A new Executive Order of the United States President designates that NASA is "hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work."
A new Executive Order of the United States President designates that NASA is
>*"hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work."*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20250828201211/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/further-exclusions-from-the-federal-labor-management-relations-program/](https://web.archive.org/web/20250828201211/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/further-exclusions-from-the-federal-labor-management-relations-program/)
NASA was created by Congressional legislation in 1958 which stated *"Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all humankind."* The law said NASA's objectives were, among other things,
>*"The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.... the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere... Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this chapter and in the peaceful application of the results thereof."*
[*https://web.archive.org/web/20240327125646/https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/public\_law\_111-314-title\_51\_national\_and\_commercial\_space\_programs\_dec.\_18\_2010.pdf#page=5*](https://web.archive.org/web/20240327125646/https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/public_law_111-314-title_51_national_and_commercial_space_programs_dec._18_2010.pdf#page=5)
The 1958 legislation also stated *"activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems, military operations, or the defense of the United States (including the research and development necessary to make effective provision for the defense of the United States) shall be the responsibility of, and shall be directed by, the Department of Defense"*
Some related articles about recent changes at NASA -
* [https://nasawatch.com/trumpspace/nasa-is-now-primarily-an-intelligence-national-security-agency/](https://nasawatch.com/trumpspace/nasa-is-now-primarily-an-intelligence-national-security-agency/)
* [https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250813180236/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/mark-kelly-nasa-trump.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20250813180236/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/mark-kelly-nasa-trump.html)
* [https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/nasa-science-chiefs-letter-press-release](https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/nasa-science-chiefs-letter-press-release)
* [https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-illegal-nasa-reportedly-ordered-to-destroy-important-oco-satellite-80280](https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-illegal-nasa-reportedly-ordered-to-destroy-important-oco-satellite-80280)
* NASA 60th: How It All Began - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV6QeZFaVSQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV6QeZFaVSQ)
Why is this relevant to r/UFOs? A search of the sub shows on average NASA is referenced here at least daily. Science related to UAP research is centred on observing the Earth and outer space from the Earth and from space-based platforms. NASA has for decades been a leader in developing resources to view and study the Earth, as well as what lies beyond Earth, and NASA astronauts have died in pursuit of those scientific goals. Much of the work recently released by [many UAP researchers](https://arxiv.org/html/2502.06794v2) has relied on NASA's study of the atmosphere and space. Everything UAP-related at the US DoD and multiple National Security agencies in the US is already close to impossible to access - as u/BlackVault can [attest. ](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2768160/why-does-the-government-keep-obstructing-ufo-transparency-efforts/) If everything NASA does is now *"**intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work"* is it possible that anything UAP-related that NASA might have could become even more difficult to access than it already is?
Also related, discussion of changes in the United States from a recent podcast of Patterns Tell Stories - [https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HpPrUHZkydqs02Z0Z0oHW](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HpPrUHZkydqs02Z0Z0oHW)
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