Israeli Harvard professor launches search for ‘extraterrestrial civilizations’ - The Times of Israel

“Given the recently discovered abundance of Earth-Sun systems, the Galileo Project is dedicated to the proposition that humans can no longer ignore the possible existence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” the group said.

“Science should not dogmatically reject potential extraterrestrial explanations because of social stigma or cultural preferences, factors which are not conducive to the scientific method of unbiased, empirical inquiry,” the Galileo Project said.

“The existing data on UAP and Oumuamua are sufficiently anomalous to motivate the collection of additional data on UAP or Oumuamua-like objects and to test whether such objects may be astro-archeological artifacts or active technological equipment produced by one or more putative, existing or extinct extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” the Galileo Project said on its website.

The Galileo Project aims to identify unidentified aerial phenomena and “Oumuamua-like interstellar objects” through scientific analysis of data collected with cutting-edge instruments.

The researchers will pursue three main avenues to achieve their goals: they seek to capture high-resolution images of unidentified aerial phenomena with a network of telescopes and other detection equipment; search for interstellar objects with existing and future astronomical surveys; and look for small extraterrestrial satellites that may be observing our planet.

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