Harvard’s Avi Loeb has joined Donald Trump’s new UFO task force to help probe mysterious UAP sightings, bringing along his team of elite scientists
Donald Trump put together a brand-new task force to investigate mysterious cosmic sightings – and a controversial Harvard brainiac who thinks ET is tracking us has been signed up. Professor Avi Loeb is the headline-grabbing intellectual joining the elite White House circle.
The eccentric academic previously sent shockwaves through the scientific community by warning that an interstellar object named 3I/Atlas might actually be an alien mothership deployed to drop spy probes right onto Earth.
The polarising space expert has now been tipped to head up the freshly minted UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) Governance Board’s Science Advisory Council – a specialised sub-unit created to get to the bottom of spooky close encounters.
The high-powered space committee met for its inaugural session last Tuesday. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the top-secret huddle was called “to support the President’s directive on UAP transparency.”
An ODNI insider revealed that the main objective is to unite cross-agency intelligence, military branches, law enforcement and civilian bodies to confront potential national security risks flying in our skies.
Loeb believes the American government desperately needs his team of top-tier minds to separate science fiction from reality.
Speaking to the New York Post, he said: “The government is not a scientific organisation. They don’t have first class scientists. So we can help them figure things out.
“And if we realise the data is not good enough to say anything meaningful, we can tell [the government] what needs to be collected in the future.”
The operation is reportedly running on a zero-pound budget and will strictly examine files that have been cleared for declassification.
However, believers hope the council can solve terrifying cold cases, like the infamous “glowing mothership” incident in 2023, where a massive orb allegedly spat out smaller UFOs over a sensitive military base at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.
Weighing in on the chilling event, Loeb said: “The simplest explanation would be to say that these orbs might be drones that are capable of producing smaller drones.
“But [the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office] is saying that 40 percent of the phenomena that were observed cannot be explained by technologies the US possesses or that we know about from adversary nations.”
To tackle the mystery, the boffin has assembled a sci-fi A-Team featuring seasoned sceptic Michael Shermer, Stanford’s Dr Gary Nolan, alongside UAP academics Dr Kevin Knuth and Dr Matthew Szydagis.
They’re joined by retired Rear Admiral Gallaudet, a decorated military veteran who has spent years demanding the truth about what is lurking in our skies.
Gallaudet said: “I am very pleased and not surprised as I have been calling on the executive branch to prioritise UAP for years.”