Avi Loeb

on top of the sphere, the exosphere, which is the biggest display on Earth.

But we measured that there is not much light pollution, actually, and we can operate this observatory.

We also put an array of visible light cameras there, and it's operating.

And we hope to see a few million objects over the sky of Vegas,

and decide whether any of them has performance that deviates from the envelope of human-made technologies.

How do we do that?

We have the sphere as one point, but then we put two copies of that observatory 10 kilometers away on a triangle.

And that allows us to look at objects in the sky from different directions, just like we have two eyes, so we can gauge the distance.

So here we have three eyes looking at the sky above Vegas, and we can tell the distance, the velocity, the acceleration of objects, and ask whether they are lying within the performance envelopes of human-made objects.

And that would be amazing.

It's very exciting.

I see that...

also as an opportunity to communicate to the public the excitement about science.

That's what Jim Dolan and Jane Rosenthal really wanted to deliver.

And I'm hoping that we will find something really anomalous, because as we know, the intelligence agencies are reporting to the US Congress about objects they cannot identify.

And that could be two things.

They're getting the defense budget for 2026 is a trillion dollars, okay?

If they tell us that with a trillion dollars, there are still objects they cannot identify above the U.S., they're not doing their job.

They're not doing their job, and we should be worried.

Who sent these objects?