Hoskinson Joins UFO Expedition

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, is presently searching for a UFO or other type of spacecraft that crashed near the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.

The inquiry is part of the Galileo Project, for which Hoskinson provided $1.5 million in March.

The initiative operates an expedition led by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his student Amir Siraj, who in 2014 identified a “meteor of interstellar origin” that collided with Earth.

Notably, the interstellar origin of the object has been confirmed by the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Galileo crew may have already discovered a few of its fragments.

In a tweet dated June 16, Hoskinson confirmed he is present with the expedition team and noted that so far, they have discovered strange wire fragments and debris that may be from the crash.

“There’s plenty of ground to cover, and we haven’t even broken out the sluice sled yet,” he stated.

In a blog post published on the same day, Loeb stated, “Gladly, we already have one anomaly: a manganese-platinum wire with an abundance pattern that differs from common commercial products.”

However, it appears too early to corroborate whether the fragments belong to an “interstellar object from our cosmic neighborhood,” as Loeb hopes.

“Most importantly, I want to know if another civilization has technologically manufactured it,” he wrote in a June 15 blog post.

This is not the first time Hoskinson has invested in a peculiar endeavor.

In March 2022, the founder of Cardano participated in a $75 million financing round for Colossal, a Texas-based bioscience startup that aims to resurrect wooly mammoths and other extinct species.