The UFO Phenomenon

Avi Loeb's Galileo Project is using AI to help detect alien technology

By T.K. Randall
May 21, 2025 ·  2 comments

Avi Loeb. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Cmichel67 Launched back in 2021, the non-profit Galileo Project aims to detect extraterrestrial technosignatures (signs of alien technology) as well as to record and analyze evidence of UFOs (UAPs).

Much of the observation and data analysis conducted to date has come courtesy of the Harvard College Observatory, which was installed on the roof of the university itself in 2022.

Its findings are processed through artificial intelligence to help differentiate between genuine anomalies and various mundane objects, such as birds, balloons, drones and satellites.

There are also plans to expand the project across other sites in the future.In many ways, the project has been a response to the fact that traditional searches for alien life have focused almost exclusively on listening out for extraterrestrial signals from space.

"[SETI (for example) was] predicated on the assumption that extraterrestrials communicate via radio waves, a technology we have used for just over a century and which advanced extraterrestrials may have long ago left behind," said Loeb, who maintains that seeking evidence of actual alien technology is a much more viable approach.

He also believes that examples of such technology might be found within our own solar system.

While the project is ultimately still in its early days, it is hoped that - over time - it will grow into something that might just have a chance of finding the first confirmed evidence of alien life.

Source: La Voce di New York | Comments (2)

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