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In a recent episode of Camp Gagnon, Sean Hazlett shares insights about the official plan for UFO disclosure. His remarks may pique interest, particularly as the governmental transparency surrounding UAPs continues to evolve. Hazlett's discussion touches on the complexities of the disclosure process, a topic that remains crucial given the increasing public scrutiny of governmental UAP investigations.
While Hazlett explores the topic of UFO disclosure, there’s a notable lack of concrete evidence or specific examples shared in the video, which can be frustrating for those seeking substantial details. He mentions a variety of themes, including supernatural phenomena and rituals for contacting UFOs, which, while intriguing, veer away from the more pressing issues of documented UAP encounters and government investigations. This deviation might dilute the focus for viewers primarily interested in credible UAP evidence.
Hazlett's presentation serves as a reminder of the broader narrative surrounding UFO disclosure, emphasizing that while discussions are essential, they must be grounded in verifiable information. The audience could benefit from a more rigorous examination of specific UAP cases and government findings, which would enhance the credibility of discussions around the disclosure plan. Without concrete details, claims can seem speculative rather than informative.
Moreover, the absence of significant footage or declassified documents in the discussion raises questions about the depth of the investigation into UAPs. As more witnesses and whistleblowers come forward, the effectiveness of the disclosure plan may hinge on how transparently the government addresses these testimonies. The lack of specifics in the video highlights a gap that persists in the current discourse surrounding UFOs.
In the context of ongoing governmental efforts to address UAPs, this video could be perceived as a double-edged sword. On one hand, it encourages dialogue and openness; on the other, it risks leading viewers into interpretations rather than informed conclusions. The past has shown that without robust evidence, such discussions can quickly lead to misconceptions or false narratives about the reality of UFOs, especially when addressing non-human intelligence.
As we continue to navigate the landscape of UAP disclosure, the critical question remains: How can we ensure that discussions, such as those led by Hazlett, are both engaging and grounded in substantive evidence? Balancing speculation with verified information will be key to fostering a more informed public discourse on UFOs and the government’s role in transparency.
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By Avi Loeb Medium
A photo from 1887 of a cowboy settler in the American Wild West frontier. Note the resemblance of the hat to a flying saucer. (Image credit: Wikimedia)NASA targets early 2028 for the Artemis IV mission to land human astronauts on the South Pole of the Moon. This will constitute a major milestone towards establishing a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. Is this the beginning of a new Wild West frontier without natives?
A permanent Artemis base camp on the lunar South Pole would serve as a testbed for developing technologies of power supply and resource utilization, needed for future human missions to Mars. The base camp would offer a fresh start where a new community of astronauts may thrive, pioneering novel ways of living, similar to the American Wild West frontier.
As in the days of the Gold Rush, companies and nations will seek to exploit resources like water ice, helium-3 (a rare isotope on Earth suitable for future fusion reactors), and rare Earth elements like scandium, yttrium, and 15 lanthanides (essential for electronics and advanced technologies). Underground reserves of water ice are precious for producing drinking water, and breaking water molecules by electrolysis into their constituent oxygen (for breathing) and hydrogen (for rocket fuel).
Just as lawlessness prevailed in the American Old West, enforcement of international law will be difficult on the Moon. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (accessible here) provides a framework, but is inadequate for governing private activities or disputes (as discussed here). Early lunar outposts by separate commercial enterprises will likely be small, isolated, and operate with a high degree of autonomy, leading to an environment where rules are made on the go, akin to early, unorganized mining camps.
Unlike Mars, the Moon never had an atmosphere and liquid water on its surface. Hence, the chemistry of life-as-we-know-it did not give rise to indigenous species of organisms. The lunar surface may therefore be regarded as a truly virgin land, without a moral obligation to protect native occupants. This does not apply to Mars, which may have hosted a rich ecosystem of life before it lost its atmosphere two billion years ago (as discussed here).
Whereas the American Old West was settled by individuals who could survive on their own, the lethal lunar environment — as described in my recent essay here, requires technological interdependence and a major community effort. Unlike the old American pioneers who could move West with limited means, lunar exploration is a “billionaire’s game,” accessible only to large organizations.
The hazardous lunar environment is far more dangerous to human health than that encountered by early American settlers, as it is bombarded by energetic cosmic-rays and micrometeorites (as discussed here), exposes shadowed regions to extremely cold temperatures (down to several tens of degrees above absolute zero), possess a low surface -gravity which triggers substantial bone mass loss in the human body over periods of years (as discussed here), and is covered by sharp shards of rock akin to broken glass (as discussed here).
The international legal system must update its agreements for space exploration, beyond the 60-year-old Outer Space Treaty (available here).
A much more major update will be needed once humanity will become ambitious enough to pursue destinations beyond the Solar System. Such ambitions will likely be pursued by space robots with artificial intelligence. They will represent a completely “new Wild West,” since international law does not apply in interstellar space — which may below to other technological civilizations. If we find out that our backyard in the Solar System was invaded by alien technological probes, we will be inspired to visit the backyard of their senders. The Galileo Project under my leadership searches for such probes in its data sets.
Yesterday, I was pleased to hear the background music of Starman by David Bowie in a video clip tweeted by congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna about her visit to the Galileo Project at Harvard, accessible here and here. There is no better description of my day job than `Starman’.
Within 7.6 billion years, the Moon will return back to Earth as a result of its drag on the envelope of the Sun, which will likely engulf the Earth-Moon system at that time (as discussed here). As a result, all of our technological assets on the Moon will crash on Earth and international law will have no meaning because all nations will cease to exist on our planet.
The Universe is under no contract to follow our international treaties. With a deep sense of humility, our descendants will be wise to embark on an interstellar journey by then, sailing towards the unknown just as the American settlers did in the Old West. Their survival will be our only way to be remembered in the history books of the Milky-Way galaxy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(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.
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https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Social media:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb
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By Avi Loeb Medium
(Image credit: Newsmax)Today, April 8, 2026, the Artemis II spacecraft will carry the four humans who reached farther than any human did, back to their home planet, Earth.
Below a transcript of a new interview I had this morning in the company of former NASA astronaut, Winston (Win) E. Scott, with the anchor Shannon Cake on Newsmax (accessible in video form here). Shannon’s questions are marked with SC, while my and Win’s answers are marked with AL and WS, respectively.
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SC: I want to bring in former NASA astronaut Captain Winston Scott and Harvard University professor Dr. Avi Loeb.
Avi, I was watching your face as we were about to come to you and you were just beaming,
hearing that communication. Good morning to both of you. Great to see you.
So, this amazing Artemis II mission, they make this space-to-space call with the ISS yesterday. This is a milestone. It really does just highlight how far communication technology has come in space. Dr. Loeb, let’s start with you, and then we go to the captain.
AL: What is really remarkable about this mission is the technology that is being used now that is so much better than the Apollo missions. Communication is far more rapid with
38 gigabytes transmitted per day, and that allows us to see beautiful images that we’ve
never seen before of the Moon.
In particular, we see a lot of small craters. It is possible to assess how many small asteroid impacts compared to big impacts occurred on the surface of the Moon. When the Moon
formed, it was molten rock so the surface was initially completely smooth. But now,
after 4.5 billion years, there are lots of craters that scarred the Moon and we can learn a lot about its history. In fact, the astronauts saw flashes of light from impacts as they passed near the Moon.
But most importantly were the images of the Earth rising, because they give us a sense of how precious is the planet that we live on. When you live at home as a kid, you don’t appreciate your home as much as when you leave it as an adult and look at it from a distance.
And that means a lot because we are all in the same boat. We better work together to resolve conflicts. That’s what President Trump did overnight.
SC: Yeah, what a message that is. You’re right, Dr. Loeb. Well said, as you look on it our Earth is beautiful from outer space.
The Earth behind the Moon, as viewed by the Artemis II crew. (Image credit: NASA)Captain Scott, I would imagine the ability to update the images of Earth from deep space. What does that mean to you to be able to bring those images back to humanity? It’s quite significant.
WS: Oh, absolutely. It’s quite significant. And the progress that we have made with computing power and processing power, of course, makes that all possible. And it just enables us to conduct better and more detailed science, more detailed exploration, not only the Moon, but our own home planet.
The entire mission is absolutely incredible and testament to the men and women who’ve made this possible. It’s really fun and fascinating to me that we have people on the space station a couple of hundred miles above the Earth and then people on a Moon spaceship hundreds of thousands of miles away and communicating back and forth with each other, communicating with those of us on the ground. Just incredible technology and a testament to American ingenuity and American leadership in science, technology, engineering and math. You could hear the excitement in the astronauts’ voices yesterday. This kind of moment for astronauts are being, you know, so far from Earth.
SC: Who is the closest human who can really understand maybe a little bit of what I’m feeling? I have been a fly on the wall and watched you, Captain Scott, listening to that conversation. What a moment it really was.
WS: Oh, absolutely. You know, words just don’t describe it. Even though I’m not there myself, reflecting back on my space shuttle missions and then listening and watching the faces from both crews is just a moment of pride for me and a moment of excitement for me. And I almost, I don’t want to use the word envy, but I’m proud and happy for these young people. I sure would love to be up there with them. Yeah, put me in, Coach.
SC: I bet there were a few of those feelings running through you yesterday as you listened to the conversation and watched this incredible mission launch bring us back so much information.
Let’s talk about that. The pictures from the far side of the Moon. Dr. Loeb, you were talking about them a moment ago. Incredible. So how do they unpack it a bit further for us? How do they inform you and your work, Dr. Loeb, and scientists globally on lunar geology and then even more broadly, to your point, evolution?
AL: Most interestingly, the Moon suffers a lot of impacts. And some of the impacts are rocks from the solar system. Some of them are objects from interstellar space. And we can learn much more about those impacts because there is no atmosphere to burn up the objects before they impact the Moon.
We should keep in mind also that the moon came from Earth. It was chipped off by a collision of. an object the size of Mars about 4.5 billion years ago. And actually,
the Moon will also return to Earth in the distant future, 7.6 billion years from now,
when the Sun will expand and engulf both the Earth and the moon. The drag on the envelope of the Sun will bring the moon back crashing on Earth. So, the moon is part of Earth in a way, and we are just examining the ancient conditions on Earth when we study the Moon. because not much has happened to this piece of rock.
And, of course, there are lots of opportunities to put scientific instruments on the Moon, such as radio telescopes or optical interferometers because it has no atmosphere. There is no radio interference on the far side. This is in addition, of course, to national security objectives in going to the Moon. That’s what the Artemis program is aiming to do.
(Image credit: Newsmax)SC: Yeah, absolutely. Captain, you know, I know that the astronauts, when they were on the far side of the Moon, they had to work of quickly. They weren’t there long, maybe seven, eight hours most, the 40-minute interval where they had no communication at all with us. But they had to really work fast and hard because the opportunity to see what Dr. Loeb has laid out, the significance of their research, that is just years and years of training of doing the same drills that may seem mundane when you’re going through your training. But when you have seven hours to pull that off, talk to me about the pressure.
WS: Absolutely. And you’re right. They do spend years and years training for essentially a seven-hour period of time. And no amount of training, no matter how high the fidelity, can match the real thing. When the astronauts get there on the far side of the Moon, they have to execute these tasks in real time. There are some things that occur that you don’t anticipate in training. There may be other targets that they did not see, that something may not appear at the same angle as they saw. But in training, the cameras may not function properly. So, you are right. There’s a lot that goes into it, and there’s a lot of pressure on them.
But one of the things that attracts people like the Orion astronauts and myself is that challenge. You want to get there. You want to do the job. You want to do it well. You want to be able to handle any sort of unexpected things that crop up. And based on the images that we got back, I think the crew has done an amazing job.
SC: We’re going to provide a lot of great data for the geologists here on Earth to study, learn more about our Moon, about our Earth, about the evolution of our Solar System. Well, we know today that two things have popped up too, as you mentioned, Dr. Loeb, were two craters that we weren’t expecting. And I can only imagine the crew sitting there going: “wait, we didn’t know about that one.” And to your point, Captain Scott, the scramble of let me get this, this becomes your priority. They named one of them: `Integrity’, the name of the capsule that they’re flying. And then the other crater they named a very special name.
I want to play a quick clip, involving the Canadian astronaut, Jeremy Hansen. You can feel the emotion from outer space, deep outer space there. Just to bring context to it, in 2020 Commander Reid Weisman’s wife, Carroll, passed away from cancer. And so, they named that crater, that bright, beautiful crater, Carroll, in her honor and to honor her children as well.
What a moment, Captain, that was.
WS: Absolutely. And you’re right, a very, very moving and touching moment. And I think in this case, very, very appropriate. And I’m at a loss of words as to what this all means.
But I think everybody that heard that can’t help but feel a little bit of the emotion that went
into the naming of that prayer, Carroll. And I do hope that from now until eternity. That name will stick and we will honor the wife of Commander Weisman and the mother of his children.
SC: Meanwhile, they’re making quick work. These astronauts are getting back to Earth now. The Friday splashdown off the coast of California expected the move to enter the Earth’s gravitational pull. It is incredibly risky. Dr. Loeb, what does that look like? And then I’ll end with you, Captain Scott.
AL: Right now, the spacecraft is following gravity, but it will eventually need to maneuver a bit in order to get to the right spot. These are all relatively secure procedures.
I should say that it’s very appropriate to name a crater on the Moon after Carroll, but also there are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. There is more than one star to name per person on Earth.
And just think about the sky at night. The universe has much more real estate than we find here on Earth. And it opens opportunities for our future. So, it’s very inspiring. And I very much hope that the young kids watching this will be inspired to become scientists or technologists because we didn’t have that experience of humans getting so far for 54 years.
SC: Captain Scott, very quickly as we had to break here, your thoughts on this tricky mission, entering the Earth’s gravitational pull, sir.
WS: Yeah, well, of course, they’re already in the Earth’s gravitational pull. The telling moment is going to be when they hit entry interface. That is when the vehicle intercepts the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s somewhere around 400,000 feet. That’s when you begin to sense the drag on the capsule, when it begins to slow down and when there’s the most dangerous part. You’re going so fast that air ionizes at super-hot temperatures outside. We want the thermal protection system or the heat shield to be working properly to keep these folks safe as they reenter and parachute to the ocean.
I am confident that it will all work well and we’ll welcome them back home in a couple of days.
SC: From your lips to God’s ears, we will all be watching and praying. Former NASA astronaut Captain Winston Scott and Harvard University professor Dr. Avi Loeb. Gentlemen, great conversation. Good to see you.
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(Image credit: Newsmax2)Last night, April 7, 2026, I was interviewed by the anchor Rick Leventhal on Newsmax2 (accessible in video form here). Rick’s questions are marked with RL, while my answers are marked with AL, respectively.
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RL: Joining us now is a guy who might have some answers to the burning questions of, is there life in outer space? Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University, Professor Avi Loeb.
Professor, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here.
AL: Thanks for having me.
RL: So, what is the likelihood alien civilizations exist?
AL: Well, first, I wanted to salute President Trump for opening new frontiers. The one that we are all familiar with is artificial intelligence. It’s becoming exponentially better over timescales of years. And President Trump is leading the way on that. The second is the rejuvenation of space exploration. The Artemis II mission is doing fantastically
well. We have views of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun that we’ve never had before.
And you might wonder, how come the images are so crisp, clear? That’s because the spacecraft is transmitting 38 gigabytes per day. That’s much more than the Apollo missions ever did. So that’s a new frontier being enabled by optical communication lasers.
But the third frontier that President Trump opens is the potential for disclosure of information on alien intelligence. And I should say that is the most exciting of them all because artificial intelligence is based on a training data set limited to our Earth, whereas alien intelligence is based on a training data set that comes from the universe at large.
There is much more real estate beyond Earth. And so, the question is: does the U.S.
government have interesting information? As you mentioned, there is a task force led by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. And if we get a glimpse at what the government knows, then I would be delighted to help them figure it out.
You know, that is the most exciting question in science. “Are we alone?” is also the most romantic question in science.
RL: Professor, my understanding is your own research has suggested the existence of molecular oxygen on Earth-sized planets in their sun’s habitable zone. Explain to us what that means as succinctly as you can for the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
AL: There are about 100 billion stars like the sun in the Milky Way galaxy alone. And about 10 percent of them have a planet the size of the Earth, roughly at the same separation. We all think that life started on Earth from a soup of chemicals on the surface. And if you start with similar conditions in billions of other places, it’s very likely that you’ll get similar outcomes. The fundamental question is, which of these exoplanets — planets around other stars, have life-as-we-know-it?
We don’t know. One way to check is to find oxygen in the atmospheres of those planets.
And indeed, there is a plan for a 10-billion-dollar space telescope that within two decades will be able to look for that. But there is another approach, which is to check for any packages in our mailbox. That’s a completely different approach. Maybe there is a tennis ball in our backyard that was thrown by a neighbor. Maybe there is something else. The Pentagon or the intelligence agencies might have a clue about, because if there are any probes close to Earth, they might have collected data over the decades regarding that. And,
of course, some of it is classified because it was obtained by classified sensors. But there might be other data that could be declassified. I would love to look at it.
I am leading the Galileo project that is collecting new data using new observatories that we
constructed. We also went to an expedition to the Pacific Ocean to collect materials from an
interstellar object. So, there is a lot to do. But overall, I think this is information that we
should share with the public because, we are all in the same boat here on Earth. That’s the message we got from Artemis II.
RL: Couldn’t agree more. Professor Avi Loeb, unfortunately, we have to leave it there because of all the breaking news. But we appreciate your joining the show. And let us know if you find any aliens.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(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, former 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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By Avi Loeb Medium
Image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (top left panel) from a 0.25-meter telescope in Calabria, Italy, taken on December 15, 2025 at 1:58 UTC with 1.38 arcseconds per pixel — corresponding to 3,850 kilometers at the source distance. The other three panels show a brightness map at different wavelength bands centered on 0.658 [R], 0.53 (Green) and 0.445 (Blue) micrometers, using a Larson-Sekanina gradient filter. Their field of view spans 1.6 by 0.7 million kilometers and shows a prominent tightly-collimated anti-tail jet from 3I/ATLAS in the sunward direction, towards the bottom left corner. (Image credit: Toni Scarmato)My latest essay, available here, listed 15 anomalies of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The following morning before my routine jog at sunrise, I had the following exchange with my esteemed colleague, the astrophysics Professor Josh Winn from Princeton University. He wrote:
“Dear Avi,
I’ve been following this story, and your interpretations, with interest and enjoyment. But there has been something bothering me and I finally feel moved to write you about it.
To my knowledge, none of the anomalies were predicted, and hence, I cannot take seriously the very low probabilities that have been assigned to them. For example, it is interesting that the trajectory is nearly anti-aligned with the ecliptic, but it also would have been interesting if the orbital plane had been aligned, perpendicular to, exactly 45° from, …, the ecliptic. Or aligned with the Sun’s equatorial plane, or Pluto’s orbit, or Halley’s Comet … Or if the trajectory had pointed back to a known star, or the galactic center, or the anti-center, or the galactic poles, or the LMC, etc. It is interesting that the trajectory makes close passes to a few planets but not Earth, but it also would have been interesting if the trajectory made close passes to any subset of planets, or only to the Earth, or if it avoided any close approaches with planets despite being near the ecliptic.
This problem is avoided if predictions are made in advance. Can we make definite predictions for the future behavior of the object under the hypothesis that it is technological?
Did anyone predict that coming close to a planet’s Hill radius would be a sign of technological origin? Or that the nickel/iron ratio would be unusual? That jets would emerge in special directions? I remember reading about a prediction that the object would perform a certain maneuver near perihelion — can that be ruled out?
Noticing anomalies is obviously important, but without trying to make and test predictions, there is something important missing.
Best wishes,
Josh”
My reply was as follows:
“Dear Josh,
A predictable anomaly is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. The nature of an anomaly is that it is unexpected, an outlier. Quantum mechanics stemmed from anomalies of classical physics. And even after it was discovered, Albert Einstein insisted that quantum mechanics cannot have `spooky action at a distance’. When discovering new knowledge, we should not assume that our imagination is good enough to forecast this knowledge. When I started astrophysics 38 years ago, the possible existence of hot Jupiters was definitely not forecasted or included as a target to search for in the folklore of observers.
Regarding my list of anomalies for 3I/ATLAS: the existence of nickel without iron is a result of the carbonyl pathway for the industrial production of nickel alloys. We have never seen it in comets so it is an anomaly. It is a technological signature in the same way that artificial light on the nightside of an exoplanet would be.
When detectives arrive at the scene of a crime, your methodology would ask them to ignore unusual facts because they did not forecast them before arriving there. I say that this is the wrong approach to crack the mystery of the crime, and any practicing detective — including fictional ones like Sherlock Holmes, would have agreed with me.
Happy Hannukah!
Avi”
Josh replied promptly:
“Thanks, Avi, for taking the time to reply — and Happy Hannukah!
I agree that it’s very important to notice anomalies and take them seriously. My point was that to convince oneself and other people of a hypothesis, one needs to go further — one must use the anomalies to construct theories that make predictions that are then confirmed.
A problem with the hypothesis that 3I/ATLAS is of technological origin is that it is very flexible, because of the unknown goals and technologies involved, and can therefore be retrospectively considered compatible with just about any anomaly.
I’d like to see some predictions that can be tested, and likewise, a list of possible observations that would rule out the possibility that 3I/ATLAS is of technological origin. Think about how the situation would differ if you’d written a paper a year ago with rational arguments that technological visitors would likely arrive on retrograde orbits and come to perihelion at solar opposition!
Relatedly, I think the “a posteriori” probabilities that you refer to in various messages are misleading, because the statistical questions are constructed after already knowing the observations. The probability of interest is not “how likely is it that a random trajectory would be so close to retrograde” — rather, it is “how likely is it that a random trajectory will have any combination of parameters that can be regarded retrospectively as interesting”? The latter probability is difficult to calculate but is probably high. It’s like picking a random integer and then afterward trying to see if there’s anything interesting about it … it’s almost always possible to find something interesting (see, e.g., https://mathigon.org/almanac)
If you disagree, would you like to make a bet with an odds ratio of (0.2%) * (0.5%) * (0.5%)² = 0.00000000025, the product of probabilities cited in your recent message, that the object will turn out to be of technological origin? That is, if it is of technological origin, I pay you $1, and if it is not of technological origin, you pay me $4 billion? I’ll lower the payout to $1 billion to make it even more enticing.
Josh”
In concluding our exchange, I wrote:
“What you’d like to see in terms of a prediction is irrelevant as to the question of whether a conjecture is real. The fact that hot Jupiters were not predicted does not mean that the anomalies they represented in the minds of traditional thinkers were not real just because they were not predicted ahead of time. There is a sense of arrogance in the way you formulate the idea that we should predict or expect new knowledge. In fact, the most exciting aspect of science is the unknown unknowns, even though we usually fund projects that search for the known unknowns. The foundation of science is the humility to learn, not the arrogance of expertise.
I am not claiming that 3I/ATLAS is technological but only stating that we should consider its anomalies with this possibility in mind.”
Interestingly, the Chronicle of Higher Education published here a couple of days ago an article by Sally Satel titled: “Are Bad Researchers Bad People: The absence of humility, integrity and open-mindedness isn’t just a moral failure. It’s a methodological one.” The opening sentence of the article states:
“Charles Darwin set a “golden rule” for his study of nature. Whenever he encountered information that ran counter to his ideas, he would make a note of it “without fail and at once.” Why? Because, as Darwin wrote in his autobiography, “such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.”
In another passage, Sally writes: “In addition to epistemic humility, other virtues, as…, Intellectual Virtues, include open-mindedness, love of knowledge, and generosity (sharing intellectual goods), alongside such traits as ‘intellectual courage’ (willingness to consider difficult, unpopular, or counterintuitive ideas) and ‘intellectual firmness’ (the ability to balance one’s belief against letting go in the face of compelling evidence).”
I rest my case, Josh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(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.
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By USH
The mystery of unidentified drones remains unresolved, with government authorities offering little clarity. Officials have downplayed the incidents, asserting there is no threat to national security and attributing many sightings to aircraft such as planes or helicopters. However, the lack of transparency has only fueled public speculation and heightened concerns.
What people/experts say:
Some speculate that these drones are part of covert operations designed to detect dirty bombs or nuclear devices or theses drones are part of an advanced surveillance systems operated by certain agencies.
The Space Force could be conducting classified exercises, such as testing cutting-edge technology or performing communication lockdown drills to evaluate detection and evasion capabilities.
A former CIA officer has suggested that the drones may be part of government efforts to trial advanced technologies in urban environments.
Reports indicate these drones exhibit unusual traits, such as lacking heat signatures and evading detection. They might employ RF jamming or encrypted communications, potentially causing unintentional disruptions to civilian electronics, including power outages, while avoiding capture.
Intelligence analysts have compared the drones to Russian Orlan-10 or Iranian Shahed-136 models, raising suspicions of international espionage.
But, the most striking statement came from Elon Musk, who warned earlier this year about the arrival of epic drone wars. He said that drone swarm battles are coming that will boggle the mind. What does he know that we don’t?
A large drone flying at a slow speed, shooting out or launching multiple smaller drones at a relatively high speed.
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