Gadi Schwartz

Gadi Schwartz is an American broadcast journalist and NBC News correspondent who emerged as a mainstream voice on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) transparency in 2025–2026, bringing network news credibility to disclosure initiatives historically treated as fringe by establishment media.

Early Life and Education

Schwartz was born on July 18, 1983, in Guatemala City and immigrated to the United States at age seven, settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His father, Sergio Schwartz, worked as a journalist for Univision's Albuquerque bureau; his mother, Karen Mings, taught in the Albuquerque Public Schools. He graduated from Cibola High School and attended New Mexico State University, earning a degree in government and journalism.

Regional Broadcast Career

Schwartz began his career at KOB-TV, the NBC-affiliated network television station in Albuquerque, where he spent nearly a decade (roughly 2006–2016) as a weekend anchor and investigative reporter. During his tenure in regional television, he established credentials as a serious journalist, earning a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for Feature Reporting in 2012 and recognition as "Best Investigative Reporter" and "Best Reporter" from the New Mexico Broadcasters Association. He covered major events including the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics.

National Network Career and UAP Coverage

In 2016, Schwartz joined NBC News as a network correspondent, a position that has included roles on NBC Nightly News, Today, and as host of Stay Tuned Now on NBC News Now and Snapchat's Discover platform. He has served as substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News.

Beginning in 2025, Schwartz began reporting substantively on UAP disclosure efforts. Unlike earlier network coverage of UFOs—typically framed as novelty or conspiracy fodder—Schwartz's reporting treated UAP transparency as a legitimate national security and transparency issue. He reported on Pentagon releases of classified UAP-related files and videos, providing analytical context rather than spectacle.

Most significantly, on June 25, 2026, Schwartz moderated a national security panel at the Disclosure Forum held in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. This forum, convened by the Disclosure Foundation, brought together sitting U.S. senators, members of Congress, military officers, intelligence officials, and subject-matter experts to discuss UAP transparency, government accountability, and evidence-based investigation. Panelists included retired Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet (former NOAA deputy administrator and Navy officer) and Christopher Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense and longtime disclosure advocate.

In coverage from the forum, Schwartz conducted interviews with journalist Leslie Kean, Luis Elizondo (former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), and Mellon regarding declassified UAP records, the history of government secrecy surrounding UAP, and barriers to public disclosure. Schwartz posed critical questions about why more military and intelligence witnesses do not step forward with tangible evidence, framing the problem as institutional stigma rather than lack of incidents.

Significance

Schwartz represents a quiet but significant shift: the normalization of UAP discourse within mainstream broadcast journalism. During the UFO disclosure era post-2017, network news largely relegated UFO/UAP stories to entertainment or "odd news" segments. Schwartz's coverage of the Disclosure Forum, his interviews with credible whistleblowers and officials, and his reporting on government file releases treated the topic with the institutional gravitas previously reserved for defense, intelligence, and foreign policy reporting.

His bilingual fluency (Spanish-English) and background in investigative journalism gave him standing to ask sharp follow-ups on bureaucratic accountability and evidence standards. The fact that an NBC correspondent moderated a national security panel in the U.S. Senate on UAP transparency—and that this was newsworthy rather than extraordinary—indicates a genuine shift in how mainstream institutions frame the UAP question.

Personal Life

Schwartz is married to Kimi Tobin, an anchor and reporter at NBC4 Los Angeles. The couple have one daughter, Kira Setsuko, born June 15, 2021. He is a native Spanish speaker and has publicly disclosed that he has ADHD.