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Profile · Australia
Grant Lavac
Researcher Podcaster FOI Researcher 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia
Bio
Grant Lavac is a Melbourne-based independent UAP researcher and host of The Unexplained Rundown, an Australian podcast and YouTube channel covering UAP, unexplained phenomena, and disclosure activity. Lavac self-describes on the show as "just an ordinary guy who believes in extraordinary things, with a healthy degree of scepticism and an open mind."
His investigative work centres on Australian government engagement with UAP. Since the early 2020s Lavac has filed multiple Freedom of Information requests with the Australian Department of Defence, the documents from which produced the FOI chain that exposed the Five Eyes Inaugural UAP Caucus Working Group of late 2021. That documentary record contradicted statements made twice in Senate Estimates by Air Marshal Robert Chipman, then Chief of Air Force, that Australia had not been briefed by the United States on UAPs.
Lavac has supported Senator Peter Whish-Wilson's parliamentary questioning by providing suggested wording for Senate Estimates committee hearings. He is the author of e-petition EN5115, formally registered with the Australian House of Representatives, requesting a formal review of the now-cancelled Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy.
On UAP
The recurring editorial line on The Unexplained Rundown is what Lavac terms "the great divide" between Australian government engagement with UAP and the equivalent posture of the United States. Lavac's recent episodes have covered the FOI chain establishing Australian attendance at the Pentagon UAP Task Force briefing, the Westall 1966 case 60th anniversary, the Tully Nest UFO of 1966, the JAL 1628 case, and the PURSUE document releases of 2026.
Lavac speaks at the annual Australian UFO Festival in Cardwell, Queensland, and visited the Tully Nest site during the 2025 festival.
Notable Public Statements
"The Chief of Air Force leads all discussions on UAP in Australia, so if there's one person that needs to know what is happening on this topic in an Australian context and our discussions with allies, it's him."
"The petition is asking for a formal review of the cancelled Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy. We have no formal reporting mechanism in Australia today, and no acknowledgment from Defence of what they actually know."
"The great divide between Australia and the United States on the UAP issue."
Where to Find Them
In the Archive
Editorial note. This profile is built from publicly available material: Grant Lavac's own podcast and YouTube channel, his on-record statements to Australian media, the parliamentary record where his petition is registered, and the FOI documents he has obtained from the Department of Defence. The NHI Archive does not take a position on the content of Lavac's reporting; we document the public-record work and link to the sources. If anything on this page needs correcting or expanding, please get in touch.
