Interstellar Affairs Are Not the Pentagon’s Day Job

Today, the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) at the Pentagon <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3575511/dod-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-office-launches-new-reporting-tool/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">announced</a> a new reporting mechanism for current and former military members, federal employees and contractors to come forward with direct knowledge of unidentified anomalous phenomena dating back to 1945. This would help AARO fulfil its Congressional mandate. However, anecdotal reports by those who happened to be at the right time and the right place are of limited scientific value because they are not based on well-calibrated and controlled instruments. This makes it difficult to interpret or validate old anecdotal data. A better approach is to use audio and video instruments that monitor the entire sky in many locations at all times and provide well-calibrated data of scientific quality. This is the agenda of the <a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Galileo Project</a>. We already assembled one functioning observatory of this type at Harvard University and its data is now being analyzed with machine learning software.  <a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/interstellar-affairs-are-not-the-pentagons-day-job-fe66521c9142">Read More</a>