Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is currently searching for a UFO — or some kind of space entity that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.
The search is part of the Galileo project, which received $1.5 million in funding from Hoskinson in March. The project is working on an expedition led by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his student Amir Siraj, who discovered an "interstellar meteor" that fell to Earth from outer space in 2014.
The object's interstellar origin has been confirmed by the US Department of Defense, and the Galileo team may have found several remnants of it.
In a tweet on June 16, Hoskinson confirmed that he is currently with the expedition and said they found strange wires and debris that may have come from the crash. "There's a lot of ground to cover and we haven't even opened the sluice gates yet," he said. In a blog post the same day, Loeb wrote: "Happily, we have discovered an anomaly: an abundance pattern that differs from that of the common commercially produced manganese-platinum line."
At this stage, however, it seems too early to confirm whether the fragments belong to some kind of "interstellar object from our cosmic neighborhood," as Loeb hopes. "Most importantly, I wonder if it was technically made by another civilization," he said in a June 15 blog post. This isn't the first time Hoskinson has thrown money at a wacky project.
In March 2022, the Cardano founders participated in a $75 million funding round for Colossal, a Texas-based bioscience startup that aims to resurrect woolly mammoths and other extinct species.
