Nutty professor claims the US government has made him head of "UAP Science Advisory Council"

[muriel_volestrangler]

In other news about UFOs/UAPs, would you believe our government has formed a “UAP Science Advisory Council” to chase the nonexistent science behind the illusory flying saucers? Of course you would, because our current government is all about throwing stupid money after stupid ideas. Guess who they’ve appointed to run it…

Avi Loeb!

The three UAP file releases thus far attracted more than a billion views and a lot of chatter on social media. However, to paraphrase the wisdom of basketball players: “we must keep our eyes on the orbs, not the audience!”

What could be a better way of doing that than the establishment of a new “UAP Science Advisory Council” by the White House, AARO, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and all Intelligence Community members. This is not wishful thinking but a reality now. Over the past week, I was tasked by the above organizations to create a research team of young scientists who will serve on this council. The Council under my leadership includes the following members: Dr. Richard Cloete and Dr. Regina Sarmiento with expertise in data analysis and data management with AI tools, Prof. Matthew Szydagis with expertise in instrumentation and data collection, Dr. Devesh Nandal with expertise in numerical analysis and astrophysics and Dr. Omer Eldadi with expertise in data management, AI and human psychology. This constitutes an amazing A-team of exceptional scientists.

I would not want to be associated with anything endorsed by this administration, and I would not call any group of scientists picked by Avi Loeb to be exceptional anything other than exceptionally irrelevant. As usual, it’s a game of picking the biggest idiot you can find to run an organization. Bonus points if they’re an egotistical glory-hound.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/14/since-were-talking-about-ufos/

Loeb was the guy claiming Comet 3I/ATLAS that recently came through our solar system could be an extra-terrestrial spacecraft, and before that that he'd recovered strange nodules that could be of alien origin. He is, sadly, a professor at a respectable university, but is a publicity hound who pontificates way outside his expertise. Which does make his the kind of guy The Rapist would pick, admittedly.

NASAWatch points out that Loeb seems to be the only one announcing this, so it may be BS.

Link to tweet

"Why hasn't the White House or OSTP or NASA or DOD - or any other government department said anything about this council thing? "

[progressoid]

1. Oh boy.

So I just went down a reddit rabbit hole about Avi. Yikes.
Even the nutters are fighting about him.