India, July 8 -- Indian astrophysicist Dr. Devesh Nandal, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been appointed to the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Science Advisory Council, an expert body constituted by Harvard professor Avi Loeb to provide scientific analysis of unexplained aerial and anomalous observations.

The council was assembled at the request of stakeholders within the US Executive Branch, including the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the wider US intelligence community. According to Loeb, the body will advise a higher-level UAP ...