Hi r/UFOs, I’m Nick Gold, the Founder of Declassify UAP, an American organization (and registered Federal lobbyist) dedicated to fighting for government UAP transparency and declassification. Ask Me Anything about the org, my lifelong interest in UAP, my involvement with UAP science, etc.!

Hi, r/UFOs!

My name is Nick Gold, and I’m the Founder of Declassify UAP. I’m very happy to be able to do an AMA here today, and I’ll be sticking around for a few hours to answer your questions. I’m also a regular participant here, and you can hit me up any time.

Declassify UAP is an American organization based in Baltimore that is dedicated to fighting for government UAP transparency and declassification. It’s a registered Federal lobbyist, and I am the only “member” (owner) of the LLC that is its corporate entity. You can read more about it’s formulation and the thinking behind it here: https://declassifyuap.org/about/what-is-duap/

The organization is being run very transparently, which seemed like an appropriate approach to embrace. You can read more about my pledge as to how I’ll be running the organization here: https://declassifyuap.org/about/pledge/

In addition to lobbying our elected officials on UAP transparency/declassification, I wanted Declassify UAP to make it easy for people to begin to engage with their elected officials, as direct constituents, on this issue. I feel it’s very important for UAP transparency to be normalized as a political issue we engage around like all others.

DeclassifyUAP.org/action allows you to send a message to your representatives in about 30 seconds. It will hopefully be just one avenue for your outreach to your representatives, including House Rep, two Senators, and the President and Vice President of the US. We also provide calling tools, and the ability to send totally custom messages to your elected officials. No matter how you engage, please engage!

Right now, we need to be pushing our reps. to support The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, which either will or will not end up (intact) in the final “reconciled” FY24 NDAA, which is being negotiated now.

I’ve been pretty interested in UFOs for pretty much my entire life. As an elementary schooler in the 80s and teen/early 20-something in the 90s, I was of course influenced by popular culture’s coverage of the topic. Flight of the Navigator was definitely a biggie, along with E.T., Star Wars and Trek, X-Files, and all the rest. These led me to get into studying the topic more seriously, which I’ve been doing since my teens.

Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to be a member of The Galileo Project for about a year (I’m honored to be a listed coauthor on their lead paper that was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation).

I’m currently a member of The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), which does great original work on the topic of UAP. You can dive in here (make sure to check out the Library): https://www.explorescu.org

Most of my career has been in the IT side of the media industry, and I’ve had the opportunities to work with some pretty incredible, and wildly diverse, organizations over my career. I’ve also done a little work in brain-computer interfaces (way back in the day), and more recently, DNA-based data storage and computing technology.

You can read more about my background here: https://declassifyuap.org/about/whos-behind-duap/

As I said, I’ve been deeply into this topic (and some related areas) for over a third of a century. Feel free to AMA about my take on UAP, Declassify UAP and its efforts, the scientific inquiry into UAP, etc.

Proof pic: https://x.com/DeclassifyUAP/status/1708148172042694884?s=20

I’ll be joined today by Mike Rezl, who a lot of you will know as u/LetsTalkUFOs, one of the r/UFOs moderators.

I met Mike a few years ago through this sub, and given his web design skills and intense interest in the topic at hand, he was a natural choice to bring in as the DeclassifyUAP.org web designer and admin. I’m so thrilled with how the site turned out, and this has been the feedback I’ve received from many other people, including many “UAP World VIPs,” so-to-speak.

I’m not sure where things would be if he hadn’t been available, including his putting the finishing touches on the site from Black Rock City, NV at this year’s Burning Man.

Here’s a bit about him:

Mike Rezl is a freelance web designer and helped create the Declassify UAP website. He has also created websites for ufologists such as Jacques Vallee, Ryan Sprague of Somewhere In the Skies, and the Youtube channel It’s Redacted. Mike has been a moderator of r/UFOs since 2021 as u/LetsTalkUFOs. He is the also the creator of UFOS.WIKI, a collaborative guide to ufology and the community resource for the subreddit.