Avi Loeb

Why?

Because a year ago, two very distinguished visitors came to the front door of my home.

By the way, lots of interesting people show up at my front door.

This was Jim Dolan, who owns the Madison Square Garden, as you know, and also the Sphere.

And Jane Rosenthal, the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises.

And they made me an offer that I cannot refuse.

And they said, would you be able to put a Galileo project observatory?

I'm leading the Galileo project to look for unusual objects around the Earth.

And they said, could you build an observatory on top of the sphere?

Because, you know, Jim Dolan really is interested in science and especially in finding objects.

you know, whether there is some alien intelligence out there.

And I said, of course, I will be delighted.

So that was September 2024, one year after the sphere was opened with a U2 concert, as you may know.

I don't know if you've been there.

Yeah, UFC, exactly.

So anyway...

I was there just a few months ago with my research team.

We went all the way to the top and installed, as you can see here, an array of infrared cameras that monitors the entire sky above Vegas at all times.

So you can see some of these images show the landscape of Vegas in the background.

It's like a freckle.