Avi Loeb, who served as the Chair of the Department of Astronomy until 2020, will head the new "UAP Science Advisory Council." The council will "advise the U.S. government on how to resolve the nature of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)," Loeb said on Medium.
The Council’s creation is part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to increase government transparency around UFOs. In May and June, the Pentagon released three batches of "never-before-seen" files on unidentified flying objects.
WHO IS AVI LOEB?
Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He was the longest serving chair of the Department of Astronomy, serving from 2011 — 2020, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation.
Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, is pictured in 2022.
Loeb’s research interests include first stars and galaxies, black holes and extraterrestrial life.
In recent years, it’s this last interest that has landed him in some controversy. He started the Galileo Project at Harvard, which looks for extraterrestrial technological artifacts, and in 2023, his team found tiny spheres on the bottom of the ocean that Loeb believed could be proof of alien life, but that other scholars thought was coal ash.
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