The Galileo Project has reported a successful field test of one of the measurements most often missing from public UAP videos: distance. In an update published July 20, project director Avi Loeb described how three infrared observatories around Las Vegas viewed the same airborne object from separated positions, allowing researchers to calculate its range by triangulation.
The instruments, named sphere, hideout and wildhorse, form a triangle with sides of about 10.2, 10.1 and 2.0 kilometers. Loeb said project postdoctoral researcher Regina Sarmiento analyzed a target detected on May 30. The combined views placed it roughly 20 to 30 kilometers from the stations, with a reported uncertainty of only a few hundred meters.
The object was not left unidentified. Its trajectory and timing matched an aircraft broadcasting Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data. Comparing the image-based distance with that independent ADS-B track showed agreement to a fraction of a percent, according to Loeb. That makes the event a calibration case: a known aircraft used to test whether the network can recover distance accurately.
Distance is crucial because angular motion alone cannot determine an object's true speed, size or altitude. A nearby insect and a distant aircraft can cross a camera's field in superficially similar ways. This result does not validate extraordinary UAP claims, but it demonstrates a method for rejecting ordinary traffic and for reserving deeper analysis for observations that remain unexplained after range and flight-data checks.