Admiral (ret.) Tim Gallaudet has shown some of the most consistent and effective leadership on UAP and disclosure over the last years. Sol’s 2027 Symposium is a rare opportunity to encounter him in person, along with voices like Karl Nell and Hal Puthoff. Participate in history in the making and register now: thesolfoundation.org/buy-tic…

The Sol Foundation’s 2027 Symposium includes a full day of programming from partner organizations, including Americans for Safe Aerospace, the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, uNHIdden, Vanguard Enterprise, and the Visible College. This is an one-of-a-kind gathering for academics, aviators, experiencers, government employees, investors, and technologists engaged with UAP. Participate in history in the making and register now: thesolfoundation.org/2027-so…

Former NASA Associate Administrator Mike Gold, who provided decisive testimony at the fall 2024 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee UAP hearing, will be speaking at Sol’s 2027 Symposium, on March 11-13 in Washington DC. Participate in history in the making and register now: thesolfoundation.org/2027-so…

Eric Davis and Kirk McConnell made potentially historic statements at the 2024 Sol Symposium. Expect equally important discussions at our 2027 symposium on March 11-13, in Washington DC. Participate in history in the making and register now: thesolfoundation.org/2027-so…

Dr. Hal Puthoff made waves at the Sol Foundation’s first symposium with claims about UAP disclosure moves in George W. Bush’s White House. He returns to our 2027 symposium this March 11-13, in Washington DC. Participate in history in the making and register now. thesolfoundation.org/2027-so…

The White House's PURSUE initiative has brought new momentum to UAP disclosure, but major challenges remain. Sol's Peter Skafish and Marik von Rennenkampff discuss the state of the effort, recent records releases, and what must happen next.

British MP Clive Lewis recently shared with the Sol Foundation the UK Ministry of Defense’s answers to his inquiries about UAP, stating that the openness of other Five Eyes governments about the phenomena raises questions about whether the UK government is being transparent and democratically accountable.

In a groundbreaking conversation, British MP Clive Lewis joins Peter Skafish of the Sol Foundation for a discussion of UAP disclosure in the United Kingdom, including questions Lewis raised with the UK defense ministry, the contradictions in Five Eyes governments' public positions, and why further U.S. disclosure could force the UK to reveal what it knows. This is the most substantial, on-the-record discussion of UAP by a sitting British parliamentarian in more than two decades.

In a new episode of The Sol Forum, members of the UAP Science Advisory Council and Sol Foundation co-founders Garry Nolan and Peter Skafish are joined by Council Chair Avi Loeb, and fellow member Dr. Anita Goel to discuss the council’s work with the U.S. government, the data it is seeking, plans for new field research and sensors, and what it will take to scientifically determine the nature of UAP.

In his clip from our upcoming Sol Forum episode, Sol Foundation cofounder and UAP Science Advisory Council member Dr. Garry Nolan (@GarryPNolan) discusses David Grusch’s and Eric Davis’s claims about alleged UAP recoveries, attesting once more to both individuals’ character and credibility.

@robinhanson economist and member of the government’s UAP Science Advisory Council, recently shared with the Sol Foundation his views about what the low observability of UAP may tell us about extraterrestrial intelligence: “If they wanted to remain invisible, they could. If they wanted to make their presence unmistakable, they could do that too." The full discussion with Robin Hanson is out tomorrow.

We applaud the President’s new policy allowing former officials and contractors, for the first time, to bypass NDA restrictions to share confidential UAP information through authorized channels—including, finally, with Congress. Like a wide range of high ranking military and intelligence professionals have said (sometimes under oath), the American people deserve transparency about UAP, and an end to government censorship and stonewalling. Expanding opportunities for responsible disclosure about our national security is an important step toward a more open and informed conversation about UAP. We hope this action encourages greater transparency, reduces unnecessary stigma, and encourages constructive dialogue among government, scientists, journalists, and the public.

Successful disclosure depends on excellent science as much as government transparency. Take research on a 1977 event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, when witnesses to a UAP observed a red mass falling from the sky and then found a pool of molten metal on the ground, still boiling twenty minutes later. Peer-reviewed analysis led by the Sol Foundation’s Dr. Garry Nolan and Dr. Jacques Vallée ruled out five prosaic explanations for what the metal might be, lending substance to the possibility that it was not manufactured by human beings.

Today’s release of the third tranche of UAP records by the Department of War under PURSUE marks another important step in the ongoing declassification process. At the same time, the Sol Foundation hopes that the White House is responsive to calls by @RepEricBurlison, @RepLuna, @timburchett, and @JaredEMoskowitz for thorough disclosure of knowledge of UAP within the DoW and the intelligence community, and that a plan for controlled disclosure can be implemented to ameliorate the social, economic, and geopolitical effects.

The Sol Foundation wants to thank Representatives Eric Burlison (@RepEricBurlison), Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna), @RepTimBurchett, and @JaredEMoskowitz for their show of decisive leadership yesterday, which could be pivotal in bringing about government UAP disclosure. We also wish to recognize our colleague, Air Force veteran David Grusch, for his continued courage and leadership

In case you missed it: Sol Foundation cofounder and anthropologist Dr. Peter Skafish commenting last week on the second Trump Administration UAP records release on News Nation.

NEW: The Sol Foundation's assesses some of the many UAP videos and records from the Trump Administration’s second PURSUE release. Marik von Rennenkampff and Peter Skafish evaluate the data and discuss the optimal next steps in disclosure. (Link to video below.)

Sol cofounder and Stanford professor Garry Nolan weighed in on CBS News this past Friday on the Trump Administration's second UAP records release.

Full episode: piped.video/c2rFSlorsSI

Congresswoman @RepLuna shared with @ProfAviLoeb and Sol’s Peter Skafish her efforts to obtain and review records from MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s Cold War human medical and psychiatric experimentation program. Those records may contain clues about government UAP secrecy, and underscore the need for her broader oversight work. Clip link below

NEW: In a Sol Foundation interview with @RepLuna and Harvard professor @ProfAviLoeb on the UAP records releases from the Trump Administration, Congresswoman Luna shares that CIA Director John Ratcliffe gave her advice on where UAP documents could be found, and it was accurate.

The first round of President Trump and the Department of War’s release of UAP records is consistent with what experts have long known: the US government has long observed UAP, yet exactly what it knows about them is obscure due to missing and withheld information. In this new Sol Briefing, our own Marik von Rennenkampff walks us through what has been revealed, and what still demands explanation. (Link in comments.)

Disclosure will not be easy, given its potential to impact all areas of society, at a global scale. Sol Foundation adviser and international relations legend Alexander Wendt weighed in at one of our conferences on the opportunities and risks of government disclosure of UAP and nonhuman intelligence. His talk, "The Last Humans," is especially pertinent at this historic moment. (Video via link in the comments.)

The President and Department of War’s historic release of UAP records is an enormous step forward toward disclosure, but much more needs to be done to prevent a “catastrophic disclosure” scenario in which the public’s demand for answers overwhelms the government’s capacity to provide them. In this important talk from the Sol Foundation’s 2023 symposium, our close collaborator, Colonel (ret.) Karl Nell, outlines why the “controlled disclosure” campaign that would be established by the UAP Disclosure Act is needed for genuine, effective disclosure. Link in comments

Sol Foundation senior adviser Rear Admiral (ret.) Tim Gallaudet interviewed yesterday on CNN with none other than Jake Tapper, on the Department of War’s release of government UAP records and footage. We salute Tim for providing guidance on the significance for humanity of this historic moment.

The Sol Foundation notes that the Department of War UAP records release contains NASA mission transcripts, including one from the Apollo 17 mission, describing encounters with unexpected visual phenomena. These historical observations may hold renewed relevance as attention turns to transient objects and events in near-Earth space. We're encouraged by the evidentiary support the transcript may provide to the work of our colleague Dr. Beatriz Villarroel (@DrBeaVillarroel), whose research has focused on identifying and characterizing such fleeting astronomical phenomena. Sol is proud to count Dr. Villarroel as an original member of our advisory board and one of the most courageous scientists we know.

The Sol Foundation wishes to recognize Senator Michael Rounds for his past cosponsorship of the UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA), which, he signaled in a recent interview, he would like to see move forward in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation is widely recognized by experts and nongovernmental UAP organizations as establishing the best pathway toward thorough, accurate, and controlled disclosure of federal government knowledge of unidentified anomalous phenomena. Sol wishes to express its renewed commitment to supporting the UAPDA and leading a public conversation about its merits.

Sol is proud to announce another addition to its leadership team and the UAP community: Matt Mason, who will be serving as our new Chief Marketing Officer. Matt is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and author with 20 years of C-level experience at the frontier of consumer tech, AI, and blockchain. He was the first CMO at Kraken, head of marketing at BitTorrent, which grew to 175 million users during his tenure, and Studio Head at a Sony Pictures innovation lab. Named #11 on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business list, Mason started his career as a pirate radio DJ in London, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of RWD, the UK’s largest music magazine, and wrote the non-fiction bestseller The Pirate’s Dilemma (Simon & Schuster/Penguin). His “infographic novel” Hard Times (Penguin) won Best in Show at SXSW and was exhibited at MoMA. Matt is already bringing Sol’s research, policy, and public education work to new audiences, and we anticipate that he'll help increase the kind of public understanding of UAP and disclosure for which Sol is known.

The Sol Foundation is excited to announce the first of several major additions to its executive leadership. Dr. Christian Peters, political scientist and managing director at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science (BIGSSS), at Germany's University of Bremen, has joined Sol as our Associate Director of Research. Christian is an accomplished scholar and has published widely across the social sciences, with his research spanning higher education, populist politics, religion and politics, and unidentified anomalous phenomena. His work focuses on the politics of knowledge, particularly how institutions interpret and govern scientific uncertainty and emerging forms of intelligence. He is best known in the UAP field for his Scientific American article, co-authored with historian Greg Eghigian, "It's Time to Hear from Social Scientists about UFOs," which helped broaden UAP discourse to include perspectives from the social sciences. At the University of Bremen, he manages an interdisciplinary research environment with over 60 doctoral fellows and was recently appointed Academic Director for Education and Career at DIFIS SOFO, a center addressing the impact of key technologies on social policy. At Sol, he will draw on his experience in research management and organizational development (shaped by European funding frameworks including the German Research Council, European Research Council, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie programs) to help ensure quality and high-impact output. We look forward to working with Christian.

The Sol Foundation is pleased to feature Leslie Kean, Jim Semivan, and Kirk McConnell in a conversation with our cofounder and executive director, Peter Skafish, on the current moment of UAP disclosure, and what may be required for it to move forward. Drawing on their decades of experience in investigative journalism, intelligence, and Congress, the discussion concerns why progress has been uneven despite clear momentum, examining factors like the risks faced by whistleblowers, the limits of congressional oversight, and the persistent gap between what government may know and what it will publicly acknowledge. The question is not simply whether disclosure will occur, but what it would actually consist of, and whether existing institutions are capable of managing its consequences. Link to video in comments.

Sol is proud to feature astrobiologist Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra on the latest episode of the Sol Forum. In a conversation with Peter Skafish, Jacob reflects on the relationship between the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the growing body of UAP observations. Rather than treating these domains as separate, he suggests that they may be part of the same underlying problem: how to recognize and interpret forms of intelligence that do not conform to human expectations. Drawing on his work in technosignatures and the philosophy of detection, Jacob asks what it would mean to expand SETI to meet this challenge. Link to video in comments.

The Sol Foundation is excited to share the latest video from its symposium this past fall! In a highly anticipated fireside chat, James Fowler, technologist and president of Compass Tech, and Sol Briefing host Marik von Rennenkampff discuss the technical aspects of tracking UAP with advanced sensors. Fowler and von Rennenkampff also analyze a string of brazen incursions by mysterious objects, frequently dubbed “drones” by the media, over highly sensitive facilities and assets in recent years. Fowler describes his experience tracking unknown objects via his firm’s advanced sensor suite as a government contractor and subsequently with the Skywatcher initiative. Von Rennenkampff then provides a survey of the recent incursions which, in some cases, have been documented on radar and military infrared sensors, resulting in perplexing footage and incidents that defy easy explanation. Link to video of the conversation is in the comments.

In this new edition of the Sol Briefing, host Marik von Rennenkampff discusses the extraordinary comments by presidents Trump and Obama that led to President Trump's pledge to release “government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life" as well as UAP and UFOs. Von Rennenkampff also analyzes eyebrow-raising comments from Hillary Clinton and Sen. Mike Rounds, one of the most perplexing military-filmed UAP videos released to date, and intriguing online bets placed on the timing of a U.S. government announcement of the existence of alien life. He closes with intriguing, historically unprecedented comments from the former acting director of the Pentagon’s UAP analysis office. Access this installment of the Briefing through the link in the comments.

In light of Donald Trump’s announcement yesterday about UAP records declassification, the Sol Foundation presents Eric Davis’s account of a briefing that President Jimmy Carter may have received from the CIA on UAP and nonhuman intelligence. Davis’s account raises questions about what later presidents, including Trump and Obama, may have learned from the intelligence community about UAP. piped.video/nBB3jFKf_eM