A group of techies have turned to crowdsourcing in order to fund their idea of a UFO-hunting mini-satellite. After an unsuccessful run on the crowdsourcing website Indiegogo, their second campaign, via Kickstarter, has proven successful, and they have received the funding needed to build and launch their mini-UFO hunting device.
The campaign -- "CubeSat for Disclosure - Low-Earth Orbit Satellite" -- utilizes off-the-shelf technology to develop a relatively cheap observation platform in space.
Through Kickstarter, the group sought to raise $10,000, and says they already had $16,000 in previous funding. As of the writing of this story, their Kickstarter campaign has raised $10,770.
Even though they have the funding needed to get their enterprise off the ground, project organizer Dave Shock says they can use all the funding they can get.
Good, but they're going to need many more of these -- a constellation. But one is a certainly good start start, IF the PTB don't take it out, which is very likely. To read more, click here.