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A couple of hours after I posted my latest video, President Trump released the following statement:

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Following this statement, I was invited to participate in 18 television interviews in a single day, including one from Washington, DC. Below are some of the key points I made during those interviews.

Only mediocre scientists are dogmatic about UAP. Curious scientists are humbled by what we do not understand. We do not know what most of the matter in the universe is. We do not know what most of the energy in the universe is. We call them dark matter and dark energy. We also do not know whether we are alone. Given the vast expanse of cosmic space and time, it was presumptuous for Enrico Fermi to ask, “Where is everybody?” over lunch in Los Alamos in 1950.

When anomalies are documented by trustworthy intelligence officers and military personnel, mainstream scientists should be curious enough to investigate what those anomalies mean. So far, the public has not seen the most anomalous data. It remains classified and may include high-resolution satellite imagery or materials from alleged crash sites.

Determining the nature of that evidence is extremely important for national security. It could indicate technological developments by adversarial nations. Even if that turns out not to be the case, studying the evidence is never a waste. It strengthens our ability to protect our nation.

My hope is that the Congressional UAP task force led by the visionary Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna will be able to review evidence that was previously held in secrecy. If detailed scientific analysis is needed, I am ready to assist.

The images and videos released publicly so far are not of high scientific quality. Without precise distance measurements, it is difficult to determine velocities or accelerations. However, the underlying data may contain clues that scientists can analyze rigorously.

For example, if materials were recovered from a crash site, it would be straightforward to test whether they originated beyond the solar system. Even a gram of material is sufficient for isotope analysis using a mass spectrometer. All materials in our solar system formed from the same reservoir. Material from another star would likely exhibit isotopic signatures shaped by a different stellar environment.

Science can help the government and Congress determine whether any evidence collected over the past century may be of interstellar origin.

My interest focuses on nonhuman intelligence and technological products from civilizations beyond the solar system. Intelligence agencies and the Pentagon focus on human-made technologies. Our interests are complementary. If they encounter something outside their expertise, I would be glad to help.

The primary challenge is how to declassify information without compromising national security. One approach is time. Information from 50 years ago is unlikely to be relevant to today’s battlefield technologies. Human-made systems have advanced dramatically.

Another possibility is to release data on objects whose behavior lies outside the envelope of known human technologies. If an object clearly exceeds those limits, it is unlikely to be tied to terrestrial geopolitics. In that case, it would be a matter for scientific inquiry rather than national security.

It is arrogant to assume we are at the top of the cosmic food chain in the Milky Way. If there is a smarter civilization in our cosmic neighborhood, we should learn from it.

If we discovered evidence that a neighbor threw a tennis ball into our backyard, we would not hide it from our family. Similarly, humanity deserves to know if we have a cosmic neighbor. In fact, many people reading the daily news might welcome the idea that a more advanced civilization exists, one that could serve as a better role model than our current family members.

“Are we alone?” is perhaps the most romantic question in science. Answering it would allow us to form a deeper emotional connection with the universe, transforming it from a cold, lonely expanse of matter and radiation into something inhabited.

If presented with a fragment of a spacecraft recovered from a crash site, the first step would be to analyze its composition and determine whether the material originated beyond the solar system. The second step would be to study its structure to see whether it represents technology or science beyond our own. If there is a more advanced civilization in our cosmic neighborhood, this would be an opportunity to learn and advance.

We are living at the beginning of an exciting era. There is a race unfolding between artificial intelligence, which is itself an alien form of intelligence made of silicon rather than flesh and blood, and the possibility of discovering extraterrestrial intelligence from another star.

Which will we encounter first? Without searching, we will not find out.

I am excited to be alive at this moment and to be part of that search.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)

Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.

Professional website:

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/

Social media:

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb

https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb

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