A HARVARD professor has claimed that mysterious pellets pulled from the ocean actually originated from outside our Solar System.
That would make them the first alien objects to be found on Earth.
Avi LoebProfessor Avi Loeb led the research team that retrieved the pellets from the ocean[/caption]
AVI Loeb/Medium.comAround 700 of the tiny round objects have been found[/caption]
Avi LoebThe mission cost $1.5million and involved pulling fragments from the Pacific Ocean[/caption]
Harvard physicist Professor Avi Loeb and his team retrieved the material from the Pacific Ocean.
They’re said to have come from an object which crashed into the seabed in 2014.
It’s thought this was a meteor-like object that fell into the ocean just coast of Papua New Guinea.
Loeb has not ruled out that it was actually an alien craft falling to Earth.
The expert has now revealed that early analysis of the fragments suggests they come from interstellar space.
Around 700 tiny metal-like spheres have been collected.
They’re said to be different from any metal we have on Earth.
Loeb wrote a piece about the discovery for Medium.
He said: “Wonderful news! For the first time in history, scientists analyzed materials from a meter-size object that originated from outside the solar system.
“The object lit up the sky over the Pacific Ocean nearly a decade ago and its bright fireball was tracked by US government satellites.”
Adding: “Irrespective of the interpretation, this is a historic discovery because it represents the first time that scientists analyze materials from a large object that arrived to Earth from outside the solar system.”
Loeb’s expedition is called the Galileo Project.
His team has analyzed 57 of the round objects from the crash site so far.
This isn’t the first time Loeb has been vocal about interstellar objects and potential alien life.
Loeb proposes in an essay for Scientific American that there could be objects in our Solar System that are like a “message in a bottle” from aliens.
The scientist thinks space agencies should be launching space probes to “search for technological civilizations across interstellar distances”.