America's Leading Alien Hunters Depend on AI to Speed Their Search

Harvard University's Galileo Project is using AI to automate the search for unidentified anomalous phenomena, marking a significant shift in how academics approach what was once considered fringe research. The project operates a Massachusetts observatory equipped with infrared cameras, acoustic sensors, and radio-frequency analyzers that continuously scan the sky for unusual objects.

Researchers Laura Domine and Richard Cloete are training machine learning algorithms to recognize all normal aerial phenomena -- planes, birds, drones, weather balloons -- so the system can flag genuine anomalies for human analysis. The team uses computer vision software called YOLO (You Only Look Once) and has generated hundreds of thousands of synthetic images to train their models, though the software currently identifies only 36% of aircraft captured by infrared cameras.

The Pentagon is pursuing parallel efforts through its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which has examined over 1,800 UAP reports and identified 50 to 60 cases as "true anomalies" that government scientists cannot explain. AARO has developed its own sensor suite called Gremlin, using similar technology to Harvard's observatory. Both programs represent the growing legitimization of UAP research following 2017 Defense Department disclosures about military encounters with unexplained aerial phenomena.

Don't say alien

[Valgrus Thunderaxe]

It's now undocumented extraterrestrial.

FoilGPT

[Tablizer]

They are sent to Uranus without a fair trial.

Aliens?

[larryjoe]

"America's Leading Alien Hunters". At first glance, I thought the article would be about the US border patrol [dhs.gov].

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[Woeful Countenance]

Or Peter Bach [fandom.com] (except he's the "Alien Tracker", not "Hunter").

My God they've done it

[rsilvergun]

They have found a single greatest use for AI ever. Something where the hallucinations aren't a bug but a feature.

Ugh I thought it was joking

[rsilvergun]

Apparently AI hallucinations are creating cult leaders now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E77Rmjw-Cc [youtube.com]

hmmm.. so do they train it on pictures of UFOs?

[Big Hairy Gorilla]

So they show it pictures of ducks and sparrows and then say, point out what doesn't look like that?
or do they show it pictures like what we get from Hollywood, flying saucers? or those blurry shots from the air force?

"... though the software currently identifies only 36% of aircraft captured ..."
It's bird, it's a plane, itssss a..... oh, it is a bird. They might want to work on that, or maybe hire some children who know what a bird and a plane are.

Also, they are Hunters and American, so, show me the guns.
Al

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[geekmux]

So they show it pictures of ducks and sparrows and then say, point out what doesn't look like that?or do they show it pictures like what we get from Hollywood, flying saucers? or those blurry shots from the air force?

(Air Force) ”You need to do better!”

(AI) “Oh, OK. Hey, is that a..”

(Air Force) ”Why, yes it is! Good job!”

(Area 51) ”What?! No. NO! The fuck are you doing?”

(Air Force) ”Oh wait, sorry. Bad AI! BAAAD. Delete that.”

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[martin-boundary]

Yes, Avi Loeb is a crackpot.

IR rooftop camera in Cambridge MA will see...

[RightwingNutjob]

Depending on field of view and aperture:

Planes in and out of Logan, Boire Field, Hanscom Field.

Planes pulling banners circling Fenway Park on game days.

The Goodyear Blimp, also on game days.

Drones and toy airplanes being flown where they're supposed to be and where they're not supposed to be.

Kites perhaps?

Loose balloons and other trash blowing in the wind.

Birds, insects, leaves also blowing in the wind.

Dandelion fuzz and spider webs apparently have a strong SWIR signature during the day according to a guy I

was once considered fringe research

[Uldis Segliņš]

So if you waste money doing pointless work it is fringe. But add AI to that and you are bonified man at once? They just need to include blockchain and NFTs for it to become the most important research in the world. Forget about medicine or energy, this must be the most nobelized field. Now, everyone bow down for the new God!

It will get really scary

[Woeful Countenance]

It will get really scary when the extraterrestrials become clever enough to start disguising their spaceships as ... airplanes. Or birds ("birds aren't real", you know, and a very large bird far away looks a lot like a smaller bird closer).