Summary
Harvard astrophysicist avi-loeb announces that the galileo-project has reached a major instrumentation milestone: it can now measure distances to airborne objects to better than 10% accuracy via multi-station triangulation across observatories separated by ~10 km, enabling true 3D velocity and acceleration measurements (see uap-triangulation). Loeb argues this lets the Project independently determine whether any object lies outside the performance envelope of human-made craft, providing a scientific alternative to government uap-disclosure. The Project operates three observatories (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nevada) with a fourth planned for Indiana, monitoring the sky in infrared, visible, radio, and audio bands and using machine learning to flag outliers. Loeb situates the work against the limits of seti’s 65-year electromagnetic-only search and the unknown-distance “Achilles Heel” of past congressional UAP videos. He praises donald-trump’s recent disclosure directive and offers to sit on a review board for classified satellite imagery.
Key Claims
- Galileo Project achieves <10% distance precision to airborne objects via 10-km baseline multi-station triangulation with accurate timestamps. (Loeb)
- Three operational observatories (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nevada); a fourth is planned in Indiana. (Loeb)
- Coverage spans infrared, visible, radio, and audio; ML flags outliers from millions of object recordings. (Loeb)
- Five new postdocs joined the Galileo research team in spring 2026. (Loeb)
- The “Achilles Heel” of past UAP videos is unknown camera-to-object distance, which makes apparent speed and acceleration uninterpretable. (Loeb)
- Voyager-class 1970s technology can cross the Milky Way in ~1 billion years, so older alien civilizations had ample time to send artifacts toward our solar system. (Loeb, with Shokhruz Kakharov calculation)
- John Ratcliffe (current CIA director) indicated in 2021 that U.S. government satellite data may capture UAP velocity/acceleration relative to ground. (Loeb’s recollection)
- Galileo Project was co-founded by Loeb and Dr. Frank Laukien in July 2021. (Loeb)
- A SETI committee chaired by Penn State’s Dr. Jason Wright recommended barring discussion of anomalous near-Earth objects at SETI conferences. (Loeb’s claim)
- Loeb offers to participate in a review board analyzing any classified satellite UAP data for President Trump and pledges to share Galileo’s hardware/software lessons with the Pentagon regardless. (Loeb)
Notable Quotes
“We are now capable of measuring distances to objects in the sky to better than 10%, by observing them from different directions with multiple units separated by 10 kilometers from each other.” — Avi Loeb
“We do not need to rely on the official channels of NASA or the U.S. government to tell us whether we are being visited, for the same reason that we did not need the official declaration of the Vatican in 1992 to learn that the Earth moves around the Sun.” — Avi Loeb
“I told the five new postdocs who joined the Galileo research team this spring that they should feel free to wake me up in the middle of the night if they detect a UAP which clearly deviates from the performance envelope of human-made objects.” — Avi Loeb