FOLLOW THE DATA. THEN FOLLOW THE RESUMÉS.

 

Something potentially more consequential than another fuzzy UFO video is happening quietly around NASA.

Former NASA official Mike Gold says the current federal UFO/UAP releases represent “evolutionary disclosure.” More interestingly, Gold is helping lead a Disclosure Foundation project that intends to search NASA’s enormous public archives for anomalies using artificial intelligence, machine learning, citizen scientists and voluntary corporate contributions. The Foundation announced the effort June 24; Space.com put Gold and the project back into circulation on August 17.

That deserves attention.

NASA itself says it does not actively search for UAP, but possesses extensive Earth-observation data available to the public. NASA also says there is presently no evidence in its data establishing UAP as alien technology and that the shortage of high-quality observations prevents scientific conclusions.

So far, perfectly reasonable.

Then FMPU began reading résumés.

Gold served on NASA’s own UAP Independent Study Team. Today he is President of Redwire’s Space division. Before NASA and Redwire, he worked at Maxar Technologies and spent years at Bigelow Aerospace—a name requiring no introduction to anyone who has followed the privatization of UFO investigation.

Redwire, meanwhile, is not selling commemorative flying-saucer ashtrays. It is an aerospace and defense company doing substantial government business; NASA awarded it an additional $4 million contract in March 2026 for microgravity pharmaceutical research.

Important: there is no evidence that Redwire is financing this UAP archive project, profiting from it, or doing anything improper. The Disclosure Foundation says the archive effort will use voluntary corporate contributions, but does not identify Redwire as one of them.

That distinction matters.

So does the network.

Government → NASA → private aerospace → UAP foundation → AI analysis → government again.

Believers can reasonably argue that this is exactly what serious UFO research desperately needed: competent scientists and aerospace insiders examining mountains of neglected data.

Skeptics can reasonably ask who selects the anomalies, trains the algorithms, finances the analysis—and whether machines hunting specifically for weirdness inevitably become industrial-strength weirdness detectors.

FMPU OPINION

The old UFO investigator stared at photographs with a magnifying glass.

The new one feeds NASA into an algorithm.

That could be scientific progress.

It could also manufacture the largest Magic Pop machine in UFO history: billions of pixels entering one end, anomalies emerging from the other, and an eager culture supplying mythology before breakfast.

FMPU takes neither side.

Follow the data.

But this time, follow the people, the corporations and the money standing beside it.