Government / Military
NASA
2022
U.S. space agency; established a UAP Independent Study Team in 2022 (active through September 2023) to recommend how NASA could contribute data and analysis to understanding UAP.
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joint 1994 DoD/NASA lunar probe; returned first indications of polar water ice
Source: Wikipedia; NASA Ames
first director of Marshall Space Flight Center; architect of the Saturn V (Apollo)
Source: NASA biography — nasa.gov/people/wernher-von-braun
launched a review of its archives for UAP anomalies
Source: Disclosure Foundation announcement
NASA Marshall funded her AC-gravity research in the 1990s
Source: Wikipedia: Ning Li (physicist)
several named individuals were NASA staff
Source: Fox News, 2026
chaired NASA's UAP Independent Study Team (2022-2023)
Source: NASA, UAP Independent Study Team report, Sept 14 2023
Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Shuttle & ISS at NASA after the SAPCO
Source: af.mil biographies; post-service company/board listings (archive.org)
Paperclip's rocketry team (von Braun et al.) became the core of NASA's early program
Source: NASA history
director of NASA Ames Research Center (2006-2015)
Source: Wikipedia; NASA Ames
Gemini and Apollo 8 astronaut
Source: NASA astronaut records
Gemini, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 astronaut
Source: NASA astronaut records
served on its 2022 UAP independent study team
Source: NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report, Sep 2023
former Associate Administrator; served on its UAP Independent Study Team
Source: NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report, Sep 2023
NASA's framework for international space exploration cooperation
Source: NASA Artemis Accords
Mercury and Gemini astronaut
Source: NASA astronaut records
NASA's primary crew and cargo launch provider
Source: NASA Commercial Crew / CRS contracts
JPL is one of its field centers
Source: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Administrator
Source: NASA official records
its UAP study team fed into the broader effort
Source: NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report, Sep 2023
led as its 14th Administrator, 2021-2025
Source: NASA official records
his Voyager Golden Record greeting to ET was a NASA mission
Source: NASA Voyager mission; the Golden Record
believed to be a NASA/aerospace payload insider, though unconfirmed and absent from documented program records
Source: online UAP research (contested)