00:00Do you think President Trump was right to go down this sort of transparency route?
00:04Do you think these files should have been released?
00:06I think so. I think there was resistance to release them because it shows the vulnerability
00:11of the defense system in the U.S. if these are made by adversarial nations. Also, some of the
00:17data was collected by classified sensors and you don't want to expose the abilities of those
00:24sensors to adversarial nations. But on top of that, there is, of course, the psychological tendency
00:32of bureaucrats, administrators within government to hide the fact that they're not doing their job.
00:38And they can do that by classifying documents and data. You know, there is a defense budget in 2026
00:47of close to a trillion dollars, and yet they are unable to identify some objects in the sky.
00:52You know, that's embarrassing, and that's a reason for them to keep it under wraps.
00:56And I do think that exposing that failure to identify objects is important because it will
01:03bring us to a better place. At the very least, it brings this subject of unusual objects to the
01:08forefront of the public discourse and the scientific mainstream. But my hope is, you know, if there is
01:16something that came from outside of this earth, it will be unraveled in this process. And the best we can
01:22do is collect new data rather than obsess with past reports, because we can't go back in time and check
01:29exactly the circumstances, get better data. The best approach is to use the best available sensors we have
01:37right now and look at the sky. And we don't need to wait for the government to tell us what's
01:42in the sky.
01:43That's the approach that I'm taking with the Galileo project that I'm leading
01:47at Harvard University. We built three observatories. We monitor the entire sky at all times in these
01:53three locations. We collect data on millions of objects. And frankly, any object that is human-made
01:59is boring as far as I'm concerned. We're looking for outliers that move outside the performance envelope
02:07of human-made technologies.
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