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Six objects reported at 480 mph in a declassified military infrared video show brightness flicker at bird wingbeat rates
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kopparapu, Richard Cloete +3
In September 2026 the U.S. Department of War released an infrared video recorded from a military aircraft over the Middle East, with a mission report describing six small spherical…
A High-Likelihood Polar Interstellar Meteor Candidate
Richard Cloete, Abraham Loeb
We report a newly identified polar interstellar meteor candidate, labeled polarIM, detected on 2026-04-01 02:13:14 UTC at latitude , longitude , and altit…
Two Robust Interstellar Meteor Candidates in the Post-2018 CNEOS Fireball Database
Richard Cloete, Abraham Loeb
We report the identification of two previously unrecognized interstellar meteor candidates in the NASA CNEOS fireball database. Using the empirically calibrated low-discrepancy unc…
Upper Limit on the Non-Gravitational Acceleration and Lower Limits on the Nucleus Mass and Diameter of 3I/ATLAS
Richard Cloete, Abraham Loeb, Peter Vereš
We use astrometric data on 3I/ATLAS compiled by the Minor Planet Center from May 15 to September 23, 2025, and derive an upper limit on any statistically significant deviation from…
Improving the discovery of near-Earth objects with machine-learning methods
Peter Vereš, Richard Cloete, Matthew J. Payne +1
We present a comprehensive analysis of the digest2 parameters for candidates of the Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) that were reported between 2019 and 2024. Our study…
Is the "Dark Comet" 2005 VL1 the Venera 2 Spacecraft?
Abraham Loeb, Richard Cloete
Recently, Seligman et. al. (2024) identified a population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that exhibit statistically significant non-gravitational accelerations with no coma, and labe…
Machine Learning Methods for Automated Interstellar Object Classification with LSST
Richard Cloete, Peter Vereš, Abraham Loeb
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, to be conducted with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Solar System by providing an unpreceden…
Commissioning An All-Sky Infrared Camera Array for Detection Of Airborne Objects
Laura Dominé, Ankit Biswas, Richard Cloete +13
To date there is little publicly available scientific data on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) whose properties and kinematics purportedly reside outside the performance envelop…
Improvement of digest2 NEO Classification Code -- utilizing the Astrometry Data Exchange Standard
Peter Vereš, Richard Cloete, Robert Weryk +2
We describe enhancements to the digest2 software, a short-arc orbit classifier for heliocentric orbits. Digest2 is primarily used by the Near-Earth Object (NEO) community to flag n…
Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition in the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide
Abraham Loeb, Toby Adamson, Sophie Bergstrom +31
We have conducted an extensive towed-magnetic-sled survey during the period 14-28 June, 2023, over the seafloor centered around the calculated path of the bolide CNEOS 2014-01-08 (…
The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-Based Observatories
Wesley Andrés Watters, Abraham Loeb, Frank Laukien +35
(Abridged) Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) have resisted explanation and have received little formal scientific attention for 75 years. A primary objective of the Galileo Proje…
SkyWatch: A Passive Multistatic Radar Network for the Measurement of Object Position and Velocity
Mitch Randall, Alex Delacroix, Carson Ezell +7
(Abridged) Quantitative three-dimensional (3D) position and velocity estimates obtained by passive radar will assist the Galileo Project in the detection and classification of aeri…
A Hardware and Software Platform for Aerial Object Localization
Matthew Szenher, Alex Delacroix, Eric Keto +5
To date, there are little reliable data on the position, velocity and acceleration characteristics of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). The dual hardware and software system des…
Multi-Band Acoustic Monitoring of Aerial Signatures
Andrew Mead, Sarah Little, Paul Sail +4
The Galileo Project's acoustic monitoring, omni-directional system (AMOS) aids in the detection and characterization of aerial phenomena. It uses a multi-band microphone suite span…
Physical Considerations for an Intercept Mission to a 1I/'Oumuamua-like Interstellar Object
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb, Amaya Moro-Martin +7
In this paper, we review some of the extant literature on the study of interstellar objects (ISOs). With the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Telescope and Legacy Survey of Space and Time…