White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead new UFO study group

White House UFO adviser claims US government is baffled by 'bizarre' sightings

Professor Avi Loeb gained prominence in 2017 after the discovery of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system.

Harvard astronomer tapped to lead White House UFO council says US government 'baffled by what they are seeing' – Democratic Accent

Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer who was chosen last month by the White House to lead a UFO advisory council, believes he was brought on because federal officials are “baffled” by the many unidentified objects the U.S. military has captured over the past several decades. Loeb, known for arguing that alien spacecraft may have already reached Earth, said his newly-formed team of more than a dozen scientists is combing through four batches of publi…

Harvard astronomer tapped to lead White House UFO council says US government 'baffled by what they are seeing'

The Trump administration selected Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead a scientific council studying UFOs and unidentified anomalous phenomena for national security risks.

White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to run UFO group

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 "the intelligence community." The Council will provide scientific reports and advice to the UAP Governing Board, in an effort to "resolve the nature of UAP," or unidentified anomalous phenomena. On paper, Loeb's qualifications seem strong. And he's surrounded hi…

White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead new UFO study group

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, a new catch-all term for UFOs that might appear not just in the air but also in space or underwater. Loeb says the group is focused on evidence, instrumentation, data analysis and collection standards.The move follows recent Trump administration initiatives to bring more transparency to the topic of UFOs, or…