Peter Whish-Wilson

Peter Whish-Wilson is an Australian Senator from Tasmania, representing the Greens party. Born in 1968 in Singapore to British parents, he became a dual Australian-British citizen and served in the Royal Australian Navy as a clearance diving officer before entering politics in 2012. In UAP/UFO research, he has actively questioned the Australian Department of Defence on unidentified aerial phenomena, including the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence's 2021 Preliminary Assessment report, which the department had not formally reviewed. During 2023 Senate estimates, he interrogated Air Marshal Robert Chipman on surveillance of anomalous objects amid US and Canadian shoot-downs of unidentified phenomena, emphasizing safety and security implications without endorsing extraterrestrial origins. He inquired about the status of the Unusual Aerial Sightings Policy, cancelled in 2003, and protocols for Defence personnel reporting UAP, noting the Air Force ceased investigations in 1996 due to lack of compelling reasons. No notable publications or personal UAP research are documented; his role centers on parliamentary oversight of government responses to UAP reports.