Michael Gold
Chief Growth Officer, Redwire Space; former NASA official; member of NASA's UAP Independent Study Team
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- Background checked
- 29 Sep 2026
Our assessment
A genuine, well-documented space-law and policy official with a substantial NASA career and a real, officially confirmed seat on NASA's UAP Independent Study Team. He is not a scientist, sensor analyst, or someone with hands-on technical UAP-detection expertise; his corpus contribution, that the core problem is inadequate, unbiased data collection rather than confirmed non-human origin, reflects the team's actual institutional conclusion and his role as a policy/process advocate, not an original technical finding of his own.
Credentials
Verified credentials
- J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School (1998)
- 12 years as Corporate Counsel and Director of Washington Operations/Business Growth, Bigelow Aerospace; recipient of a NASA Group Achievement Award for deployment of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) on the ISS
- attorney, Patton Boggs and McGuireWoods law firms (prior to space-industry career)
- Vice President for Civil Space, Maxar Technologies; General Counsel, Maxar's Radiant Solutions business unit
- NASA: Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships; also served as Acting Associate Administrator, Office of International and Interagency Relations, and Senior Advisor to the NASA Administrator for International and Legal Affairs; led development/implementation of the Artemis Accords; received NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal (2020) for that work
- appointed by NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate to NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Independent Study Team, 2022-2023; the team received a NASA Silver Group Achievement Award
- joined Redwire (space infrastructure company) in April 2021 as EVP of Civil Space Business Development and External Affairs; later Chief Growth Officer; currently President of Redwire's space business segment
- testified before the U.S. House of Representatives (House Oversight Committee) on UAP/government transparency, November 13, 2024
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Expertise
Within their expertise
- space law and policy
- international space diplomacy/regulatory affairs
- government space-program administration
Topics outside their expertise
- sensor/optical analysis of specific UAP footage
- aerospace engineering/propulsion physics
- whether any specific sighting is non-human in origin
Claims by video
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The Langley Air Force Base drone incident lasted over two weeks, and most of the panel (Gold indicates he learned via a colleague, Chris Mellon, who had written about prior incursions) first learned of the full scope from a Wall Street Journal article rather than internal DoD channels.
A colleague of mine who I referenced previously, Chris Mellon, he wrote an extensive article about this, that there were other incursions of drones over Langley before this as well as many military installations over the last five decades.
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From 2020 to 2022 a Pentagon UAP Task Force, led by a person named (per the transcript's ASR rendering) 'J. Stratton,' pursued the first comprehensive whole-of-government approach to UAP, including pathways to declassification.
From 2020 to 2022 there was a UAP task force in the DOD... led by J Stratton, who had the first comprehensive whole government approach to UAP.