Overview of the Galileo Project

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, Vol. 12, No. 1

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The official peer-reviewed journal paper establishing the Galileo Project's scientific program, published in the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation's 2023 Galileo Project special issue. Co-authored by Avi Loeb (Harvard) and Frank Laukien (Bruker Corporation founder and funder). Distinct from `loeb-2022-galileo-project` in the catalog (which is Loeb's 2021 book 'Extraterrestrial') — this is the first formal peer-reviewed scientific publication of the project's goals, methodology, and instrumentation strategy. Companion to `watters-loeb-2023-multimodal`, which describes the technical observatory design.

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We describe the Galileo Project, a systematic scientific search for physical evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs) in the vicinity of Earth. The project operates three parallel research tracks: a search for interstellar objects that may be technological in origin (motivated by the detection of 'Oumuamua), a search for anomalous objects near Earth that may constitute ETCs or their artifacts, and analysis of existing UAP data from government and civilian sources. We describe the scientific rationale, instrumentation strategy, and data analysis pipeline for the project. The Galileo Project represents the first large-scale, systematic scientific effort to search for physical evidence of non-terrestrial technology using the scientific method.

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Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Frank H. Laukien. (2023). Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. Vol. 12. No. 1. DOI: 10.1142/S2251171723400032

https://doi.org/10.1142/S2251171723400032

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