The Galileo Project was revealed a month after the Pentagon published a report on unidentified aerial phenomena. It stated that their nature was unknown.A prominent Harvard astronomer led an international team of scientists that announced Monday a new initiative to search for evidence of extraterrestrial technology.The Galileo Project is a project that envisions the creation of a network of medium-sized telescopes and cameras, as well as computers, to study unidentified flying objects. It has been funded so far with $1.75million from private donors.Recent research has shown that there are many Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Professor Avi Loeb said to reporters at a press conference, "We cannot ignore the possibility of technological civilizations predated ours."He stated that any extraterrestrial technology discovery would have a huge impact on science and technology as well as on the world's view.Researchers from Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge are part of the project.The announcement was made a month after the Pentagon published a report on unidentified aerial phenomena that stated their nature was unknown.Loeb stated that the "what we see in our skies is not something politicians or military personnel should interpret" and that the science community would be able to determine the results.Avi Loeb stirred controversy by suggesting that an interstellar object, which briefly visited our system in 2017, could have been an alien probe sailing along solar winds.The Galileo Project is not only interested in studying UFOs but also wants to study objects visiting our solar system from interstellar distance. It also seeks out alien satellites that may be probing Earth.Loeb refers such research to a new branch in astronomy he names "space archaeology", intended to complement the field of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which mainly probes for radio signals from aliens.These efforts will require collaborations between existing and future astronomical survey, including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Chile) that is set to go online in 2023. This is a highly anticipated scientific event and eagerly awaited.The 59 year-old Israeli-American was a pioneer in many papers and worked with Stephen Hawking. However, he caused controversy by suggesting that an interstellar object briefly visiting our system in 2017 could have been an extraterrestrial probe sailing on solar wind.His arguments were presented in scientific papers and in "Extraterrestrial. The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth." This book placed him in conflict with many others in the astronomy community.Professor Loeb is the author of hundreds of pioneering papers, and he collaborated with Stephen Hawking.Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, was punished for providing key evidence that the Earth is not at the center. The new project has been named accordingly.Frank Laukien, the project's cofounder, was a visiting scholar in Harvard's chemical biology and chemistry departments. He declared himself to be the "resident skeptical."He said, however, that rather than rejecting these ideas outright it was important to "agnostically capture and interpret the data according the scientific method".Continue reading Harvard Astronomer claims that an alien vessel visited us.2021 AFP
