Reconnaissance Office Names Its UAP Director as Washington's Saucer Docket Swells

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Reconnaissance Office, an agency whose work is seldom discussed in public, has appointed a director for its PURSUE effort and addressed the extraterrestrial hypothesis, according to a digest published by The Anomalist and drawn from Sentinel News. The digest credits writer Baptiste Friscourt with covering a memo said to demonstrate the executive branch's genuine interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

The digest's own commentator, signing as WM, takes a drier view. The memo, he suggests, also reinforces the executive branch's interest in controlling information on the subject.

Elsewhere, the digest reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he has been briefed on UAP and found it 'really crazy', according to the linked article. The digest notes the briefing allegedly included talk of orders to destroy and recover such objects. It adds that it remains uncertain whether one briefing, held before Mr. Kennedy joined the current administration, was sanctioned, a question it says adds to concerns of propriety.

Congress, meanwhile, remains engaged. The New York Post, as cited, reports that intelligence community witnesses to a 2025 UFO orb incident could testify before Congress, a prospect raised by Rep. Eric Burlison. Dr. Avi Loeb, who leads the UAP Scientific Advisory Council, is quoted as wanting to know more about the encounter and even to visit the site.

Finally, KLAS News reports that information from the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application Program is expected to be compiled for release. The $22 million program ran from 2007 to 2012 with Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. The digest notes that the Defense Intelligence Agency has apparently only just discovered a bundle of its records.