By
Leonard David published January 21, 2022
Interest in UFOs continues to grow, both among scientists and government officials.
In June 2021, the U.S. military and intelligence community issued a report on UAPs. It was followed by congressional urging to establish a formal office to carry out
a "coordinated effort" on collection and analysis related to UAP.
"Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy, and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance over the air. Staying ahead of UAP sightings is critical to keeping our strategic edge and keeping our nation safe," Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said on Dec. 9, 2021, when announcing the inclusion of her UAP amendment in the $768.2 billion
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022
Although the new office within the Pentagon, called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, will not explicitly focus on the
search for alien life, it will be tasked with providing a full spectrum of intelligence, as well as scientific and technical assessments, related to UAP.
One of the new UAP office's responsibilities will be to implement a plan to
"test scientific theories related to UAP characteristics and performances," Gillibrand said in a
statement.
One upcoming initiative, called the
Galileo Project, will search for extraterrestrial equipment near Earth. It has two branches. The first aims to identify the nature of interstellar objects that do not resemble comets or asteroids — like '
Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to visit the
solar system. The second branch targets UAP, similar to those of interest to the U.S. government.
"The Galileo Project's data will be open to the public, and its scientific analysis will be transparent," said
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who is spearheading the project. "The related scientific findings would expand humanity's knowledge, with no attention to borders between nations."
The Galileo research team includes more than 100 scientists who plan to assemble the project's first telescope system on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory in spring 2022.
"The system will record continuous video and audio of the entire sky in the visible, infrared and radio bands, as well as track objects of interest," Loeb said.
"Artificial intelligence algorithms will distinguish birds from drones, airplanes or something else. Once the first system will operate successfully, the Galileo Project will make copies of it and distribute them in many geographical locations."
"The more we continue to whittle away the stigma that has surrounded this subject for so long, the faster we may begin to understand the nuances of this mysterious phenomenon," he said. "Further reducing the stigma will hopefully also mean that more scientists and scholars will continue to enter the conversation without fear of retribution or shame being cast upon their existing research program, which can only help to advance our knowledge farther and faster."
Thanks to the official acknowledgement of the reality of these objects, Masters said, "the conversation can now move on from
'Are these real?' to 'What are they, and from where, or potentially when, are they coming?'"
"These are exciting times, as there are a growing number of groups focused on UAP detection and study," said Kevin Knuth, an
Associate Professor of Physics at the University at Albany and vice president of UAPx, which intends to incorporate a network of distributed sensors that interested parties can host locally to contribute to UAP spotting.
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