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Dr. Avi Loeb:

“A year ago, two very distinguished visitors came to the front door of my home... This was Jim Dolan who owns the Madison Square Garden and also the Sphere, and Jane Rosenthal the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, and they made me an offer that I cannot refuse.

They said would you be able to put a Galileo Project observatory, I'm leading the Galileo Project to look for unusual objects around the earth, and they said could you build an observatory on top of the Sphere, because you know Jim Dolan really is interested in science and especially in finding whether there is some alien intelligence out there. And I said of course I will be delighted.

So that was September 2024 one year after the sphere was opened… I was there just a few months ago with my research team. We went all the way to the top and installed… an array of infrared cameras that monitors the entire sky above Vegas at all times. It's like a freckle on top of the Sphere.

We also put an array of visible light cameras there and it's operating. And we hope to see a few million objects over the sky of Vegas and decide whether any of them has a performance that deviates from the envelope of human-made technologies.

I see that also as an opportunity to communicate to the public the excitement about science. That's what Jim Dolan and Jane Rosenthal really wanted to deliver. And I'm hoping that we will find something really anomalous.”