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Exciting news: the Galileo Project is seeking help from volunteers in labeling objects in the sky!
The Galileo Project’s goal is to conduct a systematic scientific search for evidence regarding extraterrestrial technological artifacts. Our research team aims to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of extraterrestrial technological civilizations from accidental or anecdotal observations to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research. The Galileo Project is complementary to traditional SETI, in that it searches for physical objects near Earth that are associated with extraterrestrial technological equipment, and not for electromagnetic signals from distant stars.
The Galileo Project, headquartered at Harvard University under my leadership, operates three new observatories: one in Massachusetts, another in Pennsylvania and the latest and most advanced in Nevada. In contrast to common astronomical observatories which seek distant sources, the architecture of the Galileo observatories was designed to focus on objects within the Earth’s atmosphere. Our instruments continuously observe the entire sky at each location in the infrared, optical, radio and audio bands. The data stream is being analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) models in search for anomalous outliers among millions of documented objects every year.
We search for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with flight characteristics that deviate from human-made or natural objects. Our goal is to figure out the nature of UAP through detailed observations. Our observatories aim to infer distances of objects through the method of triangulation, by observing them from different directions with multiple units separated by about 10 kilometers from each other.
The classification of sources in the sky into familiar human-made objects like airplanes, drones, helicopters, balloons or satellites, and familiar natural objects like birds or clouds, is challenging because each of these objects appears differently depending on the time of the day, the background sky patterns, and its orientation relative to the Sun or the Moon.
In the process of training our AI models, we are seeking help from volunteers who are interested in labeling objects from our latest images. For that purpose, the Galileo research team established a new website which displays images and asks interested volunteers to classify objects in the sky into known categories.
If you are interested in helping out the Galileo Project in its exciting mission, please click on the link here.
Dr.Avi Loeb
