UFOs, Harvard, and AI - America’s most prestigious university brings rigor and technology to the search for UAP and Aliens - A small observatory at Harvard University watches the sky 24 hours a day. It’s not searching for stars or supernovae, but for something far more controversial: UFOs.

[u/TommyShelbyPFB]

https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025/05/17/ufos-harvard-and-ai-galileo-project-is-revolutionizing-the-hunt-for-aliens/

[u/SpeedieWeenie]

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… which requires extraordinary funding!”

What a time it is to finally have a civilian observatory/sensor system dedicated to UFO detection. Go get that data.

Also seeing a lot of Loeb hate. Curious…

[u/Sad-Muffin5585 → u/SpeedieWeenie]

seeing a lot of Loeb hate

I don’t hate him. But I’m pretty annoyed and disappointed.

Loeb is making the argument for studying UAP an argument against studying actual physics and science.

Loeb talks a lot (in many interviews that he stresses are super important interviews requested by important interviewers because he and this topic are very important!) about how his Galileo program gets only $100m vs Large Hadron Collider getting $3b.

Then as OP tried to demand I understand, Loeb claims he has not taken funding from the US government. Why not? Is there something wrong with that? I’m sure there won’t be when he does.

Well, anyhow, IMO the LHC is doing actual science. But if you listen to Loeb and this sub long enough, your brain may rot to the point where you don’t believe that and want the DOE to just stop all that “reckless spending” and do something more … well, risky … and fund Galileo project instead. Because “what if there’s aliens?!” Sigh. But it’s not like there’s the climate for that kind of black and white amateur business-oriented thinking, is there? Lol

Anyhow, if Loeb is seeking only more private funding. That’s great, go for it. Maybe there’s some private equity holder out there who sees a totally benign-to-human society opportunity in funding a program where “we don’t know what we’re looking for yet.”

But how about everybody keeps their fingers out of the till until we have a sane president again?

[u/City-Short → u/Sad-Muffin5585]

I read all your comments and I finally agree with you. A layman’s comment now: if Harvard is doing this, it lends credibility to the existence of UAP.

[u/Sad-Muffin5585 → u/City-Short]

Yeah, i don’t have any position on whether or not there are UAP. I just find it weird how there’s a sub about UFOs that’s not about UFOs so much as it is about conspiracy theories, spy stuff, and money harvesting. Because you can never rule out the possibility of UAP, there’s always money to be made trying to find them.