Harvard professor believes he has found fragments of alien technology

CAMBRIDGE – A Harvard professor believes he may have found bits of alien technology from a meteorite that landed in the waters off Papua New Guinea in 2014.

Avi Loeb and his team have just brought the materials to Harvard for analysis. The US Space Command can confirm with almost certainty, 99.999%, that it came from another solar system. The United States government gave Loeb a 10 km radius of where she could have landed.

“That’s where the fireball occurred, and the government detected it thanks to the Department of Defense. It’s a very large area the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down,” Loeb said, “We calculated the distance of the fireball based on the time lag between the arrival of the shock wave, the burst of the explosion, and the light that came quickly.”

Their calculations allowed them to map out a potential path of the meteor. Those calculations worked their way through the projected 10 km range that came from the US government. Loeb and his crew took a ship called the Silver Star. The ship made numerous passes along and around the projected path. The researchers combed the ocean floor by attaching a sled filled with magnets to their boat.

“We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very different from the background,” Loeb explained, “They have colors of gold, blue, brown and something that resembles a Earth miniature.

Their compositional analysis showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. They are submillimeter in size. The crew found 50 of them in total.

“It has a material strength that is harder than all the space rocks that have been seen before and cataloged by NASA,” added Loeb, “We calculated its speed outside the solar system. It was 60 km per second, which is faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the Sun. The fact that it was made of harder materials even than iron meteorites, and moved faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the Sun, suggested that could potentially be a spaceship from another civilization, or some technological gizmo.”

Compare the situation with any of the Voyager spacecraft launched by NASA.

“They will leave the solar system in 10,000 years. Imagine colliding with another distant planet a billion years from now. They would appear as a meteor of a faster-than-usual composition,” Loeb explained.

Research and analysis is just beginning at Harvard. Loeb is trying to understand if the spherules are artificial or natural. If they are natural, he will give researchers an idea of ​​what materials may exist outside of our solar system. If it is artificial, the questions really begin.

“It will take us tens of thousands of years to get out of our solar system with our current spacecraft to another star. This stuff took that long to get to us, but it’s here now,” smiled Loeb, “we just have to check our backyard for see if we have packets from an interstellar Amazon that take billions of years to travel.”

He still has more debris to investigate and hours of unseen footage from the camera attached to his sled. He thinks there’s a chance the spherules could be little breadcrumbs for a bigger find.

“They also help us identify any large pieces of the meteorite that we might find on a future expedition,” Loeb details, “We hope to find a large piece of this object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it’s a rock or gadget technology.”