Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council
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Hey everyone, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. This one, another Shermer says solo commentary. Today I'm talking about Well a lot about aliens, although I have a few comments about a few other things. uh reiterate what I've been announcing on X and then in our newsletter. For Skeptic, the UAP Science Advisory Council. I'm a member of this team organized by Avi Loeb at Harvard. Um Avi is the longtime leader six years now, five years now next month of the Galileo project, which he headed up at uh he heads up at Harvard in in order to find out what's actually going on with UAPs, that is unidentified
Anomalous phenomenon formerly known as UFOs. So the i idea of the Galileo project is to actually have observatories that we build, so it's not classified government data or anything like that. The skies are not classified, as Avi likes to say, right? So we're gonna record these things and see if we can find anything. We haven't found anything yet. But that's the idea. To move beyond Stories, anecdotes about spooky things in the night sky. Uh for of the UFOs and the UAPs and so on.
Anyway, so Avi was tasked through his contacts in government, all the way up to the top, to organize an actual UAP investigation group specifically to address the UAP or the UFO files that are being released by the government? So that's what we're doing. And there's a team of uh fifteen of us total, uh from all the different sciences. Avi says, quote, Since UAPs are physical objects that interact with humans, the council includes members with expertise in physical sciences as well as psychology. And biology. All members had an intense interest in the scientific study of UAPs for many years. Rather than revisiting decades old cases that lack reliable evidence, the council's mission is focused on gathering better data.
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