A few days ago, I celebrated my birthday by giving the colloquium at Harvard’s Institute for Thery and Computation, for which I served as director over the past twenty years. This hour-long lecture, available here, garnered nearly ten thousand views. It overviews the research performed within the Galileo Project that I am leading. The goal of the Galileo Project is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological artifacts to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research.
The Galileo Project currently operates three observatories in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Nevada, with a future observatory planned for Indiana. These observatories monitor the entire sky continuously in the infrared, visible, radio and audio bands, and record data on millions of objects. The data is analyzed by machine learning software, trained to discover outliers with unfamiliar characteristics.
For the first time since I co-founded the Project together with Dr. Frank Laukien in July 2021, the Galileo research team under my leadership has reached a major milestone this month. We are now capable of measuring distances to objects in the sky to better than 10%, by observing them from different directions with multiple units separated by 10 kilometers from each other. This method of triangulation, enabled by accurate time stamps, allows us to measure the three-dimensional velocity and acceleration of objects and determine whether any of them lies outside the performance envelopes of human-made technological objects, such as drones, balloons, airplanes, helicopters or satellites.
The goal of the Galileo research team is to figure out whether there are extraterrestrial technological visitors in our backyard. As of now, the Galileo observatories can discover Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Any such discovery, substantiated by scientific-quality data, will be shared through the standard scientific protocol with the public. Instead of waiting for disclosure of classified information on UAP or UFOs, the Galileo research team is simply observing the sky.
Then do it.
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