The statement below is from Stanford Medical School Professor Dr. Garry Nolan, Admiral (Ret.) and former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency head Tim Gallaudet, and recent Harvard visiting anthropologist Dr. Peter Skafish, who leads the Sol Foundation, a think tank dedicated to scientific and policy research on UAP.
In June, the three were appointed to the newly-formed government UAP Science Advisory Council, which advises the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on UAP issues and is supported by the FBI and White House.
“In a year of already unprecedented federal government transparency about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), The Trump Administration has released its fourth tranche of UAP files through the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). This release contains historical footage of potentially unknown objects from NASA missions as well as CIA records and videos taken with military and intelligence sensors.
Several federal agencies, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of War, have serious efforts to collect and analyze UAP data. Among these are The UAP Scientific Advisory Council, which is currently requesting data through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and evaluating scientific hypotheses for some UAP events, extending work that we have undertaken at the Sol Foundation since 2023.
At the same time, we remain highly confident that several members of Congress and government whistleblowers are correct in claiming that the intelligence community has maintained a longstanding interest in UAP objects, some of which are potentially technologies and vehicles of nonhuman origin. Americans and the rest of the world have a right to know that this is true, and we are calling on Congress to pass the UAP Disclosure Act, legislation that would trigger a thorough disclosure process.”
In recent years, since The New York Times broke the news that the Pentagon has been investigating UAP on a much larger scale than previously known, and following under-oath testimony by military and intelligence officials, bipartisan scrutiny of the government’s handling of UAP has significantly increased – along with interest among the American public.
Political leaders in both parties have called for greater transparency about the subject on national security grounds, including Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Mike Rounds, and top White House and intelligence officials.
This release underscores the importance of forthrightness about the subject of UAP after decades of the opposite. While these releases are a welcome step, many more are needed. The American people have a right to know what their government does in this area. The Sol Foundation, both in public and in its private capacity advising the ODNI through its scientific council, will continue advocating for full openness.