The Galileo Project announced this morning that it has hired Jacques Vallée, continuing the Harvard project's descent into Ancient Aliens territory and continuing the UFO industry's move to launder lunatic ideas through the auspices of government, media, and academia. The Galileo Project began as astronomer Avi Loeb's effort to find interstellar objects created by space aliens but has gradually morphed into a full-on effort to hunt flying saucers as Loeb has become enmeshed in the History Channel / Robert Bigelow UFO circle. The Galileo Project recently added Bigelow circle UFO advocates Chris Mellon and Lue Elizondo to its advisory board. Vallée claimed last year that in 1945 the U.S. government recovered an avocado-shaped UFO piloted by tiny space aliens which the aliens had purposely crashed into the Earth to give the United States super technology, a claim Mellon endorsed. Avi Loeb owns this now, even as they praise Vallée for his "wisdom and insights."
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Equally as daft as Christianity
1/24/2022 11:00:13 am
The barbaric practice of confessing sins to the priest only dates from the fourteenth century and the concept was quite unknown to earlier generations of Christians. One example.
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Far Carcosa
1/24/2022 11:21:07 am
So, why the shade thrown on the attempt to coordinate, standardize and centralize collected scientific data from several different disciplines? The pseudoscience label is getting old Jason.
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Darold knowles
1/24/2022 05:35:29 pm
If by “different disciplines” you mean cooky conspiracy theory, lunatic pseudoscience, and spiritual nonsense, then I agree with you.
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Rock Knocker
1/26/2022 01:23:33 pm
MUFON has already been doing this for decades. You think that something the private sector already does can be done better by yet another government bureaucracy that I now have to pay for? You must be new here…..
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Brian
1/24/2022 12:29:46 pm
2 generations of loons = 10 generations of clean-up. Only the oblivion that comes with the passage of time will expunge this stain on human thought.
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Paul
1/24/2022 05:05:19 pm
Just curious, are there any current, science based books that discuss ufo’s and et civilizations? Just looking for recommendations. Not asking for a friend.
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Brian
2/21/2022 10:04:20 pm
The US Government released a report this summer stating that some UAP are both real and inexplicable. They won't share their data. Given that condition, if you want to test the ET hypothesis for the UAP phenomenon, one way to do so is by placing state-of-the-art sensors around to see if you can record something of interest-- Project Galileo.
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