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Galileo Project

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Galileo Project

The Galileo Project is a scientific research initiative focused on the systematic search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts and unidentified aerial phenomena using rigorous scientific methodology. It is related to but distinct from seti, which focuses on electromagnetic signals rather than physical artifacts.

The project was co-founded in July 2021 by Harvard astrophysicist avi-loeb and Dr. frank-laukien.

Capabilities (March 2026)

Per src-galileo-project-uap-capability-2026-03:

  • Three operational observatories: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nevada; a fourth is planned in Indiana.
  • Multi-band coverage: infrared, visible, radio, and audio.
  • ML outlier detection runs on millions of object recordings.
  • Multi-station triangulation (uap-triangulation) achieves sub-10% distance precision via ~10-km baselines with synchronized timestamps, enabling 3D velocity and acceleration measurement and direct comparison against human-tech performance envelopes.
  • Five new postdocs joined the research team in spring 2026.

Loeb frames these capabilities as a scientific alternative to government uap-disclosure — civilian instruments can independently verify visitation regardless of classified-file releases.

Methodology

Verify, don’t dismiss. Loeb cites a 2026 case (src-loeb-wh-uap-videos-skeptic-2026-04) in which a postdoc’s triangulation analysis of an apparent zig-zag object 5.6 km away was traced to a software-malfunction artifact during periods of missing camera data — the kind of careful follow-through the project wants to make standard.

Engagements

The Galileo Project participated in aaro’s August 2025 UAP narrative-data workshop organized by aui (src-aaro-uap-data-collection-whitepaper-2026-03), alongside nuforc, scu, and uapx. Loeb has offered to share Galileo’s hardware/software lessons with the Pentagon and to sit on any review board analyzing classified UAP satellite imagery.

Panspermia line of work (2026)

Per src-loeb-panspermia-impact-survival-2026-03, Loeb’s research group has produced peer-reviewed papers on panspermia feasibility across trappist-1, the Milky Way, and the Galactic center. The March 2026 essay extends this into directed-panspermia — proposing a microbe-nutrient-power capsule attached to an interstellar object like 3i-atlas as a deliberate exoplanet-seeding mechanism. Loeb pairs this with the speculative “Trojan Horse” framing that some interstellar objects could carry technological payloads.

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