Person · Registry ID 072
Ravi Kumar Kopparapu
Research scientist, NASA Goddard; UAP Science Advisory Council member
1 position on the chart2 evidence records
Positions on the chart (1)
- NASA Research scientist, Goddard Documented
Registry record
- Past roles
- Planetary scientist; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Credentials
- Ph.D. physics (Louisiana State University, 2006); exoplanet climate and atmosphere modeling
- UAP involvement
- Scientific UAP assessment; technosignatures; advisory council
- Principal disclosures
- Argues for rigorous data collection and scientific evaluation of UAP; research on planetary habitability and technosignatures
- Evidence contributed
- NASA scientific research and public scientific commentary
- Knowledge type
- Scientific investigator, not a firsthand UAP witness
- Corroboration
- NASA professional biography and Sol Foundation roster corroborate affiliation
- Assessment
- Scientific credentials established; neither advisory role nor technosignature research verifies extraordinary UAP claims
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-29
Evidence (2)
- NASA Goddard professional profile establishes Kopparapu scientific background CorroboratedSecondhand
- Named UAP Science Advisory Council member CorroboratedSecondhand