An international team of researchers led by an astronomer from the American University of Harvard announced Monday a new project to search for evidence of extraterrestrial technologies.
Entitled “Project Galileo”, this initiative provides for the establishment of a worldwide network of medium-sized telescopes, cameras, cameras and computers to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
She has already received $ 1.75 million in private funding.
"We can no longer ignore the possibility that technological civilizations existed before our own," Prof. Avi Loeb said during a press conference.
"The impact that any discovery of extraterrestrial technology could have on science, our technology and our conception of the world as a whole, would be enormous," he added in a statement.
"For the scientific community to understand"
The announcement comes a month after the Pentagon released a UFO report. This document concluded that dozens of aerial phenomena observed by military pilots could not be explained. “It is not the politicians or the military who must interpret what we see in the sky (…). It's up to the scientific community to understand, ”said Professor Loeb, who hopes to increase funding for his project tenfold. In addition to UFOs, the Galileo Project aims to study interstellar objects passing through our solar system, and search for possible extraterrestrial satellites that would observe Earth.
59-year-old Israeli-American researcher Avi Loeb has published hundreds of groundbreaking reports and collaborated with the late Stephen Hawking.
He is also the author of a controversial scientific article which suggested that an interstellar object that briefly passed through our system in 2017 could have been a solar-powered alien probe.
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