Comments on the Seventh Pentagon UAP File Release

(Image credit: The Hill, NewsNation)Below is a transcript of my in-person television interview with Blake Burman in The Hill on NewsNation on October 23, 2026. The interview is also available in video format here. In what follows, Blake’s questions are marked with BB and my answers with AL.***BB: Joining us now, Avi Loeb. He is a professor at Harvard University, also the chair of the UAP Science Advisory Council. So nice to see you. Good day to have you here in Washington. Thanks for coming in. Let’s go back to those flying triangles. What’s your theory? What do you think?AL: We don’t know what they are. There are two types of objects that are being spotted by the Pentagon and the intelligence community: orbs and triangles, and they are hovering over strategic assets. We need to know what they are, because if you have a down-to-earth approach, you would say they are coming from adversarial nations. It is not our government that is flying them.We shot down a Chinese spy balloon in 2023. And when I go to the kitchen and find an ant, I get worried because there must be many more ants under the sink. For the same reason, we need to figure out these objects. We won’t be able to do it based on the data that we’re given in these UAP tranches. It’s not good enough. My hope is to partner with the Pentagon and put better sensors at the locations where these objects are found.BB: How are government officials talking and thinking about all of this?AL: Well, there are definitely objects that both the Pentagon and the intelligence community cannot identify. And there is even a more fundamental question, because there are some reports from people who used to work in government that perhaps there are even alien spacecraft that are being held by corporations like Lockheed Martin.I haven’t seen any evidence for that, and the officials I speak with have not seen any evidence for that. But if it exists, my plea to whoever owns them is, please take me to the nearest alien spacecraft, be