Whether open Hardware standards from CERN, which hosts the
Large, Hadron Collider or The Institute of Loris, lagoons
whatever fourtner on Research Center, which contribute to and
runs largely on open source. But more recently, open source
models have benefited citizens initiatives to which our, once
which were once regulated to The Fringe by making tooling
accessible to The Wider population at a relatively low
cost. Well, if you can't code, you're
not going to be able to change this.
So this still offers some hope. Hope that this thing could be
kind of a have a neutral stance on what we're looking for.
Anytime you give more opportunities to discover the
Gentoo, discover to the general population, the more option you
have for Innovation and growth Sarah, pulling field, CTO of
Open Source, company has Shi Corp told motherboard at the
recent cube van event opening up opening that up to Open Source
Hardware or software or going down.
The AI route is powerful for aggregating and managing all of
that data and it goes on Rambles on quite a bit.
The problem I have with this is that those are for-profit
companies and they're trying to tell you that there is no
gatekeeper, that's simply not true.
There's always a gatekeeper with these things that doesn't mean
though that we couldn't use this tool for our benefit.
It says, three Americans started Sky have three years ago.
I was a number, I was number five and the team.
And then And then two years ago, the American society shut it
down. Hop says, the reason why they
shut it down, was very dubious to me.
They didn't tell us Europeans anything about what was going
down. It was fishy.
Well, isn't that funny the paragraph before that and says,
obviously a Grassroots The article continues, it says,
obviously a Grassroots surveillance Network distributed
across the globe, could prove bothersome for Nations and
militaries that are used to operating in relative, secrecy.
According to Hoff the founders of the predecessors project Sky
Hub. Had ties to us intelligence and
decided to wind it down with no explanation.
Ho boy, you know, sad it takes a European to tell us the truth
about what's going on in America.
So, So three Americans come up with this idea, but they've got
ties to the intelligence community.
And this is what I get. I get smashed all the time on
Twitter about this about complaining, about certain
people who have ties to the intelligence Community going on
places like the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel and on
internet programs and talking about UFO, sightings that
they've had, and they're going to release this and they're
going to release that. And you know, I have questions
about that. And sometimes people tell me,
oh, shame on you, you shouldn't question, these people, they're
above questioning, but here we go.
This fella says, well, they tried to start the sky have
project in America but it got shot down without explanation.
Three Americans started Sky have three years ago.
I was number five, the team and then two years ago, the
Americans decided to shut it down.
Hop says, the reason why they shut it down, was very dubious
to me. They didn't tell us your
opinions anything about what was going on.
It was free, she imagined that ha I've decided to relocate to
Europe and decentralized the whole project you're protected.
Similarly, the coal agalya is Distributing data.
It appeared a way to build a redundancy and is exploring more
cryptographically secure infrastructure liked or the
invisible energetic, internet project or ipfs.
I would just remind you that tour is I'm call came from the
US Navy. Just a thought it's really hard
to get rid of it, once it is deployed and distributed to the
world. Gal yet said whether these
efforts find anything Truly unusual or not is anyone's guess
but it's Sky 360 is successful. Perhaps will no longer simply
want to believe. We'll be able to see for
ourselves. Well isn't that a novel concept?
I love the idea of this if they can make it work where you're
actually talking about. People out there putting these
putting these cameras up in your backyard or out in the
countryside. Somewhere filming these nights
guys, filming these days guys. The only, the only problem I
have with it is that you have ai sorting and carry that, curating
the data. If they're able somehow to put
these into compact files and just put them anywhere on the
internet, that people can go through and sort the data
themselves where they have access to the entire 24/7 live
cams. Now, that would be cool if that
happens. It's just a matter of time
before. One of these UFOs shows up a
clear as day, and then we can listen. to the Deep markers tell
us how we were fooled again until next time, this is UFO
warning over now Hello and welcome to the program.
You have a warning in this episode.
We're talking about a project called Sky 360 that's correct a
project called Sky 360. Now this article comes to us
from Vice. It's written by Tamlin Maggie's
and the title says UFO Hunters built an open-source AI system
to scan the skies. Looks like maybe finally there's
something being done with AI that will be useful to us.
It says the sky 360 project. Is building a worldwide network
of automated cameras to keep, watch for strange.
Aerial phenomena, because on it, says last year, the Pentagon
began releasing regular reports on UFO, sightings after the u.s.
government established an office dedicated to tracking the area
anomalies, which it calls unidentified aerial.
Phenomena, are you a piece for the first time?
But ever since the Roswell, Flying Saucer crash of 1947
officials have frustrated UFO veterans.
Often dismissing, the mysterious object is swamp gas water
balloons or more recently Sky trash.
I need even add in their drones it says now frustrated with a
lack of transparency and Trust around official accounts of UFO
phenomena, a team of developers has decided to take matters into
their own hands with an open-source citizen science
project called Sky 360 which aims to blanket the Earth and
affordable monitoring stations. Is to watch the skies 24/7 and
plans to use Ai and machine learning to spot Anonymous
Behavior. Now I just had a thought they
say they're going to monitor the skies 24/7.
One that be cool if we could watch the Kim trailing happen in
real time. I mean just imagine you've got
this tracking system where this camera is viewing the sky you
know under 360-degree You, you can actually have it recorded on
their of these planes as they almost seems, like, sometimes
they go in teams across the sky spreading this gray Haze, that
would be interesting. And then we could use flight
radar to go back and look at the time that these things went
through and find out. If these are passenger, plane
say where they're just using a certain kind of fuel.
It does this or if these are actually military craft, this
thing could really have a dual purpose.
Also, of course. It would be very handy and
photographing any variety of UFOs that might show up and it
would allow people with cameras located at different people,
places to, you know, actually triangulate the location of the
sing and also work as a kind of a multiple camera eyewitness on,
because could really turn into something.
It says interest in UFOs has waxed and waned over the years,
but with the pentagon's recent declassification of the Tic Tac
videos in 2020. An unprecedented knowledge meant
Mysterious aerial phenomena from official sources their frenzy as
well. And truly the frenzy was well
and truly reignited confirmation of inexplicable flying Tic Tacs
or not, the over arching air of secrecy has never really gone
away. Although the Director of
National Intelligence now. Discloses UAP sightings many of
those remain unsolved in the US. Navy has said that releasing
more videos would be a national security risk.
Well clearly you're not being told what's going on.
I mean, they won't even show you the pictures of the shoot-down,
send Alaska, the Yukon Lake Huron or North Carolina.
It says, unlike earlier 20th century efforts, such as
inventors proposing, geomagnetic, detectors to
discover nearby UFOs, or more recent software, like the
short-lived UFO, ID project Sky 360 hopes that it can establish
a network of autonomously operating Surveillance units to
gather real-time data of our skies citizen-led UFO,
researchers not new organizations.
Like, mufon founded in 1969, have long investigated.
Sightings while amateur groups like The American Flying Saucer
investigating Committee of Columbus, even ran a statistical
analysis on sightings in the 1960s.
Finding that most of them happened on Wednesdays, that's
interesting. However, Sky 360 believes that
the level of interest and the technology Have now both reached
an inflection point where citizen researchers can actually
generate large scale actionable data for analysis on their own.
Imagine this is the computing power.
I mean, just think about this 2009, our 2008 first smartphone
introduced, and here we are 14 years later.
Look at how the look at how the technology is expanded.
Especially with this AI, it could be used for more than just
You know, second-rate chat boxes.
I mean, this stuff can be used for a lot of things in.
This could be an example of one of the good things that a I can
do. I mean, you could, you could
train these cameras to track moving objects, like I said, you
could train them to spot Chemtrails.
You wouldn't even have to be part of this Sky 360 project, I
suppose, if you had why these cameras, you could set it up in
your own yard, even maybe it says, however Sky 360 believes
that the level of Trust and the technology of how both reached
have both reached an inflection point where citizen researchers
can actually generate large scale actual data for analysis
all on their own. It says, there's distressed
about how governments managed to be sightings and that's why the
idea of a citizen science formation to take this into our
own hands and to create our own information about it is
necessary. Sky 360 coach here at Richard, G
hop told motherboard. Most data is from military use
sensors like the National reconnaissance office.
They have a lot of data but they would never make it public.
Nor would they give it to universities for analysis?
Why wouldn't they everything has to be a secret with these guys?
Doesn't it it says the sky 360 stations consists of an all-sky
cam with a wide-angle fisheye lens and a pan tilt.
Focus camera with the fisheye camera registering all movement
underlying software performs an Rough analysis of these events
and decides whether to activate other sensors.
And if so, the pan tilt focus camera Zooms in on the object
tracks it and further, analyzes it, now, this is where I can see
a little problematic because we're using software to control
this camera, and they could very easily program.
This thing not to follow the Kim training program.
It says, according to your developer might gallion, the
software is currently based on a computer vision background,
subtraction algorithm that determines Detects any Motion in
the frame compared to previous frames captured.
Anything that moves is then tracked as long as possible and
then automatically classified. The diet idea is that the more
data these monitoring stations acquire, the better, the
classification will be. There are a combination of AI
models under the hood. And the system is built, using
the open-source tensor for machine learning platform.
So it can be deployed on almost any computer.
Next, the all volunteer team wants to create a single
algorithm capable of detection, tracking and classification.
All-in-one, all the hardware components from the camera to
passive radar and temperature gauges can be bought cheaply and
off-the-shelf worldwide with the ultimate goal of finding the
most effective combinations for the lowest price schematics
Blueprints and suggested. Equipment are all available on
Sky, 360 site and interested parties are encouraged to join
the Project's Discord server. There are currently 23 We
stations set up across the world from the u.s.a. to Canada to
more remote regions like the Azores in the middle of the
Atlantic. While the group while groups
like seti. Look for signals of alien
intelligence, for their way that our planet, very few are
searching for science within our atmosphere helps as those that
are looking closer to home such as when the main astronomical
Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences and
ukrainians, have they spotted UFOs over care fault.
Kiev all the time, tend to be isolated and working alone.
What's Missing suggest Hafiz generating data at a scale and
joining it all together. Well this sounds good.
You've got you know right now 20 this camera setup filming stuff
all the time but the problem I have with this is this AI
program that's curating the data.
And we've seen the problem with AI is that a I didn't just grow
spontaneously on its own. Would you just walk up one day
and log on to the computer and there's chat GPT sitting in the
window at having self manifested.
Okay, that program was created over a number of years.
By team of programmers. Those programmers basically gave
that program its personality as they say, garbage in garbage
out. So, the thing that I can that
concerns me about this project 360 is that who wrote the
program and more than likely things, like Kim trailing, which
is a major issue if you are not so blind that you cannot look up
in the sky and watch these things spring out, Greg garbage
across our skies all day. I don't know where they doing.
Bill Gates has said that he would like to cool the planet.
I mean, he's on record saying that is it that?
Or is it just a byproduct of the fuel?
We don't know, but you should be able to program this compute.
This, this AI for things that you're looking for.
So the problem that I have with this program right now is that
there are curating and sorting all the data and there will be
tons and tons and tons of data. But as long as AI is sorting
that if it's been programmed to ignore Kim trailing Say, or if
it's been can, if it's been programmed to ignore a giant
Mothership, then you're never going to see it unless you go
back and watch eight hours of videotape from your camera and
your recording it. So, that's problem.
We're still talking about a centralized area, a centralized
Authority, in this case, AI. That's sorting and curating this
stuff, and we don't know how that program is written.
Okay, it didn't self manifest, somebody created it.
Instead open source, software source, code is available free
to everyone. Not only forms the backbone of
the internet itself, but has long been essential to huge
institutions in the Science World.
Well, if you can't code, you're not going to be able to change
this. So this still offers some hope
that this thing could be kind of have a neutral stance on what
we're looking for. Anytime you give more
opportunities to discover the Gentoo, discover to the general
population, the more option you have for Innovation and growth
syrup Poland. Old CTO of open-source company
has Shi Corp, told motherboard at the recent tubecon event
opening up opening that up to Open Source Hardware or software
or going down. The AI route is powerful for
aggregating and managing all of that data and it goes on and
Rambles on quite a bit. The problem I have with this is
that those are for-profit companies and they're trying to
tell you that there is no Gate Keeper.
That's simply not true. There's always a gatekeeper with
these things that doesn't mean though that we couldn't use this
tool for our benefit. It says, three Americans started
Sky have three years ago. I was a number, I was number
five and the team. And then the article continues,
it says, obviously a Grassroots surveillance Network distributed
across the globe, could prove bothersome for Nations and
militaries that are used to operating in relative, secrecy.
According to Hoff the founders of the predecessors project Sky
Hub. Had ties to us intelligence and
decided to Wind it down with no explanation.
Ho boy, you know, sad it takes a European to tell us the truth
about what's going on in America.
So three Americans came up with this idea, but they've got ties
to the intelligence community. And this is what I get.
I get smashed all the time on Twitter about this about
complaining, about certain people who have ties to the
intelligence Community going on places like the History Channel
and the Discovery Channel and on.
Internet programs and talking about UFO, sightings that
they've had, and they're going to release this, and they're
going to release that. And, you know, I have questions
about that and sometimes people tell me, oh, shame on you, you
shouldn't question, these people, they're above
questioning, but here we go. This fella says, well, they
tried to start the sky have project in America but it got
shot down without explanation. Three Americans started Sky have
three years ago. I was number five, the team and
then two years ago, the Americans decided to shut it
down. Up says, the reason why they
shut it down was very dubious to me.
They didn't tell us your opinions anything about what was
going on. It was free.
She imagined that Hoff decided to relocate to Europe and
decentralized the whole project you're protected.
Similarly, the coal agalya is Distributing the data.
It appears a way to build a redundancy and is exploring more
cryptographically. Secure infrastructure liked or
the invisible integer, internet project or ipfs.
I would just remind you that tour is I'm call came from the
US Navy. Just a thought it's really hard
to get rid of it. Once it is deployed and
distributed to the world. Gal yet said whether these
efforts find anything truly unusual or not is anyone's guess
but it's Sky 360 is successful. Perhaps will no longer simply
want to believe. We'll be able to see for
ourselves. Well, isn't that a novel
concept? I love the idea of this if they
can make it work where you're actually talking about.
People out there putting these putting these cameras up in your
backyard or out in the countryside.
Somewhere filming these nights, guys.
Filming these days, guys. And the only, the only problem I
have with it is that you have a, i sorting accurately that
curating the data. If they're able somehow to put
these into compact files and just put them anywhere on the
internet, that people can go through and sort the data
themselves where they have access to the entire 24/7.
Live cams. Now, that would be cool if that
happens. It's just a matter of time
before. One of these UFOs shows up a
clear as day, and then we can listen to the debunkers.
Tell us how we were fooled again until next time, this is UFO
warning over now. Live cams.
Now, that would be cool if that happens.
It's just a matter of time before.
One of these UFOs shows up a clear as day, and then we can
listen to the debunkers. Tell us how we were fooled again
until next time, this is UFO warning over now.