President Trump’s new UFO push just took a very interesting turn.
The administration has now stood up a new UAP Governance Board, pulling together federal muscle from the intelligence community, law enforcement, and the Pentagon side of the house.
In plain English: the government is no longer treating this as a scattered side issue.
It is being moved into a coordinated interagency lane, with national security, transparency, and hard data all on the table.
The New York Post reported that the Trump administration has launched the new panel to help resolve Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena sightings and encounters, with the fresh board already holding its first meeting this week.
The board is described as a coordinating body that brings together military, intelligence, law enforcement, and civilian agencies, giving the government one lane for information that used to move through separate departments.
That matters because UAP reports have long bounced between agencies, classification walls, and competing bureaucracies, leaving the public with fragments instead of a full process anyone can evaluate.
The new setup is designed to streamline investigations and data analysis while treating the issue as a national-security question, a transparency question, and a science question at the same time.
The Post said Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will advise the effort through a UAP Science Advisory Council.
The same report notes that the work is expected to use declassified information, which keeps the effort tied to public transparency instead of disappearing behind classified briefings.
It also points to the unresolved orb material that has kept this subject alive well beyond cable-TV speculation.
That combination is the hook here: a President Trump transparency push, an interagency board, and a credentialed science council aimed at evidence instead of folklore.
Cosmic Council: Trump creates UFO panel to be advised by Harvard's Avi Loeb https://t.co/oN354fLdYi pic.twitter.com/95CNUM2cGd
— New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2026
Loeb is not a random name in this space.
He has been one of the loudest academic voices arguing that unexplained objects should be studied with better instruments, better data, and less institutional eye-rolling.
The government is not announcing aliens.
It means the Trump administration is putting the question into a formal process where scientists, skeptics, and national-security officials can all test what the evidence actually shows.
DefenseScoop reported that Loeb and officials described the science council as supporting President Trump’s interagency UAP Governance Board, giving the new scientific group a direct role in the federal review process.
An ODNI official said the board was established alongside the FBI and DOD to coordinate guidance and recommendations across agencies, with military, law enforcement, intelligence, and civilian capabilities all feeding into the same structure.
The same report said the board met for the first time this week, making this more than a vague campaign promise or another batch of documents dropped on a government website.
Its mission includes improving the investigation of UAP incidents and the collection procedures used to analyze UAP data, which is the practical step needed before anyone can make credible claims about what these objects are.
DefenseScoop also noted that President Trump indicated in February he would direct Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files tied to alien life, UAPs, UFOs, and related material.
That gives this new board a clear timeline. The directive came first, then the files started moving, and now the government has a formal structure to handle whatever those files and future data show.
Three batches of UAP files have already been released through that initiative, according to the report: May 8, May 22, and June 12.
DefenseScoop also reported that the science council will advise the government while working with unclassified data, a key detail if the public is ever going to see more than vague official statements.
Why do we need a UAP Scientific Advisory Board?
As has been widely reported, the US government has asked Professor Avi Loeb, of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University (see the main announcement at the end of this posting), to create a UAP Advisory Council. The members…
— Garry P. Nolan (@GarryPNolan) June 20, 2026
One of the stranger pieces of the new material involves an AARO report dated June 5.
DefenseScoop reported that the material includes an October 2023 incident in which law enforcement officials observed an orange “mother” orb launching smaller red orbs.
Loeb said roughly 40 percent of the reported phenomena in that material lacked a reasonable explanation.
Again, this is evidence of an unresolved case, not evidence of an extraterrestrial conclusion.
Still, it is exactly the kind of data point that makes this more than late-night radio chatter.
In his own write-up, Loeb said he was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, the FBI, and the intelligence community to assemble the UAP Science Advisory Council in support of President Trump’s transparency directive.
He listed experts in data analysis, AI tools, physics, instrumentation, psychology, biology, oceanography, anomaly identification, anthropology, numerical analysis, communications, and more, making the council broader than a narrow astronomy panel.
Loeb also emphasized the importance of including skeptical voices so the process does not collapse into groupthink, a crucial guardrail for a subject that attracts both serious questions and wild speculation.
His council includes names from different lanes of science and analysis, including people focused on instruments, anomaly identification, quantitative psychology, molecular biology, and the study of anomalies, all aimed at separating explainable cases from genuinely unresolved ones.
That range matters because UAP reports can involve sensors, eyewitnesses, physical objects, biological interpretation, and human perception at the same time.
Loeb’s pitch is not to chase a preferred answer.
It is to build a process that can separate bad data, explainable objects, and truly unresolved cases.
That is a healthy sign for a topic where certainty often arrives long before evidence.
If the government is going to deal with UFOs seriously, the answer cannot be blind belief or blind dismissal.
It has to be evidence.
Loeb also framed the issue as a national-security problem.
If some UAP turn out to be unknown adversarial technology, then America’s defenses against espionage around strategic assets may already have been compromised.
That is the serious version of the UFO conversation, and it is the one this new board appears built to answer.
Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet is among the experts connected to the science council, and he weighed in publicly after questions about his involvement.
Many have asked about my thoughts on joining the new UAP Science Advisory Council. @GarryPNolan sums it up perfectly… https://t.co/Hl9UeKUMp0
— Tim Gallaudet (@GallaudetTim) June 20, 2026
This is the key point: President Trump is not asking Americans to blindly accept a conclusion.
He is forcing the process into the open, pushing the government to release files, and putting scientists in position to test the data.
For decades, the UFO issue lived in the fog.
Now, under President Trump, the fog may finally have to answer to evidence.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
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