Loeb Tells Newsmax UFO Releases Will Come in Waves, First Wave Will Be Video

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb appeared on Newsmax's 'Saturday Agenda' programme with host Rob Astorino on Saturday 2 May 2026 and predicted the Trump administration's promised UAP file disclosure would proceed in several waves, with the first wave consisting of video files. Loeb said the Galileo Project team was prepared to analyse any footage posted to a public release site and to publish preliminary scientific assessments alongside the original material. He repeated his Rank 4 stance on 3I/ATLAS but used the appearance to press the broader argument that even one technological object identified out of a million reviewed cases would qualify as the largest discovery in human history. Loeb confirmed he has had no personal exposure to classified government UAP holdings and has no inside knowledge of which files the Pentagon and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office plan to clear for release. The interview anchored Loeb's May 2026 Medium essay 'The Government Should Not Hide Evidence for Alien Technology from the Public', published the same week, and sits in a now well-documented pattern of Loeb-as-public-scientific-conscience appearances that began with his 20 April Newsmax interview and continued through the 29 April Area 51 earthquake commentary on NewsNation.