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Bill Nelson

2021-06-03 – 2025-01-2014th NASA Administrator

14th NASA Administrator (2021-2025); former U.S. Senator and Congressman from Florida. In June 2021 directed NASA scientists to look more closely at UAP reports, and later said publicly he did not think humanity was "alone" in the universe. In September 2023 presided over the release of NASA's UAP Independent Study Team final report and announced the agency's first (unnamed) director of UAP research, while publicly dismissing David Grusch's crash-retrieval claims by asking "Where's the evidence?" Left NASA on Jan. 20, 2025 at the end of the Biden administration; no confirmed new position since.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap", "crash-retriev". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency 2023-07-26

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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
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Caveat Claim: Nelson led NASA as its 14th Administrator, 2021-2025. The hearing confirms he held the office. The ordinal and the date range are modifiers sourced elsewhere.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21
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appointed him to NASA's 2022 UAP Independent Study Team

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publicly dismissed his crash-retrieval claims, asking "where's the evidence?"

Public commentary and testimony on the Grusch disclosures (2023)
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NOT A DEATH. Verified 2 September 2026 against Wikipedia, "Bill Nelson", fetched that day: "Nelson left NASA ... at the end of Biden's presidency" on "January 20, 2025", matching the end recorded here to the day. The article gives his birth as "September 29, 1942 (age 83)" and carries no death notice: HE IS LIVING. SEPARATELY, AND NOT FIXED HERE: the same article gives his swearing-in as 3 May 2021, while this node's start date is 2021-06-03. The start is a different question from the end and this apply does not touch it. RECORDED GRADE: fetched secondary source, not a primary document read by eye. It is recorded so a reader can check it, and it is the same grade as the fourteen death dates already on this map.