Professor Avi Loeb from Harvard University believes he may have found evidence of extraterrestrial life. He and his team recently analyzed fragments from a meteor that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014.
According to CBS News, the materials were brought back to Harvard for examination. The U.S. Space Command has determined with a high degree of certainty that the meteor originated from another solar system, with a 99.999% confidence level. The government provided Loeb with a designated area of approximately 10 kilometers where the meteor may have landed.
Loeb explained that the government detected the fireball caused by the meteor’s entry into Earth’s atmosphere, which helped pinpoint its general location. The team calculated the distance of the fireball based on the time delay between the arrival of the blast wave, the explosion sound, and the light.
As per USA Today, the fragments discovered by the team are believed to be from a meteorite the size of a basketball that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere and the western Pacific Ocean in 2014.
Loeb noted that the meteor’s origin is from outside our solar system, and it traveled at a speed faster than most stars near the sun. The team found ten distinct metallic marbles, referred to as spherules, which display unique colors such as gold, blue, and brown. Some of them even resemble miniatures of the Earth when viewed under a microscope.
