July 26, 2021 / T223
The Galileo Project announced
Harvard University-associated project, Massachusetts
Witness account
The Galileo Project was publicly announced as a research effort seeking physical evidence of possible extraterrestrial technological activity, including through systematic observations relevant to UAP. Avi Loeb and collaborators emphasized acquiring new data with dedicated instruments. The launch is best placed in the history of scientific methods and institutions rather than treated as the announcement of a discovered extraterrestrial object.
Public record
The project's own announcement and later ground rules describe its aims and methods. Its stated approach includes publicly discussable data, analysis under known physics and scientific publication. Subsequent instrument and observatory papers provide a way to assess what was actually built and measured, distinct from the ambitions described at the launch.