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

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed to head the UAP Science Advisory Council, a group established by the White House and intelligence agencies to study unidentified anomalous phenomena. The Council includes experts from various fields and will advise the UAP Governing Board.

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 himself with a team from a variety of backgrounds. The Council includes not only physicists, but a pathologist, a computer scientist, a philosopher, a psychologist, and even the founding publisher of S … Read the full story at The Verge.