Fabio De Masi

Fabio De Masi (born March 7, 1980) is a German-Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2024, representing the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). As of December 2025, he serves as a federal co-chair of the BSW. De Masi represents a new institutional approach to UFO/UAP disclosure, one rooted in European governance and aviation safety rather than the U.S.-centric military whistleblower narratives dominating disclosure efforts since 2017.

Political Background

Born in Gross-Gerau, Germany, to an Italian trade unionist father and German language teacher mother, De Masi spent his childhood between Darmstadt and the Naples region. He holds dual German-Italian citizenship. He earned a BA from the University of Hamburg, an MA from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and a second MA from Berlin School of Economics and Law. Before his MEP tenure, De Masi served in the German Bundestag (2017–2021) and held an earlier MEP position (2014–2017). He was a founding member of the German Left Party before joining the BSW in January 2024, signaling a leftist political orientation toward transparency and institutional accountability.

UAP Advocacy in the EU (2024–2026)

Since late 2024, De Masi has emerged as the European Parliament's most vocal advocate for standardized, transparent reporting of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in civil aviation. In April 2025, he initiated a sustained parliamentary campaign, submitting written questions to the EU Commission demanding that it review and update existing EU aviation reporting regulations to include a dedicated, standardized reporting category for UAP incidents. His argument was pragmatic and grounded in flight safety: existing aircraft incident classifications (housed in ECCAIRS2, the EU's harmonized aviation-safety database) did not adequately capture UAP encounters, creating gaps in risk assessment and data integrity.

De Masi's core assertion—articulated repeatedly in 2025 and 2026—was that the lack of transparency regarding airspace incursions presented an unacceptable dilemma for EU authorities: either European airspace is demonstrably vulnerable to intrusions of unknown origin (a major flight safety and security risk), or the EU is withholding information from the public about the nature of these phenomena. He framed this as an accountability issue, not a conspiracy claim, emphasizing that "neither the EU Commission nor the Council claims to possess specific evidence on the origin of these airspace incursions," which he called "quite astonishing given surveillance of airspace and critical infrastructure."

Engagement with Civil Society

On April 30, 2025, De Masi hosted a two-hour meeting in Brussels with representatives of the UAP Coalition Netherlands, demonstrating engagement with grassroots transparency organizations. His outreach signaled a willingness to bridge institutional and civil-society perspectives on UAP disclosure—a model less common in the U.S. context, where whistleblower-driven congressional testimony has dominated the narrative.

EU Commission Response and Stalemate (2025–2026)

In response to De Masi's pressure, the EU Commission confirmed in July 2025 that UAP-related occurrences could theoretically be recorded in ECCAIRS2. However, in March 2026, the Commission revealed through the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) that while it was "aware of recent international developments concerning UAP reporting," it nevertheless concluded that "the risk situation remained unchanged" and that "no additional action was warranted." This represented a institutional rebuff to De Masi's transparency push, leaving a stark divide between advocates seeking a formal UAP reporting category and EU authorities content with ad-hoc, informal documentation.

Significance

De Masi represents an understudied dimension of the disclosure movement: institutional, left-wing, non-U.S. engagement with UAP as a matter of democratic accountability and scientific integrity rather than national security or exobiological threat. His work highlights how UFO/UAP transparency is beginning to fragment beyond the Anglo-American whistleblower framework into regional, institutional, and explicitly political contexts.