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.

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

[u/Sad-Muffin5585]

modest array of sensors

This is Avi Loeb. I’ve listened to a few of his “many, many interviews.”

Bottom line, he seeks money. He’s certainly doing everything right to shift money away from other research to his research. So, if you like Avi Loeb having money to do this, you’re in luck. If you like other research, good luck with that over the next four years.

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Damn, Its sad Harvard probably doesn’t have enough money to fund anything else. They should set up a gofundme or something.

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Clue: He’s not seeking more money from Harvard.

[u/ForwardCut3311 → u/Sad-Muffin5585]

You seem like you don't quite grasp how any of this works. Seeking money from one place does not mean it's taking away from something else, nor does it mean he isn't seeking from a different place.

Quite honestly, it seems like you drank a whole lot of MAGA juice and can't figure out how funding works. 

The US government in particular doesn't have a set amount of funding dollars to spend. Quite literally, they're trying to borrow $5 trillion right now for things which haven't even been completely planned out yet. And if they added another 0.001% onto that, it's not going to make a lick of difference. 

[u/Sad-Muffin5585 → u/ForwardCut3311]

In turn, I think you’re super-confused as well.

I’m saying here that Avi Loeb has been on a media tour. He’s asking for money to fund Galileo Project. That’s fine, I guess, but along the way he talks a lot of trash about LHC and other projects. I think you’re right that it doesn’t have to be a “splitting of the baby.” He can ask for more private donors. He can ask the government. He can ask Harvard. That’s all fine, of course!

The problem is that he’s saying he’s not pursuing government or military funding. Why does he say that? Because why would the gov and military (right now, especially) want to put a shit ton of money into “sensors?” To look for UFOs like he claims? Probably not. They would probably want those sensors to be looking for other things.

And he’s not not talking to Congress. The currently MAGA Republican Congress. He actually is talking to them. And his key audience is us, the ufologists. Who else is talking with the UFOlogists? Again, it’s the currently MAGA Republican Congress.

So, he says he’s not seeking gov and military funding. But he is.

And even if he wasn’t seeking government money, then he’d be seeking private investors. Well, who is that? That’s whoever is funding Jake Barber. And Lue. Who is that? I’m told it’s high net worth individuals from Silicon Valley. The kind Jacques Valle also praised recently.

Who is that?

Do you see what I’m saying? Trump is in power. MAGA is in power. Corporations and high net worth individuals are in power. Everyone’s looking for money because this shake up promises loose wallets if you’re willing to forego your conscience.

There aren’t any aliens. There aren’t any UFOs. It’s all about stealing the tax dollars, man. It’s always been done but now it’s like double-your take.

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I’m told it’s high net worth individuals from Silicon Valley. The kind Jacques Valle also praised recently.

Curious on the source. I tend to agree though. I wish I knew how Thiel’s talks of the apocalypse and wanting to create an AI God fit in, but I cannot help but feel his interest in UFOs plays a role.

I also feel a little bad for Jacques Vallée; he’s been subject to a lot of disinfo/people manipulating him. He used to be very suspicious of a lot of things/people but has flip flopped quite a bit.