The UAP Science Advisory Council has expanded its roster with two researchers whose work spans planetary habitability, atmospheric modeling, meteorology and astrobiology. Space journalist Leonard David reported the additions on July 11 alongside the launch of the council's new website.
Ravi Kopparapu is a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center researcher whose published work includes exoplanet habitability and atmospheric characterization. Jacob Haqq Misra, affiliated with Blue Marble Space, works across meteorology and astrobiology. Their addition broadens the council beyond familiar UAP advocates into fields that can test environmental and observational explanations.
Council chair Avi Loeb has said the group will emphasize evidence, instrumentation, data analysis and collection standards. According to David's report, members come from disciplines including data science, biology, oceanography, anthropology and psychology, reflecting an effort to treat UAP as a measurement problem rather than a predetermined conclusion.
Loeb has described the council as connected to the White House, AARO, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and other intelligence-community participants. Those institutional relationships are reported claims from the council's chair; the July 11 source did not publish a charter, meeting record, government directive or dataset that would allow independent assessment of its authority or work.
The two appointments are a concrete staffing update, not evidence about the origin of any reported object. The council's scientific value will depend on whether it releases methods, calibrated observations, negative results and reproducible analyses. Its new website creates a public reference point, but transparency will be measured by the material published there.