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Hardware, sensor systems, and signal-processing pipelines built to detect, track, and characterise UAP — including the Galileo Project observatory stack and adjacent radar, infrared, acoustic, and EM-signature work.

15 papers · sorted newest first

  1. Galileo Project Observatory Class System Architecture

    arXiv (astro-ph.IM preprint) · 2025

    Bridgham et al.

    The reference architecture for Galileo's distributed observatory class: sensors, software, calibration, and data management for replicable UAP-grade aerial observation.

  2. Domine et al.

    Commissioning paper for Galileo's all-sky infrared imaging array. Documents detection efficiency for known traffic and establishes the baseline against which anomalous objects are scored.

  3. A Civilian Astronomer's Guide to UAP Research

    arXiv (astro-ph preprint) · 2024

    Lawrence et al.

    Practical methodology guide for amateur and citizen astronomers contributing UAP observations — instrumentation, logging discipline, and chain-of-custody for evidence.

  4. Overview of the Galileo Project

    Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · 2023

    Loeb et al.

    Founding overview of Harvard's Galileo Project: a privately-funded multimodal observatory programme to record, classify, and disambiguate aerial objects of unknown provenance.

  5. Watters et al.

    The Galileo observatory's multi-sensor approach (optical, infrared, radio, acoustic, magnetometer) and how cross-modal coincidence drives anomaly classification.

  6. Multi-Band Acoustic Monitoring of Aerial Signatures

    Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · 2023

    Mead et al.

    The Galileo Project's acoustic-monitoring stack: microphone arrays, band coverage, and the signal-processing pipeline used to associate sound signatures with optical/IR detections.

  7. Randall et al.

    Design of a passive multistatic radar receiver network for low-cost UAP-grade tracking. Uses ambient illuminators rather than active transmitters.

  8. A Hardware and Software Platform for Aerial Object Localization

    Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · 2023

    Szenher et al.

    Reference implementation of the Galileo localisation stack: hardware-software co-design for real-time aerial-object position estimates from multimodal sensors.

  9. Integrated Computing Platform for Detection and Tracking of UAP

    Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · 2023

    Cloete et al.

    The Galileo Project's integrated compute and storage architecture for ingesting, processing, and archiving multimodal sensor streams in near-real-time.

  10. Detection of Moving Objects in Earth Observation Satellite Images

    Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · 2023

    Keto et al.

    Methodology for extracting transient and moving objects from Earth-observation satellite imagery — relevant to retrospective UAP detection in archival passes.

  11. Reali

    Top-level systems-engineering study of constraints on building EM-signature-optimised UAP detectors — antenna design, noise floor, and survey strategy.

  12. Kayal et al.

    Status of the Würzburg UAP research group, one of the few European university programmes investigating UAP. Includes their sensor-platform plans.

  13. AIAA UAP Integration & Outreach Committee

    Reference UAP white paper from the AIAA's UAP Integration and Outreach Committee. Defines a shared detection-and-characterisation framework for aerospace researchers.

  14. Szydagis et al.

    First field-expedition results from the academic-led UAPx instrumentation programme. Documents the sensor stack, deployment, and preliminary findings.

  15. Snow et al.

    Operational recommendations for civil-aviation UAP data: reporting taxonomy, sensor capture standards, ATC integration, and analyst pipelines.

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