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Professor Avi Loeb discusses the implications of the White House's new UAP Science Advisory Council and the challenges of UAP science.

Recently, Professor Avi Loeb was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, and the FBI with assembling and leading a new UAP Science Advisory Council — comprising astrophysicists, AI experts, and psychologists — to advise the intelligence community on unidentified anomalous phenomena. It was announced the same week the government released its third batch of declassified UAP files. Now he joins us live to talk about what that actually means — and what it doesn't. This is not a "the aliens are here" stream. It's the harder conversation. I study the cosmic microwave background, and when we find an anomaly, we exhaust every instrument artifact and foreground before anyone whispers "new physics." I want to know why UAP science should run on a different evidentiary standard — and Loeb is exactly the right person to push on it, because he's already attributing much of the released footage to cosmic rays, balloons, and possibly Chinese drones, while holding the door open for the small fraction that stays unexplained. WHAT WE GET INTO: - The council, its mandate, and the question nobody's asking: does "advisory" mean anyone has to listen? - The orbs — Chinese surveillance drones, classified…

People in this episode

Host: Brian Keating

Guest: Avi Loeb

Topics covered

• UAP Council
• disclosure
• unidentified anomalous phenomena
• AI in science
• evidentiary standards

Keywords

• UAP
• disclosure
• Avi Loeb
• unidentified phenomena
• AI
• evidentiary standards
• cosmic rays

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: White House, AARO, ODNI, FBI, Galileo Project

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