{"id":84052,"date":"2026-07-01T08:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84052"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:19:15","slug":"controversial-harvard-professor-will-head-white-house-ufo-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/controversial-harvard-professor-will-head-white-house-ufo-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Harvard Professor Will Head White House ‘UFO’ Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the\u00a0White House<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to lead a team of outside scientists to study the\u00a0national security risks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0posed by\u00a0UFOs<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard\u2019s astronomy department until 2020, was recently appointed to helm a new scientific advisory council tasked with investigating the origins of mysterious orbs and other objects reported by military personnel in recent years. It\u2019s part of President Donald Trump\u2019s push to declassify more information about the issue.<\/p>\n

Loeb\u2019s team will report to a new White House panel focused on UFOs, now often referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s like a detective story,\u201d Loeb said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun, as long as you don\u2019t pay too much attention to the critics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From AP: A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the\u00a0White House\u00a0to lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84053,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions\/84053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}