An AI Camera Could Soon Be Scanning the Skies for Aliens

A new study led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Galileo Project proposed an All-Sky Infrared Camera called Dalek to scan Earth’s skies for signs of aliens or extraterrestrial spacecraft. This seems like a promising step in the right—and more transparent—direction.

The AI camera has been developed based on NASA’s previous input. “Purpose-built future sensors for UAP detection should be designed to adjust on millisecond timescales to aid better detection,” NASA stated in a 2023 independent study. “In lockstep, alert systems should detect and share transient information quickly and uniformly.”

“Multisensor platforms are important for providing a complete picture of a UAP event,” NASA continued. “An object’s motion should be recorded, as well as its shape (imaging data), color (multispectra or hyperspectral data), and any sounds and other characteristics.”

Newly-Proposed Infrared AI Camera Could Scan the Sky for Aliens

Similarly, the new paper proposes a “multi-modal, multi-spectral ground-based observatory to continuously monitor the sky and collect data for UAP studies via a rigorous long-term aerial census of all aerial phenomena, including natural and human-made.” This is in an effort to address the lack of “publicly available scientific data on unidentified aerial phenomena,” the paper states.

“Often U.S. government data is classified, either because it was collected by classified sensors or because it is not fully understood and could potentially be relevant for national security,” Professor Avi Loeb, Head of the Galileo Project, told Universe Today. “However, the sky is not classified, and so the Galileo Project is operating an all-sky observatory at Harvard University and constructing two other observatories in Pennsylvania and Nevada that are searching for anomalous objects in the infrared, optical, radio, and audio bands.”

Should they find anything lurking in the sky, this could lead to more transparency surrounding UFOs and potential extraterrestrial technological civilizations.