Fishing Expedition for UFO by Harvard University Professor

Professor Avi Loeb, Harvard University, said he will be scouring the ocean floor near Papua New Guinea to find out whether the object that crashed into the ocean a decade ago was a rock or an extraterrestrial probe.

“I received $1.5 million last month to go ahead with this expedition,” he said.

Loeb’s fascination with the topic was driven by the discovery of Oumuamua — Hawaiian for “messenger sent from the distant past” — a football-field-sized, cigar-shaped object that zipped through the solar system in 2017.

In a controversial 2019 paper, Loeb speculated that Oumuamua’s unusual trajectory and shape suggested it was neither a comet nor an asteroid, but possibly an alien probe.

“So that’s what brought me into this,” he said.

Loeb and his student wrote a paper about their discovery, but were instructed not to publish it because they used classified government data for their research.

But in April, the US government “confirmed our conclusion in an official letter and said that 99.999 per cent they agree with our assessment”.

“They also released the light curve of the explosion of this object, which revealed that it had material strength tougher than iron, and it was tougher than all the other space rocks that the US government identified over the past decade, about 272 of them,” he said.

Loeb added he didn’t believe that such an object, if discovered, would be confiscated by a government.

“I promised the curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that if we find a gadget at the bottom of the ocean, I will bring it for display in New York,” he said.

“Because it would represent modernity for us, even though it represents ancient history for the senders.”

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This is highly unusual that any government would give $1.5 million dollars for this type of project.

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a reply to: quintessentone

I don't think the money came from the government.

originally posted by: 1947boomer
a reply to: quintessentone

I don't think the money came from the government.

You are right, how naive of me.

Serendipity played a role in the start of this venture, according to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who heads the Galileo Project. In early July, Loeb told Discover, “an administrator in Harvard’s Astronomy Department told me they’d just received $200,000 for my research fund, which someone had donated without even telling me.” A day or so later, Loeb was able to contact the generous individual (whom he didn’t know beforehand), and after their conversation he was given even more money. Since then, other individuals have sent money to support this research effort, no strings attached. In a couple of weeks, Loeb accumulated $1.75 million. “They basically told me: ‘Here is the money. Do with it whatever you think is right,’” he said. “In all my decades in academia, that kind of thing never happens.”

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a reply to: quintessentone

Here’s a Nov 30 posting of Avi Loeb’s underwater expedition…..as well

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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Fishing Expedition for UFO by Harvard University Professor

Fishing or Phishing ?
Only their hairdresser knows for sure .

I remember seeing a late study on Oumuamua showing that it's perceived cigar shape was just due to limited visibility and angle at the time.

And it was later found to be a large unsymetrical chunk of rock and ice or whatever.

originally posted by: Gothmog


Fishing or Phishing ?

Could well be 'phishing'.

a reply to: quintessentone

Any guesses as to who the anonymous philanthropist might be? One name immediately springs to mind...

originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: quintessentone

Here’s a Nov 30 posting of Avi Loeb’s underwater expedition…..as well

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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Oh I should have searched for this topic first. Next time.

originally posted by: Astyanax

Any guesses as to who the anonymous philanthropist might be?

Laurance Rockefeller?


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originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: quintessentone

Any guesses as to who the anonymous philanthropist might be? One name immediately springs to mind...

During Avi's interview on TV he said they were multi-millionaires, so not billionaires. That's all I know.

originally posted by: watchitburn
I remember seeing a late study on Oumuamua showing that it's perceived cigar shape was just due to limited visibility and angle at the time.

And it was later found to be a large unsymetrical chunk of rock and ice or whatever.

That seems logical because the telescope, for all it's glory, can't view the back of these heavenly bodies.

originally posted by: Gothmog

Fishing Expedition for UFO by Harvard University Professor

Fishing or Phishing ?
Only their hairdresser knows for sure .

That is what is making me wonder because Avi said that they will be scouring the ocean floor with 'magnetic scoopers' but doesn't that limit what the magnet will be able to detect. Avi said that he believes Oumuamua contains steel of some sort because it reflected the sun's rays, so maybe some of you experts can help me out here. I'm beginning to think that this expedition will turn up empty.

You're right in the op's name if you're saying the only thing he'll get is some fish, not any alien or USOs.

originally posted by: peaceinoutz
You're right in the op's name if you're saying the only thing he'll get is some fish, not any alien or USOs.

That's the issue for me. Avi was stating that if it were an alien AI probe it may have been travelling for many light years (he states that if alien technology could propel the probe at 1/5 speed of light it would take around 20 years to travel 4 light years) - who knows how advanced other alien races are out there, if at all - they may be able to send probes interstellarly much faster? - why does he think the probe would be detectable with our magnets? He had better be using other high technology to scan the ocean floor as well.

a reply to: quintessentone

He’d be a moron not to use what others are using for hunting treasure and wrecks…..namely Side-scan sonar

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originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: quintessentone

He’d be a moron not to use what others are using for hunting treasure and wrecks…..namely Side-scan sonar

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Fascinating. But, I've been hunting for more on Avi's expedition technology and there is none to be found.

a reply to: quintessentone

Here ya go….a probable part of his expedition technology….😆

Magnet Fishing

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originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: quintessentone

Here ya go….a probable part of his expedition technology….😆

Magnet Fishing

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Hmm, it's specifically titled 'magnetic scooping' where's the scoop? (no pun intended)

a reply to: quintessentone

I suspect if they are to use magnets……it will be huge electromagnets like these for example, but instead boomed or craned from a salvage vessel….


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