Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Frank H. Laukien. galileo.hsites.harvard.edu. February 13, 2023.
Loeb and Laukien outline instrument-based investigations of aerial phenomena, interstellar objects and meteor fragments. The paper describes a research programme and proposed methods, rather than a confirmed anomalous discovery.
Eric Keto, Wesley Andrés Watters. arxiv.org. June 19, 2024.
Keto and Watters test satellite timing on two balloon examples and a snowy scene where ground alignment fails. Apparent fast motion is parallax. Timing is inferred under fixed-rate and negligible-motion assumptions, with incomplete independent ground truth and uncertainty.
Eric Keto, Wesley Andrés Watters. arxiv.org. May 18, 2024.
Keto and Watters use satellite imaging timing to examine apparent motion in one processed scene. Viewing geometry, altitude and mosaicing affect speed estimates. Proposed classifiers are not validated deployments, and a tenfold arithmetic discrepancy remains unresolved in the HTML rendition.
Andrew Mead, Sarah Little, Paul Sail, Michelle Tu, Wesley Andrés Watters, Abigail White, Richard Cloete. arxiv.org. May 5, 2023.
The Galileo team describes acoustic monitoring across three frequency bands, using known aircraft examples and proposed future analysis methods. This is an instrumentation paper, with no confirmed anomalous-object detection; Loeb is not a named author.
Loeb argues that assumed high atmospheric speeds should produce strong frictional luminosity, and that a shorter inferred range could permit ordinary explanations. His conditional critique supplies no raw-observation refit or identified object. The paper acknowledges Galileo Project support and a Breakthrough Prize Foundation grant; it does not document the unnamed official visit separately reported in his book.
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