White House appoints Harvard astronomer to lead UAP council

A Harvard astronomer appointed by the White House to lead a new advisory council says U.S. officials are baffled by decades of military observations of unidentified objects and are turning to scientists for answers. Professor Avi Loeb, who was selected last month to chair the UAP Science Advisory Council, stated that the government's outreach signals genuine uncertainty about the nature of these phenomena.

Loeb, who previously headed Harvard's astronomy department, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the fact officials are reaching out to scientists indicates they believe the objects may not be human-made. His team of more than a dozen experts from fields including data science, astrophysics, and oceanography is currently reviewing four batches of declassified materials on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) released by the Trump administration in recent months. UAP is the official term encompassing unexplained objects observed in the air, underwater, and in space.

The council's mission, which began in early June when an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence visited Loeb at his home, is to determine whether the observed phenomena represent...