Since the discovery of meteor in the Pacific Ocean, astrophysicist Avi Loeb from Harvard University became fully committed to reveal its true nature.
Harvard researcher Avi Loeb’s unwavering curiosity has led to some surprising findings regarding a peculiar object found in Pacific Ocean. Due to the object's outstanding velocity, twice faster than all the stars in our solar system, the scientists deduced its interstellar origin. Currently, extensive analysis is underway in renowned institutions, like Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, the Bruker Corporation, and the University of Technology in Papua New Guinea. Let's find out what we know so far.
On the last week, Loeb communicated to the media that preliminary examinations suggest "the tiny metal pieces might be alien artifacts, originating from beyond our solar system."
Still now, the researchers are yet to conclude if these metallic spheres are originally natural or artificial. Loeb believes that these retrieved samples are not similar to any known metal alloy. The metal is named as the "BeLaU" due to its Beryllium, Lanthanum, and Uranium content.
Loeb and his fellow researchers are planning to publish a scientific article describing their findings soon.
Have a look on this video of Loeb describing his findings.
Planetary scientist Humberto Campins also agreed with the sensational claims by Harvard physicist Professor Avi Loeb. He told: "'alien' material from interstellar space has been found on Earth for the first time ever. It's enough to be excited about. My hat's off to these people."
The University of Central Florida astronomer further said: "I think this was a meteorite that came from outside the solar system."
Although this object came to our atmosphere so many years ago, but, it remained undetected till 2019. Loeb along with Amir Siraj, a then-undergraduate student at Harvard observed U.S. government sensors data closely and found some anomaly. Then, Loeb started research about this object which was confirm in 2022 to be coming from extraterrestrial place and not from our solar system.
Surprisingly, this is not the first time when Loeb's findings puzzled scientific community. In 2017, he has speculated about potential extraterrestrial artifacts, the Oumuamua comet.
Loeb and his team were performing an extensive search off the Manus Island coast, using advanced magnet-laden sled from their ship to probe and map the ocean floor.
The teams led by Loeb were rewarded for their patience and diligence as they collected more than 700 microscopic spheres, detectable only under a microscope. "This is a historic discovery, marking the first time that humans hold materials from a large interstellar object," entrepreneur Hoskinson praised their efforts.
If the findings are proven true, it will definitely regarded as a breakthrough to reshape our general understanding of the universe. "The findings demonstrate the success of the first exploratory expedition and pave the way for a second expedition to seek more data," McCallum from EYOS said. "We love to enable our clients’ projects anywhere on Earth, but this one is out of this world."
