Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Recently, Professor Avi Loeb was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, and the FBI with assembling and leading a new UAP Science Advisory Council — comprising astrophysicists, AI experts, and psychologists — to advise the intelligence community on unidentified anomalous phenomena. It was announced the same week the government released its third batch of declassified UAP files. Now he joins us live to talk about what that actually means — and what it doesn't.
This is not a "the aliens are here" stream. It's the harder conversation. I study the cosmic microwave background, and when we find an anomaly, we exhaust every instrument artifact and foreground before anyone whispers "new physics." I want to know why UAP science should run on a different evidentiary standard — and Loeb is exactly the right person to push on it, because he's already attributing much of the released footage to cosmic rays, balloons, and possibly Chinese drones, while holding the door open for the small fraction that stays unexplained.
WHAT WE GET INTO:
- The council, its mandate, and the question nobody's asking: does "advisory" mean anyone has to listen?
- The orbs — Chinese surveillance drones, classified US tech, or something else — and the prior you'd need before you say "non-human"
- Whether "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" gets applied selectively
- AI in the Galileo Project's detection pipeline, and the false-positive problem: what's the training comparison class for "non-human technology"?
- The critique that a council built to study the object ignores where the data actually comes from — human witnesses
Live audience Q&A and a lightning round in the back half. Bring your skepticism. Note you must be a channel member to ask questions:youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join
GUEST:
Professor Avi Loeb — Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard, former chair of the Astronomy department, head of the Galileo Project, author of "Extraterrestrial" and "Interstellar."
Avi on X: https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
Avi's Medium: avi-loeb.medium.com
Galileo Project: galileoproject.org
HOST:
Brian Keating — experimental cosmologist, UC San Diego.
Brian on X: https://x.com/briankeating
Brian's Medium: drbriankeating.medium.com
Loeb's essay "Keeping Our Eyes on the Orbs, Not the Audience": avi-loeb.medium.com
📬 Every Monday I send one short email on the biggest question in science that week — no hype, just signal: briankeating.com/yt?utm_source=youtube_main&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=newsletter_uap_loeb&utm_content=OcYtO3OmyP4
🔭 What kind of cosmic thinker are you? Take the quiz: big-bang.kit.com/cosmic?utm_source=youtube_main&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=cosmic_quiz_uap&utm_content=OcYtO3OmyP4
CHAPTERS:
00:00 — "Chinese drones, or the biggest discovery in history?"
00:10 — Avi Loeb, live
00:40 — The White House just put him in charge of UAPs
10:00 — Legitimacy, or a gilded cage?
13:00 — The orbs: Chinese drones or something else?
24:00 — The prior: what's your base rate for "non-human"?
28:00 — The CMB standard: how a cosmologist kills an anomaly
33:00 — AI, SETI, and the false-positive problem
44:00 — Two cosmologists, one Nobel, one council
47:00 — Lightning round
50:00 — The Impossible Question
REFERENCES
Disclosure Day Official Site: disclosuredaymovie.com
Grusch Testimony businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/variety-of-aliens-are-interacting-with-humans-ex-us-intelligence-officer-makes-shocking-claim-months-after-becoming-whistle-blower-80874-08-12-2023
AARO Orb Imagery (.mil): https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/
Planck CMB Power Spectrum: https://sci.esa.int/web/planck/-/51555-planck-power-spectrum-of-temperature-fluctuations-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background
Loeb June 6 Medium Essay: avi-loeb.medium.com/on-disclosure-day-keep-your-inspiration-from-the-stars-and-your-common-sense-down-to-earth-4f7ddf55eed4
Luna Official Portrait: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Paulina_Luna.jpg
June 9 Grusch Presser: youtube.com/watch?v=RN-Purf4UXE
ESO 'Oumuamua Render: eso.org/public/images/eso1737e
Galileo Project Harvard: https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/
Extraterrestrial (book): harpercollins.com/products/extraterrestrial-avi-loeb
Interstellar (book): harpercollins.com/products/interstellar-avi-loeb
#uap #AviLoeb #UFO #Astrophysics #GalileoProject #SETI #IntoTheImpossible
Recently, Professor Avi Loeb was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, and the FBI with assembling and leading a new UAP Science Advisory Council — comprising astrophysicists, AI experts, and psychologists — to advise the intelligence community on unidentified anomalous phenomena. It was announced the same week the government released its third batch of declassified UAP files. Now he joins us live to talk about what that actually means — and what it doesn't.
This is not a "the aliens are here" stream. It's the harder conversation. I study the cosmic microwave background, and when we find an anomaly, we exhaust every instrument artifact and foreground before anyone whispers "new physics." I want to know why UAP science should run on a different evidentiary standard — and Loeb is exactly the right person to push on it, because he's already attributing much of the released footage to cosmic rays, balloons, and possibly Chinese drones, while holding the door open for the small fraction that stays unexplained.
WHAT WE GET INTO:
- The council, its mandate, and the question nobody's asking: does "advisory" mean anyone has to listen?
- The orbs — Chinese surveillance drones, classified US tech, or something else — and the prior you'd need before you say "non-human"
- Whether "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" gets applied selectively
- AI in the Galileo Project's detection pipeline, and the false-positive problem: what's the training comparison class for "non-human technology"?
- The critique that a council built to study the object ignores where the data actually comes from — human witnesses
Live audience Q&A and a lightning round in the back half. Bring your skepticism. Note you must be a channel member to ask questions:youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join
GUEST:
Professor Avi Loeb — Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard, former chair of the Astronomy department, head of the Galileo Project, author of "Extraterrestrial" and "Interstellar."
Avi on X: https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
Avi's Medium: avi-loeb.medium.com
Galileo Project: galileoproject.org
HOST:
Brian Keating — experimental cosmologist, UC San Diego.
Brian on X: https://x.com/briankeating
Brian's Medium: drbriankeating.medium.com
Loeb's essay "Keeping Our Eyes on the Orbs, Not the Audience": avi-loeb.medium.com
📬 Every Monday I send one short email on the biggest question in science that week — no hype, just signal: briankeating.com/yt?utm_source=youtube_main&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=newsletter_uap_loeb&utm_content=OcYtO3OmyP4
🔭 What kind of cosmic thinker are you? Take the quiz: big-bang.kit.com/cosmic?utm_source=youtube_main&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=cosmic_quiz_uap&utm_content=OcYtO3OmyP4
CHAPTERS:
00:00 — "Chinese drones, or the biggest discovery in history?"
00:10 — Avi Loeb, live
00:40 — The White House just put him in charge of UAPs
10:00 — Legitimacy, or a gilded cage?
13:00 — The orbs: Chinese drones or something else?
24:00 — The prior: what's your base rate for "non-human"?
28:00 — The CMB standard: how a cosmologist kills an anomaly
33:00 — AI, SETI, and the false-positive problem
44:00 — Two cosmologists, one Nobel, one council
47:00 — Lightning round
50:00 — The Impossible Question
REFERENCES
Disclosure Day Official Site: disclosuredaymovie.com
Grusch Testimony businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/variety-of-aliens-are-interacting-with-humans-ex-us-intelligence-officer-makes-shocking-claim-months-after-becoming-whistle-blower-80874-08-12-2023
AARO Orb Imagery (.mil): https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/
Planck CMB Power Spectrum: https://sci.esa.int/web/planck/-/51555-planck-power-spectrum-of-temperature-fluctuations-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background
Loeb June 6 Medium Essay: avi-loeb.medium.com/on-disclosure-day-keep-your-inspiration-from-the-stars-and-your-common-sense-down-to-earth-4f7ddf55eed4
Luna Official Portrait: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Paulina_Luna.jpg
June 9 Grusch Presser: youtube.com/watch?v=RN-Purf4UXE
ESO 'Oumuamua Render: eso.org/public/images/eso1737e
Galileo Project Harvard: https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/
Extraterrestrial (book): harpercollins.com/products/extraterrestrial-avi-loeb
Interstellar (book): harpercollins.com/products/interstellar-avi-loeb
#uap #AviLoeb #UFO #Astrophysics #GalileoProject #SETI #IntoTheImpossible
