Harvard University’s Galileo Project announces a generous $575,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. This grant will support the Galileo Project’s efforts to establish a third observatory station, located in Allegheny or Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania.
The Galileo Project is an international scientific research project to systematically search for extraterrestrial intelligence or technology on and near Earth and to identify the nature of anomalous unidentified flying objects/unidentified aerial phenomena (UFOs/UAP).
The grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will cover instrumentation costs essential to the installation of the new observatory, and will provide critical support to researchers in the field to manage and operate the new facility.
“We are extremely grateful to the Richard King Mellon Foundation for their generous support,” said Dr. Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. professor of science at Harvard University and principal investigator of the Galileo Project.
“This significant investment will enable the Galileo project to expand our capacity to observe unexplained aerial phenomena in our own skies.”
The Richard King Mellon Foundation is committed to advancing the health and vitality of the Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania region by investing in transformative initiatives across sectors including science, education and community development.
Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and longtime research affiliate of the Galileo project, was instrumental in administering this grant.
“It is exciting and deeply gratifying to see the Richard King Mellon Foundation continue to support groundbreaking science here in Western Pennsylvania,” said Mellon.
“I hope this will spark the imagination of our region’s youth and help solve what NASA itself calls ‘one of the great mysteries of all time’.”
With support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Galileo Project looks forward to making significant progress in its mission to explore the cosmos in its own backyard and deepen humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe.
