End of the expedition
The Galileo Project's initial expedition to retrieve Interstellar Meteor 1 has ended. Let's revisit my theory, the expedition results and where things might go from here.
Revisiting my original theory
In my first series of posts about this issue, I postulate the following:
The UAP/UFO disinformation operation started with the October 2017 detection of `Oumuamua and not the New York Times’ articles on UAPs which followed a couple months later.
The seemingly disconnected yet contemporaneous plot lines of Avi Loeb/Galileo Project’s efforts and Navy fighters chasing UAPs/secret Pentagon programs/recovered crafts are not disconnected at all.
The UAP/UFO disinformation operation’s objective is to conflate and discredit the valid scientific work being carried out by The Galileo Project with more lurid tales of crashed and recovered crafts complete with alien/demon/inter-dimensional/whatever pilots.
In the course of my subsequent investigation and writing on the subject, I’ve come to believe 1) above is inaccurate. I now believe it’s more likely the disinformation operation began shortly after Interstellar Meteor 1 (IM1) was detected by the DoD in January 2014. Part of the reason for this reassessment is due to learning of the 2015 creation of the UFODATA organization. A couple of key early players in that organization are also intimately connected to the more recent events, including the authoring of the aforementioned NYT articles and the sourcing of the UAP videos highlighted in those articles.
I still believe 2) and 3) are likely correct and all 3 postulates adequately explain all of the events and details we’ve been watching unfold.
Given these postulates, I also go on to make two extremely bold claims:
The IM1 crash site has already been throughly searched.
Conspirators will attempt to hoax the IM1 expedition.
While I appreciate how out-there these claims may be, they still seem likely to me.
The expedition
I began writing about this topic the day after The Debrief article on David Grusch was published. I knew at the time that sometime this summer the IM1 expedition would take place. I had no idea it would begin only 5 days after I started writing.
For the last 2+ weeks, Professor Loeb and members of the Galileo Project team have been off the coast of Papua New Guinea in search of the IM1 crash site. I don’t want to rehash all of the details of the expedition. I highly encourage you to read Professor Loeb’s detailed blog posts on the subject. But the tl;dr is that the team has retrieved and identified magnetic spherules which they believe are consistent with a meteor and its resulting fireball as it impacted Earth’s atmosphere. They also believe there is reason to suspect the composition of the spherules is sufficiently anomalous wrt solar system objects and intend to perform further analysis this week at UC Berkeley using state-of-the-art equipment. They further believe the spatial concentration of these spherules is consistent with IM1’s projected path.
Although the team also found larger shards of iron/steel-like material they intend to analyze, all 50 of the higher-confidence-of-meteoric-origin spherules they found are very small (sub-millimeter diameter.) If there were a previous comprehensive search of the area it is pretty much impossible that all of the spherules would have been successfully recovered and removed from the sea floor.
The team found no larger relic(s) but acknowledged they would need sonar equipment to more effectively locate any substantial wreckage around the crash site. In this expedition, the team primarily made use of a magnet-lined sled. It’s not clear to me why they traveled half-way around the world without the sonar equipment in the first place but I guess hindsight is always 20/20. In any case, they have already begun planning another expedition to the area with sonar gear.
Now what?
The initial expedition didn’t find any obvious technological artifacts. But that doesn’t mean a hoax wasn’t attempted. Something could still be sitting there lying in wait to be discovered by the team when they return with sonar equipment. I fully expect the team to return as planned and find something other than small magnetic spherules.
I also suspect subsequent analysis of the materials the team did acquire will support the hypothesis that IM1 was interstellar in origin and its materials are inconsistent with any naturally occurring iron alloy. They may also find a lack of specific isotopes which would suggest the material belongs to a non-local object which had been traveling for thousands/millions of years prior to slamming into Earth.
They might also find evidence of an unusual abundance of other rare minerals which, on Earth, are commonly used in semi-conductor and other electronics production. None of this will conclusively prove IM1 was artificial nor of extraterrestrial technological origin.
The disinformation operation will rage on in congress and the media. We might see another whistleblower or two but we won’t ever see any convincing evidence. We might see some more grainy IR or night-vision videos but nothing conclusive. We won’t see any crafts, alien bodies or gadgets. Disclosure of “non-human intelligence” will always be just a few weeks away. That is, unless someone finds something at IM1’s crash site. That’s when I anticipate a brief detour in the narrative.
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