Oumuamua, UAP and The Galileo Project: In Search of Technological Interstellar Objects

Came across this video of the most recent meeting for the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton.

The guest speaker was Dr. Avi Loeb, giving a presentation on his views on extraterrestrial life as well as some discussion of the recently announced “Galileo Project” searching for technological interstellar objects.

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There was a discussion of “Oumuamua” of course, but what was interesting to note was that it wasn't the first object of interstellar origin detected, it's actually the third. The second one impacted the ocean and there is a expedition planned to recover fragments early next year.

The other interesting thing is the Galileo Project are building a detection system for UAPs using both optical and RF methods.

It is a good effort, but I have some doubts about the resolution of the cameras being sufficient for detection at practical ranges.

At over an hour and 40 minutes, it is a long video, so here's a brief summary with some screen caps of the bits I thought were most interesting.

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