Meteor fragments found on ocean floor may be ‘artificially made by another civilization,’ Harvard professor claims
A HARVARD scientist claims that meteor fragments found on the ocean floor could be from an alien civilization.
In 2014, researchers uncovered fragments of a meteor off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.
Several years later, Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, claimed that the fragments were not from our solar system.
In 2022, scientists confirmed Loeb’s theory that the fragments were from an interstellar meteor, now dubbed IM1.
But now, Loeb posits that the fragments are not from a meteor, but from an artificially made Voyager-like object.
The fragments comprise small magnetic spherules and could have come from a “watermelon”-sized alien-built object, Loeb told Boston Public Radio.
“It raises the possibility that it may have been a Voyager-like meteor, artificially made by another civilization,” Loeb told the station on Monday.
Voyagers 1 and 2 were a pair of probes sent to deep space by NASA in the 1970s.
Of course, Loab’s findings were met with skepticism, with some scientists claiming that the spherules were just coal ash.
However, Loeb has put out new findings that he says support his claims and shut down the coal ash theory.
“What we did is compare 55 elements from the periodic table in coal ash to those special spherules that we found,” he said.
“And it’s clearly very different,” he added.
When asked about how he deals with the criticism, Loeb said that his findings are “not based on opinions.”
“And, of course, if you’re not part of this scientific process and you are jealous of the attention that it gets, then you can raise a lot of criticism,” he added.
The next steps for Loeb consist of heading back to the Pacific Ocean to scour the ocean floor for more fragments.
He also implores other scientists looking for extraterrestrial life to focus their efforts closer to home.
“The best approach to figure it out is actually to do the scientific work of building observatories that look out and check what these objects are,” he told Boston Public Radio.
“And if they happen to be birds, or airplanes, or Chinese balloons, so be it.”