Special Seminar - Avi Loeb (Harvard University) "Searching for Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts Near Earth: Are There Packages in Our Mailbox?"

Over the past decade, the first interstellar objects were discovered, including interstellar meteors such as IM1 detected on January 8, 2014, 1I/`Oumuamua detected on October 19, 2017, 2I/Borisov detected on August 29, 2019 and 3I/ATLAS detected on July 1, 2025. Some of these visitors from outside the solar system showed anomalous properties relative to familiar rocks or icebergs. In June 2023 we recovered 850 molten fragments from the Pacific Ocean site of IM1 which displayed anomalous material strength. A tenth of them have a unique chemical composition, different from familiar solar system materials. 1I/`Oumuamua featured a flat shape and non-gravitational acceleration with no detectable cometary evaporation.  The path of 3I/ATLAS was anomalously aligned to within 5 degrees of the Solar planetary plane. Currently, three Galileo Project Observatories are monitoring near Earth objects in the infrared, optical, radio and audio and analyzing their nature with artificial intelligence. Professor Loeb was recently tasked by the U.S. Government to chair a scientific advisory council that studies unidentified anomalous phenomena. Forthcoming data will address the fundamental question: are products of extraterrestrial technological civilizations lurking near Earth?