New data analysis splashes cold water on the theory that fragments recovered from the Pacific are remnants of an object that came from outside the solar system.
Astronomer Avi Loeb holds a tube containing fragments recovered from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he suspects are from an interstellar meteor. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb scoured the Pacific seafloor last summer in search for debris from a meteor that had exploded in a fireball on Jan. 8, 2014. Loeb organized the two-week expedition because he thought the meteor might be something other than a random rock from space.
speculating that it might have an artificial origin — and could be a “light sail” engineered by an alien civilization. ManyGalileo Project But he has faced headwinds from many mainstream scientists, who generally adhere to the philosophy that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.among scientists these days even if they are a hot topic in congressional hearings and popular culture. On Friday, the Department of Defense released a lengthy report declaring there isUFOs are real, and the government is aware. But that doesn't mean we know what they are and that they are signs of alien technology.
A draft paper by Fernando and his colleagues, not yet peer reviewed or published in a journal, concludes that the material recovered from the seafloor is “almost certainly unrelated” to the meteor.
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