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Can we find UFOs from above?
The Hill ^ | Avi Loeb, former chair of Harvard Astronomy Dept

Posted on 01/25/2022 4:07:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux

We are used to looking up when finding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP, previously known as UFOs) of the type reported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on June 25, 2021. Six months after the ODNI report, President Biden signed into law — with bipartisan support in Congress — the establishment of a new UAP office. The office, to operate by June 2022, will start a coordinated effort of reporting and responding to UAP and significantly improve data-sharing between government agencies on UAP sightings.

But it is also possible to find UAP by looking down at them from satellites that image the Earth. For example, Planet Labs uses its fleet of miniature satellites to image the entire Earth once a day with a spatial resolution of a dozen feet per pixel.

The Galileo Project that I am leading, aims to unravel the nature of UAP. Aside from building its first telescope system on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory in the coming months, the project plans to use Planet Labs’ data in searching for UAP from above. Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms can distinguish extraterrestrial equipment from familiar objects like a meteor, an airplane or an atmospheric phenomenon. Since there are no birds, airplanes or lightnings above the Earth’s atmosphere, any object with an elevation larger than 50 kilometers would appear unusual and merit further analysis.

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Once an extraterrestrial object is identified, the challenge shifts to figuring out its purpose. Knowing the intent of visitors to our home is of upmost importance in guiding us how to engage with them. An encounter with an extraterrestrial visitor could be easily misinterpreted, as in the Trojan horse story of Greek mythology, especially if the guest’s AI system is far more advanced than our natural intelligence.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: astronomy; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; science; uap; uaps; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 01/25/2022 4:07:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

This is only my opinion but no one or nothing is coming here to visit without making their (or it’s) presence known. I have no doubt that the Galaxy and all galaxies are teeming with life, some of it intelligent and even technologically advanced but the distances involved just make travel ala Star Trek just too unlikely.

Again, just my opinion.


2 posted on 01/25/2022 4:43:06 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: RoosterRedux

If a UFO is identified, does it become an FO?
And if it lands, does it become just an O?


3 posted on 01/25/2022 4:45:10 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeoted the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: muir_redwoods

The distances are vast, but physics is not settled and the speed of light may not be the barrier.


4 posted on 01/25/2022 4:57:34 AM PST by CTyank
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To: CTyank

So, to quote a smart dead guy, “where are they,?”


5 posted on 01/25/2022 5:04:26 AM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Roccus
If a UFO is identified, does it become an FO? And if it lands, does it become just an O?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Holy Cow!

I never thought of it that way. The aliens could disguise their space ships as other airborn objects!


6 posted on 01/25/2022 5:05:36 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_qhttps://uintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

If it lands in someone’s back yard, it becomes an O s^%$.

If it lands on the White House lawn, it becomes a right wing terrorist extremist insurrectionist!

;-)


7 posted on 01/25/2022 5:08:39 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yes... In fact I do Satellite Archaeology as a hobby and have found and documented quite a few that were captured by imaging satellites as they passed over an area. South America especially has a lot of these captures that can be seen with Google Earth.


8 posted on 01/25/2022 5:16:19 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Candor7

Gotta admit, my questions were not original.

They were first posed during the rambling Deep Thoughts of Zack the Weed Guy’s girlfriend, Mary Jane.


9 posted on 01/25/2022 5:26:09 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeoted the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: muir_redwoods

What makes you think they haven’t made their presence known?


10 posted on 01/25/2022 5:37:17 AM PST by StolarStorm
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To: cgbg
As you say, it becomes Nancy Pelosi's flying "O"


11 posted on 01/25/2022 6:06:48 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_qhttps://uintessentia_1.html))
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To: muir_redwoods
I would think that even if they could travel the requisite speed, they would then find themselves having to dodge physical matter, which might result in lethal accelerations.

I guess they could “mosey”.

12 posted on 01/25/2022 6:10:18 AM PST by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: StolarStorm

Millions of people claim to have seen and spoken to aliens.

“Science” says these are “just anecdotes with no proof” and millions of people are liars or kooks or delusional.

“Science” has been wrong before, and it is a solid bet they can be wrong again.

https://www.amazon.com/Humanoid-Encounters-AD-1899-Others-amongst/dp/1542722055


13 posted on 01/25/2022 6:17:52 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: muir_redwoods

the distances involved just make travel ala Star Trek just too unlikely.

Star trek does not use a propulsion system, except for slow speed maneuvers. It “folds” space such that both the initial ship position and the destination position move close - how fast the happens is the “warp” speed.

Them there are wormholes seen in Deep Space that make travel from here to there instantaneous.

The there are the 200 field equations by James Clarke Maxwell that postulate instant movement form any one place to an other, free energy and so on. He was read and admired by Einstein and Tesla (who tried to make devices based on Maxwell’s equations, but alas original copies were rare to nonexistent even then, so he might not have had all the information needed.) Footnote: without Maxwell, we would know nothing of the electromagnetic spectrum, Einstein would have remained an obscure postal worker, Tesla an unknown engineer.


14 posted on 01/25/2022 6:23:11 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: muir_redwoods

It was once thought that traveling to the moon was impossible. Or traveling from one continent to another in just a few hours was impossible. Now they are not impossible.

I have shared it here before. But these entities have the technology to enter a portal and instantly exit from a destination portal in another location. If you take a map of the UFO sighting “hot spots” and lay it over a map of Earth’s “Ley Lines” there is a direct coloration with the hot spots and Ley Line intersections. I do not think this is by coincidence. I think these Ley Line intersections are where the portals are located. Another connection is that all the ancient cities and civilizations also happen to be located at these same Ley Line intersections.


15 posted on 01/25/2022 6:24:00 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: PIF

Absolutely, and not just space, but time.


16 posted on 01/25/2022 6:25:59 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: muir_redwoods

“This is only my opinion but no one or nothing is coming here to visit without making their (or it’s) presence known.”

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Agree. Why would super advanced beings come here only to hide from technologically primitive inhabitants? Its a long way to travel and not engage in some meaningful way with the “natives”.


17 posted on 01/25/2022 6:47:04 AM PST by Starboard
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To: RoosterRedux

Why on Earth - ahem - would they make it easier to find themselves to benefit us peons?


18 posted on 01/25/2022 6:52:13 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: muir_redwoods

Your right the UAP at best is a money funnel for issues unknown kind of like a back door to the bank.


19 posted on 01/25/2022 7:26:02 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Vaduz

The Galileo Project is privately funded and neither wants nor gets money from the government.


20 posted on 01/25/2022 7:37:40 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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