A Harvard University astrophysicist claims to have made significant progress in the search for extraterrestrial life. Professor Avi Loeb thinks he may have discovered bits of extraterrestrial technology from a meteorite that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014.
According to CBS News, Loeb and his team have just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The US Space Command can confirm with almost 99.999% certainty that it is from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 kilometer (6.2 mi) radius of where he could land.
“That’s where the fireball happened and the government revealed it from the Department of Defense. It’s a very large area about the size of Boston, so we wanted to capture it,” Loeb said. “We estimated the distance of the fireball based on the time lag between the arrival of the shock wave, the rumble of the explosion, and the light that arrived quickly.
According to USA Today, the debris the team uncovered is believed to come from a basketball-sized meteorite that crashed into Earth’s atmosphere and into the western Pacific Ocean in 2014.
The meteor, which came from regions outside the solar system, was moving twice as fast as almost all stars near the Sun, Loeb said.
“We found ten spheres. They are almost perfect spheres or metal spheres. When you look at them under a microscope, they look very different from the background,” explained Loeb. “They have colors of gold, blue and brown, and some of them resemble a miniature Earth.”
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