By Jack Peat
A Harvard professor says the remains could be proof of an advanced alien civilisation.
Debris pulled from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean could be from an unidentified space object that crashed to Earth, a Harvard professor believes.
Avi Loeb and his team have revealed the results of a recent expedition to Papua New Guinea, claiming they may have unearthed proof of advanced alien civilisation.
Fifty microscopic particle spherules have been extracted from the ocean that Loeb says are from a “runaway fireball” that exploded in the Earth’s lower atmosphere before falling into the ocean in 2014.
Labelled IM1, the object is “actually tougher and has material strength that is higher than all the space rocks that were cut along by NASA,” the professor told Fox News while being interviewed from the expedition boat.
“That makes it quite unusual,” he added.
“Why would the first object from outside the solar system be tougher than iron meteorites and move faster than all the stars in the vicinity of the sun.
“Of course, a possibility is that it’s artificial, it’s a space craft that has propulsion. That may explain why the material is so strong.”
The researcher also told Fox News that the particles uncovered were “perfectly round.”
Once inspected under a microscope, Loeb said “the objects appear to look like a molten rain drops,” comparing them to blood droplets.
“This could be the first time humans put their hands on interstellar material,” he stated.
“This has never been done before. We never received a package at our doorstep from a cosmic neighbour.”
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