American-Israeli Scientist Discovers 10 Tiny Spheres with Unusual Composition and Speed in the Area Where a Meteorite Fell in 2014.
Astronomer Avi Loeb from Harvard University believes he may have found evidence of extraterrestrial technology from the IM1 meteorite that fell off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014, as reported by Business Insider on July 8.
Scientist Avi Loeb believes that the tiny spheres may be extraterrestrial technology. (Photo: Avi Loeb).
Loeb’s team collaborated with authorities to establish a 10km area where the meteorite could have landed. They then used the Silver Star vessel to search this region. Experts employed magnets to scan the seabed and discovered 10 peculiar spherical objects that Loeb believes could be technology from extraterrestrial beings. The U.S. Space Command indicated that these fragments almost certainly originated from another star system.
Analysis of the composition revealed that the spheres consist of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, 2% titanium, along with small amounts of other elements. They measure less than 1 mm in size. “When observed under a microscope, they look very different from the surrounding material. They are colored yellow, blue, brown, and some resemble miniature models of Earth,” Loeb stated.
“We calculated their speed outside the Solar System, reaching up to 60 km per second. They are composed of materials tougher than iron meteorites and move faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the Sun. This suggests that they could be spacecraft belonging to another civilization or some technological device,” he added.
Loeb compared this situation to the Voyager spacecraft, a NASA duo launched in 1977 that is still wandering through space today. He envisions that when Voyager collides with a distant planet in a billion years, it will also plummet like a meteorite.
“It will take us tens of thousands of years to escape the Solar System and reach another star with current spacecraft technology. This mass of material could have taken that long to get to us,” Loeb remarked.
Loeb is often referred to as the “Harvard alien hunter.” He is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and leads the Galileo Project, an initiative focused on seeking evidence of extraterrestrial life and their technology. He has frequently suggested that ‘Oumuamua’ – the first interstellar object discovered to “visit” the Solar System – could be an example of extraterrestrial technology.
