U.S. government establishes UAP Governance Board

Avi Loeb published further details on the UAP Science Advisory Council on 16 June 2026. He wrote that he was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community to assemble the council in support of UAP transparency.

Loeb's description frames the Science Advisory Council as a scientific body meant to advise the U.S. government on how to resolve the nature of UAPs. He says the data shared with the council will be unclassified, and that the council brings together expertise in anomaly identification, data analysis, AI tools, data management, psychology, oceanography, statistics, instrumentation, physics, materials science, anthropology, and skeptical inquiry. Matthew Szydagis is specifically listed for instrumentation and data collection.

The council is described as reporting to a higher-level UAP Governance Board. According to Loeb, that board is intended to provide guidance, recommendations, and interagency coordination across military, law-enforcement, intelligence, and civilian agencies; support AARO's UAP investigation and collection procedures; and assist with timely coordination of UAP-related declassification under Executive Order 13526.

Timeline relevance: this remains a governance and advisory development, not evidence for any particular UAP origin. Its importance lies in how U.S. agencies are organizing scientific advice, data standards, interagency authority, and public declassification around UAP work.

Loeb's follow-up adds operational detail: the Science Advisory Council is intended to use unclassified data and advise a higher-level interagency UAP Governance Board. This makes the event relevant as a U.S. government coordination and declassification mechanism, while not changing the evidentiary status of any individual UAP case.