Avi Loeb

Could it be adversarial nations?

That's one possibility which has to do with national security.

The second possibility is that it's maybe something from outside of this earth, which would be even more significant.

So either way, we need to figure this out.

And I don't think I'm wasting my time leading the Galileo project to figure out whether there are anomalies that go beyond human-made technologies, because if it turns out that all the objects are human-made, I will be happy to deliver the set of sensors we developed with the machine learning software that we developed

to the Department of War so that they can employ it for national security purposes.

So my time was not wasted as a scientist.

I'm doing something useful to society.

The Department of War can use it.

Have no problem.

Everything made by humans, by the way, is boring as far as I'm concerned.

I want to see something from outside the solar system, which is not what the government should be about.

The government should worry about national security, not about what lies outside the solar system.

That's my job definition

as an astrophysicist, okay?

And so I feel that this is worthy pursuing, but the Galileo Project is really the first organized project

that constructed a reliable set of sensors in an observatory configuration that does systematic study of the sky to collect millions of objects in the sky per year.

We have three observatories, one in Las Vegas, as I mentioned, and by the way, this is the first time it's mentioned publicly.

That's amazing.

And another one in Massachusetts and a third one in Pennsylvania.