Daily Brief: White House appoints Avi Loeb to lead UAP study

The White House has appointed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb to lead a new group tasked with studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) ^[6].

Avi Loeb has expressed skepticism regarding claims from a former Pentagon UFO investigator that the U.S. government has recovered non-human bodies and alien spacecraft, stating that he demands evidence for such assertions ^[1].

David Grusch and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are scheduled to gather at the Capitol on June 9 to demand stronger whistleblower protections, the UAP Disclosure Act, and the release of specific UFO files ^[2].

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has released Volume I of its Historical Record Report, which reviews official U.S. government investigatory efforts into UAP since 1945 ^[8].

A SETI Institute analysis argues that neither David Grusch nor other individuals claiming knowledge of secret government UAP programs have publicly produced convincing photographs to support their claims ^[4].