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Theoretical Physicist Avi Loeb speaks during the New Space Exploration Initiative
A Harvard astronomer named Avi Loeb announced the Galileo Project on Monday, in which he and an international team of scientists will search for evidence of technology built by extraterrestrial civilizations.
The Galileo Project has received $1.75 million in funding through private donations, according to Phys.org , but is hoping to increase its funding tenfold, Loeb said. The project will involve the creation and coordination of a global network of medium-sized telescopes, cameras and computers. The equipment will be used to examine unidentified flying objects. The project will also involve researchers from Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Caltech and the University of Stockholm.
“We can no longer ignore the possibility that technological civilizations predated us,” Loeb said to reporters at a news conference. “The impact of any discovery of extraterrestrial technology on science, our technology, and on our entire world view, would be enormous,” said Loeb in a statement.
A Harvard astronomer named Avi Loeb announced the Galileo Project on Monday, in which he and an international team of scientists will search for evidence of technology built by extraterrestrial civilizations.
The Galileo Project has received $1.75 million in funding through private donations, according to Phys.org , but is hoping to increase its funding tenfold, Loeb said. The project will involve the creation and coordination of a global network of medium-sized telescopes, cameras and computers. The equipment will be used to examine unidentified flying objects. The project will also involve researchers from Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Caltech and the University of Stockholm.
“We can no longer ignore the possibility that technological civilizations predated us,” Loeb said to reporters at a news conference. “The impact of any discovery of extraterrestrial technology on science, our technology, and on our entire world view, would be enormous,” said Loeb in a statement.
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The Galileo Project was announced about a month following the Pentagon report about unidentified aerial phenomena, which indicated the source of the phenomena was unclear.
“What we see in our sky is not something that politicians or military personnel should interpret, because they were not trained as scientists, it’s for the science community to figure out,” Loeb said.
Loeb is a Harvard professor who has published almost 700 research articles and four books. Loeb has collaborated with Stephen Hawking and was the subject of controversy in 2017 for suggesting that an object could have been an alien probe sailing on solar winds, reported Phys.org .
The Galileo Project will also investigate objects that visit our solar system coming from interstellar space, also searching for alien satellites that could potentially be probing Earth.
The project is named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei.
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