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Avi Loeb, the polarizing Harvard cosmologist, has been appointed to lead a new White House scientific advisory council on UAPs — and the critics watching most closely aren't the usual skeptics. They're the people who have spent years inside the national security apparatus that Loeb is now supposed to interrogate.
Thirty years after a cigar-shaped object reportedly crashed near Varginha, Brazil, and military personnel allegedly recovered biological material, American campaigners are pressing Washington to release files it has never officially acknowledged holding — and a newly surfaced Pentagon document reveals just how hard the government has worked to keep UAP information from flowing upward.
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer whose alien theories have drawn sharp criticism from scientific peers, now leads the White House's new scientific advisory council on UFOs — a role that puts him at the center of the most consequential UAP transparency effort in decades, with almost no official explanation of how he got there or what authority the council actually holds.
The White House has picked Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb — a polarizing figure in both scientific and national security circles — to lead a new advisory council on UAP. The appointment illuminates a growing tension at the center of the disclosure push: who gets to define what the evidence means, and for whom.
The White House's appointment of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead a new UAP scientific advisory council has exposed a deepening fault line: between those who see it as genuine scientific progress and those who argue the entire disclosure architecture is designed to control, not reveal.
The Trump White House has handed a polarizing Harvard astronomer significant influence over the government's UFO inquiry, even as the Pentagon's own investigative office maintains it has found no evidence of alien life — a contradiction that sits at the center of the new UAP apparatus.