The White House has established a new UAP Governance Board to deal with unexplained sightings and encounters, with the panel meeting for the first time on Tuesday and Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb among its advisers. The move folds a long running fringe obsession into the machinery of government, and does it with a straight face.
The Trump administration has been leaning into the language of transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, while building a separate science advisory council to sit alongside the new board. According to an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the mission is to serve as an 'interagency body' that can pull together the different powers of military, law enforcement, intelligence and civilian agencies. The same official said the aim is also to improve how UAP incidents are investigated and how data is collected and analysed.
