In recent years, interest in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) has grown significantly, prompting institutions and scientists to seek new tools to study them. In 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a report with declassified information on UAPs, followed by annual reports from the Department of Defense through the Office of All-Domain Anomaly Resolution (AARO). Despite these advances, the scientific data available to the public remains limited.
To fill this gap, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Galileo Project have developed an innovative observatory. It's called Dalek, an infrared camera designed to scan the sky for possible traces of extraterrestrial spacecraft, reports A2 CNN.
The project, led by Laura Domine of Harvard University, is part of the Galileo Project, and was presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2025 (LPSC 2025), with details published in the journal Sensors.
Dalek builds on NASA recommendations in a 2023 study and emphasizes the importance of highly responsive sensors capable of collecting data on UAPs in milliseconds, recording their movement, shape, color and even sound. The observatory is the first in an expanding network, with two more facilities under construction in Pennsylvania and Nevada. These instruments operate in multiple spectral bands, including infrared, optical, radio and audio, enabling multisensory monitoring of objects in the sky, writes A2 CNN.
According to Professor Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project, the operating observatories collect around 100,000 objects per month, contributing to the largest database ever created on aerial phenomena. The analysis of this data is done through sophisticated machine learning algorithms, including You Only Look Once (YOLO) for object detection and Simple Online and Realtime Tracking (SORT) for trajectory reconstruction.
In the first five months of operation, the team studied half a million objects, identifying anomalies in about 16% of the observed trajectories. Of these, 144 remain unexplained, but could stem from ordinary objects whose nature cannot be determined without further data.
The goal of the project is to isolate any evidence of technologies beyond those known to man, so-called technofirms. Loeb says that even one anomalous object in a million could represent a major discovery, suggesting the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations with advanced scientific knowledge.
If the Dalek Initiative succeeds in discovering unexplained phenomena, it could change the way we understand the cosmos and our position within it. (A2 Televizion)
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