Summary
avi-loeb appeared on Newsmax on June 13, 2026 — one day after PURSUE Release 03 — framing the new tranche as a serious national security matter. He highlighted aaro director jon-kosloski’s June 5 letter describing a two-day October 2023 encounter in which law enforcement officers witnessed orbs splitting into smaller orbs, with 40% of documented phenomena remaining unresolved. Loeb also announced his leadership of a government-tasked uap-science-advisory-council assembled at the direction of the White House, intelligence community, and Pentagon. He maintained his characteristic two-interpretations framing — adversarial human-made technology versus a rare non-human origin — while noting he has “not seen clear evidence for anything that is not human-made.” He used the cosmic-scale argument that billions of Earth-Sun analogs make the possibility of a technological neighbor worth investigating.
Key Claims
- Loeb has been tasked with assembling a UAP Science Advisory Council for the White House, intelligence community, and Pentagon. (Loeb)
- The October 2023 western-U.S. orb encounter — documented in PURSUE Release 03 via a Kosloski June 5 letter — had 40% of its phenomena left unresolved by aaro, including an orb that split into smaller orbs. (Loeb / Kosloski)
- PURSUE Release 03 included 53 documents, 10 images, 6 videos, and 3 NASA audio recordings. (Loeb)
- Loeb: UAP may represent “technologies that adversarial nations are employing for espionage on strategic assets,” making it “a very serious matter.” (Loeb)
- Loeb: “There is no doubt in my mind that these are real objects.” (Loeb)
- Loeb: “I have not seen clear evidence for anything that is not human-made,” but does not rule out non-human origin. (Loeb)
- Finding even one object of non-human origin would be “the biggest discovery in the history of science.” (Loeb)
- The PURSUE archive has logged more than 1.7 billion hits since its May 2026 launch. (Pentagon figure)
- War Secretary pete-hegseth has said the Pentagon is moving “in lockstep” with President Trump to expand UAP transparency. (Hegseth)
Notable Quotes
“There is no doubt in my mind that these are real objects.” — Avi Loeb
“At the very least, it’s a matter of national security.” — Avi Loeb
“I do believe that we should be aware: if we have a neighbor, you know, just ignoring that possibility is not a good attitude.” — Avi Loeb