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July 24th, 2021
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Look for a major reveal regarding the search for technological signatures from extraterrestrial civilizations.
To be showcased Monday, the multi-prong Galileo Project also may foster the discovery of — or better scientific explanations for potential new natural atmospheric phenomena, or in some instances terrestrial technology explanations for many of the presently inexplicable Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs).
One aspect of searching for UAP is with a network of mid-sized, high-resolution telescopes and detector arrays with suitable cameras and computer systems, distributed in select locations. The data will be open to the public and the scientific analysis will be transparent.
GIMBAL/“Tic Tac”
Credit: DOD/U.S. Navy/Inside Outer Space screengrab
The Galileo Project follows three major avenues of research:
1) Obtain high-resolution, multi-detector UAP images, discover their nature;
2) Search for and carry out in-depth research on “Oumuamua-like” interstellar objects; and
3) Search for potential satellites from extraterrestrial technological civilizations that may be exploring Earth.
International research team
The Galileo Project: “Daring to Look Through New Telescopes” is headed by Avi Loeb of the Harvard Astronomy Department.
Credit; Harvard University
The Galileo Project: “Daring to Look Through New Telescopes” is headed by Avi Loeb of the Harvard Astronomy Department. Loeb is leading an 11-person international research team that includes university astronomers, computer and chemistry experts and research scholars. The effort also includes scientific and philanthropic advisory boards.
According to a fact sheet, the goal of the Galileo Project is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of extraterrestrial technological civilizations “from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research.”
As a ground-based project, the new initiative is complementary to traditional SETI, “in that it searches for physical objects, and not electromagnetic signals, associated with extraterrestrial technological equipment.”
This very deep combined image shows the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua at the center of the picture. It is surrounded by the trails of faint stars that are smeared as the telescopes tracked the moving asteroid. This image was created by combining multiple images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope as well as the Gemini South Telescope. The object is marked with a blue circle and appears to be a point source, with no surrounding dust.
Sufficiently anomalous
The existing data on UAP and that interstellar interloper “Oumuamua” are sufficiently anomalous to motivate the collection of additional data on UAP or Oumuamua-like objects “and to test whether such objects may be astro-archeological artifacts or active technological equipment produced by one or more putative, existing or extinct extraterrestrial technological civilizations.
Loeb told Inside Outer Space that the project is based on donations that he had received into my research funds at Harvard with a current total of 1.755 million dollars. “To get all the most ambitious science goals done, we need ten times that level of funding.”
Press conference details
The press conference on Monday, July 26, 2021 at 12 noon EDT, will announce the Galileo Project and its goals.
Below are the links where livestream will be available.
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtDWoZ5lLINstvJvALwKYXA
Facebook event link:
https://business.facebook.com/events/3076366245977223/
For more information on the Galileo Project for the systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts, go to:
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