One of the world's most renowned extraterrestrial experts is currently developing a historic mission that would potentially give us a hint about life in outer space. The focus of the mission is to recover an interstellar object that fell to our planet.
Avi Loeb and Pacific's Interstellar Meteor
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 12: Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University speaks on stage as Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking host press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City.
The mission, led by Harvard astronomy specialist Avi Loeb, would be a collection of clues that crashed on a coast located in Papua New Guinea almost ten years ago. Part of the examination is to prove that the cosmic object would suffice our knowledge about unknown neighbors of humankind.
In a piece by The Debrief, Avi Loeb explained that our discovery of this new foreign meteor serves as a breakthrough in the field of astronomical research.
Recent studies carried out by Loeb, along with theoretical astrophysics expert Amir Siraj, revolve around a suspected interstellar object that, after many months, was confirmed by the United States government as an actual rock that originated off-world.
Loeb and Siraj's findings were made available in an arXiv preprint, titled "The 2019 Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin"
Loeb said that the main interest in the interstellar meteor is whether it contains clues of extraterrestrial origins. The possibility of this guess is likely to exist, especially if a technological structure from the cosmic neighbors such as what's embedded in the rock could survive the impact, Loeb continued.
CNEOS-2014-01-08 was the name tag selected for the mysterious meteor that was buried somewhere in the Pacific region closest to Papua New Guinea's territories. Loeb said that the 'discovery and confirmation' of the object could be utilized to formulate a new model of the extraterrestrial factors we are looking for.
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Galileo Project's Search for Interstellar Life
In a report by the Scientific American, Loeb would be introducing an AI-powered telescope developed by Harvard that specializes in capturing detection of unknown materials, crafts, and even beings from space.
The naval-based retrieval operation led by Loeb would utilize a technique called 'scooping magnets' that can cover almost ten kilometers of the Pacific Ocean's sea bed believed to be the landing site of the interstellar meteor, The Byte reports.
Loeb's mission, called the Galileo Project, would be accomplished through the help of nearly $2 million to fund the AI telescope and the entire operation. Much like his suspicion toward Oumuamua, Loeb strongly believes that the CNEOS-2014-01-08, lying quietly under Pacific waters, contains traces of extraterrestrial origins.
Loeb's massive efforts on finding cosmic neighbors are not as bizarre as our collective knowledge once thought before.
Last year, the US Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a comprehensive report about 'unidentified aerial phenomena' or UAP. However, this had cut the expectations of many of us, as the agencies stated that most of their findings were merely terrestrial in origin, such as foreign drones and lost air balloons.
The US defense agency is contrasted by a recent report from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Through a Freedom of Information Act, DIA was pushed to publicize over 1,500 pages of confidential files that contained alleged UAP studies led by the Pentagon between 2007 and 2021.
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