10-Month Study With Very Fancy Equipment Finds Mysterious Orbs, Calling Them "Spheroids"

Today I became aware of a scientific paper describing a 10-month investigation into UAP, which the paper defines as "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena." The paper is by John Joseph Tedesco Gerald and Thomas Tedesco and is entitled "Eye on the Sky: A UAP Research and Field Study off New York’s Long Island Coast." You can read the paper here. Strangely in the abstract of the paper, the authors make no mention of finding anything interesting; but in the text of the paper they tell us about finding an abundance of mysterious orbs, which they call "spheroids." We read this in the abstract:

"A ten-month field research study was meticulously conducted at Robert Moses State Park (RMSP) on the south shore of Long Island, NY. The objective was to determine if aerial phenomena of an unknown nature exist over a coastal location and to characterize their properties and behaviors." 

The two-men turned a recreational vehicle (RV) into a kind of very fancy mobile scientific investigation vehicle, equipping it with all kinds of fancy hi-tech equipment, and calling the vehicle the Nightcrawler.  The two investigators are associated with the "Galileo Project" organized by Harvard scientist Avi Loeb, and we may presume they got some of the money Loeb has raised for that project. 

We read this about observation of mysterious orbs:

"Since July of 2022, we observed a light phenomenon that most often presented itself as a spheroid under a luminous state, while under decreased luminosity, it seemed to display a polyhedral appearance morphologically. Fewer sightings appeared as ovaloid and cylindroid. The spheroids have been consistent and present from July 7, 2022, to March 30, 2023. These observations displayed unusual flight characteristics, extreme velocities, and long periods of inactivity, appearing stationary. These objects also displayed unusual physical characteristics: fluctuating states of albedo, glinting, rotation, variations in spectral range, and change of state from luminous to illuminous (Teachoo, 2023) [7]. This light phenomenon, at times, demonstrated swarm-like behavior that did not fit a pattern of regular air traffic and could not be verified by Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data (FCC, 2023) [8]."

We read this:

"We modified our camera system to extend the IR spectral range by removing the Infrared (IR) cut filter on our fixed array while incorporating additional portable hyperspectral devices. This allowed us to capture an exotic phenomenon of light in the form of spheroids, which displayed an ambiguous, elusive, and transitory nature. Multiple unidentified objects detected throughout the study are detailed. Object spectral range beyond that of visible light is characteristic of the observed phenomena; that is, observance of the phenomena predominantly lies outside the spectral range of human EM perception." 

We read lots of boring details about the methods used and the equipment used, which includes a discussion of how an aircraft was identified in some photo of an aircraft.  We read this:

"The unknown objects appear to be elusive, and they frequently remain just outside of the spectral range of human sensory perception. They are primarily seen within the infrared bandwidth and may occasionally be observed in the visible spectrum when their albedo/luminosity is sufficiently intense to be seen. We have observed a barely perceivable low Lux to high Lux light output from such objects. On rare occasions when these objects and luminosities were perceptible in the visible spectrum, they assumed variations in color frequency, such as white, blue (occasionally iridescent), orange, and red. The unknown objects have displayed quantifiable features so that we could assign some tentative taxonomic and morphometric details for referencing the differing forms, as discussed in the body of the paper (such as four to five general variations in shape geometries, and consistencies in the relative size of 1.5 meters to 3.0 meters in diameter). Their behaviors were transitory, random, indifferent, and purposeless at times, and there were moments when these objects demonstrated an awareness of us and some level of organization, intelligence, and even interaction. There were instances where we observed more bizarre features, such as luminous objects suddenly appearing and rising from or out of the ground, where none had been seen previously. Occasionally, we would see them sitting on the ocean surface or passing beneath it without disturbing that medium and any sounds."

The paper includes no photographs or images documenting the claim that mysterious spheroids were observed. This is a severe deficiency of the paper. You won't have much luck in getting people to pay attention to claims of seeing mysterious orbs unless you have photographs to back up your claims. 

In a paper such as this there is a kind of "historical amnesia" that is striking. Photos and reports of mysterious orbs in the sky have abundantly occurred for many years, often with the same colors of blue and orange mentioned above. Photos of such orbs have appeared abundantly on sites like this one, and in published articles and books. For example, using the link here you can see 14 photos I took of mysterious blue orbs in the sky on clear nights without precipitation. And here is a 2013 article on mysterious orbs by a physics PhD. But our authors make no mention of such observations, and none of their 30+references at the end of such a paper refer to such observations.

 It's the same kind of "historical amnesia" shown in the paper "The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-Based Observatories," co-authored by Avi Loeb, the two Tedesco authors of the "Eye on the Sky" paper,  and many other authors. That paper makes the incorrect statement that there have been "few instrument-based studies" of UAP.  What we must always remember is that mainstream scientists tend to be very poor scholars of previous investigations of the paranormal, and  generalizations they make about such investigations are often inaccurate.  One of the authors of that paper has been notably assertive in denigrating and minimizing all previous studies of unidentified aerial phenomena, rather as if he were thinking very egotistically "work on this topic starts with me," a ridiculous attitude for a "Johnny-come-lately" like him to be taking.  

Below is one of the countless photos of mysterious blue sky orbs I have taken, a photo I took in 2019. 

A great deal of work has already been done in the investigation of mysterious orbs, and you can find some of that work at this site and by using the links here, here and here. 100+ posts referring to naked-eye observations of mysterious orbs can be read here. A look at UFO databases having many decades of observations will show that a large fraction of reported UFOs are reported to have shapes described as orbs, circles or spheres. People writing a scientific paper referring to mysterious orbs should refer to such work and data, and should not speak as if they were the first people to observe a type of anomaly that has already been abundantly observed.  Also, anyone writing such a paper should realize that their paper will be unlikely to attract wide attention unless it includes photographs of anomalies reported. 

On the page here, we have a podcast video with John Joseph Tedesco Gerald and Thomas Tedesco, and in that video they report results like those reported in their paper discussed above.  The main difference is that they keep using the word "orbs" more than using the word "spheroids" to describe what they observed.  Around the 32:00 mark in the video, they mention orb patterns, a topic I am familiar with.