NASA Will Finally Search Its Archives for UFOs

NASA may already hold proof of UFOs in its archives. The problem is that no one has run the data.

According to the Disclosure Foundation, a bipartisan nonprofit, a newly formed executive committee will review NASA’s archives for UAP. The committee includes Mike Gold, a former NASA associate administrator, and Dr. Reggie Brothers, a former Homeland Security science and technology official, both of whom served on NASA’s earlier UAP Independent Study Team. It also brings in astronomer Beatriz Villarroel, theoretical physicist Maaneli Derakhshani, aerospace engineer Travis Taylor, and clinical psychologist Stephen Bruehl, working with executive director Jordan Flowers. 

The plan, in reference to the Foundation’s announcement, is to run NASA’s records through artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, flag anything anomalous, and share the findings with the public and with government agencies. The first in-person meeting is set for July.

The point of a review like this came up in a recent UAP Files podcast conversation with Professor Michael Bohlander, a Durham University law professor and former international judge. According to Bohlander, evidence is simply data, and proof is what a person makes of that data, which means a standard cannot be pinned on the evidence itself but on what counts as proof. NASA’s archives are already full of images, sensor logs, and mission records. What has been missing is anyone willing to sort through them, which stands out given that NASA’s own independent UAP study group was created in 2022 and briefed the media on its limited findings in 2023. The Foundation has also pointed to its own polling, which found NASA is the government body the public trusts most on the subject.

Simultaneously, the Disclosure Foundation is hosting a full day of panels in the Kennedy Caucus Room inside the Russell Senate Office Building June 25th. The room includes Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a longtime advocate for the AARO office, along with Representatives Eric Burlison and Tim Burchett, Christopher Mellon, and Avi Loeb, who chairs the UAP Science Advisory Council. According to Loeb, the council works with AARO stated that every piece of data it reviews will be unclassified.

There is also a short update on the F-15 pilot who reported a jellyfish-shaped drone formation over Iran. According to analysts cited in recent reporting, earlier assessments point to an Iranian infrared air defense missile or a shoulder-fired weapon as the more likely cause of the shootdown, rather than a drone swarm, and there is still no public evidence the formation downed the jet. As a reference point, this is not the first jellyfish-shaped object reported over a war zone. In 2024, journalist Jeremy Corbell released thermal infrared footage of a jellyfish-shaped object filmed over a United States joint operations base in Iraq, in an event dated October 2018. The Pentagon would not confirm or deny the material. The two events are not the same, one a reported conventional drone swarm and the other an unexplained object, but the shape keeps appearing in the same kind of setting.

Sources

Disclosure Foundation. (2026, June 24). Disclosure Foundation to review NASA archives for unidentified anomalous phenomena. National Law Review. https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/disclosure-foundation-review-nasa-archives-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena

Jeremy Corbell. (n.d.). NHI extracting our souls — Whitley Strieber on 70 years of contact [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNznVZ5ciY

UAP Files Podcast. (2026, June 24). A legal mind looks at UFO evidence — And it gets interesting! [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDtu653h4cg