine. While Loeb’s academic credentials are strong, he has drawn attention in recent years for repeatedly claiming evidence of extraterrestrial life. He is best known for suggesting that the interstellar object Oumuamua was an alien probe and that small metal spheres recovered from the ocean were debris from an alien spacecraft.
Many in the scientific community dismiss Loeb as a fraud, crackpot, or grifter. Nevertheless, his Harvard affiliation and long career have lent him some legitimacy. The new council will operate under U.S. government agencies and aims to provide objective scientific analysis of unidentified phenomena.
