Harvard’s Avi Loeb says 50 microscopic spheres found in Pacific Ocean may be from ‘alien probe’

A leading Harvard physicist claims he may have found the remains of an alien “spacecraft” at the bottom of the ocean.

Professor Avi Loeb – the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department from 2011 to 2020 and now head of Ivy League University’s Galileo project – spent two weeks combing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean looking for fragments of a 2014 meteor which crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

The meteor, dubbed IM1, is believed to have originated in interstellar space.

Using a magnetic sled, his team found 50 small iron spherical fragments, which he said must have come from “a natural environment distinct from the solar system, or an alien technological civilization.”

Professor Loeb has argued for years that Earth may have been visited by interstellar technology. In 2017, an interstellar object called Oumuamua passed through the solar system, and while most scientists believe it was a natural phenomenon, Professor Loeb claimed it could be of extraterrestrial origin.

The expedition follows his long-held argument that the cigar-shaped interstellar visitor Oumuamua, which passed through our solar system in 2017, was of extraterrestrial origin.

After the discovery of Oumuamua in 2017, Professor Loeb theorized – despite much criticism – that more interstellar objects had probably whizzed past Earth.

He was vindicated in 2019 when a student discovered that a fast fireball in 2014, the IM1 meteor, also had an interstellar origin, before Oumuamua.

Air drag caused IM1 to burst into flames in midair as it raced toward Earth, leaving a trail of molten iron raindrops in its wake on January 8 of that year.

The discovery that these interstellar metal fragments could be dredged from the Pacific Ocean with powerful magnets led to Loeb and his Galileo team’s latest mission.

“Given IM1’s high speed and abnormal material strength,” Loeb said Fox News digital this week, “the source must have been a natural environment other than the solar system, or an alien technological civilization.”

IM1, Loeb noted, “is actually harder and has a material strength higher than any of the space rocks cataloged by NASA.” That makes it quite unusual.’

He hasn’t dismissed the idea that these mysterious iron debris from IM1 could be the first hard evidence that a “spacecraft” from an “alien technological civilization” crash-landed on our planet.

The discovery of the orbs at the bottom of the ocean stems from increasing congressional attention to UFOs.

This week, Senator Marco Rubio revealed that he had heard from senior officials that the US is conducting several illegal UFO retrieval projects.

Loeb is on his way home from the Pacific Ocean with 50 small iron “balls,” recovered using a magnetic sled (top center). The sled was used to comb the sea floor for metal fragments that could be the remains of an alien craft

The two finds of Runs 9 and 12 spheres in the Pacific Ocean near the path of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1

Not all fragments are spherical. Here is another small fragment also made of iron

Loeb and his team spent two weeks at sea analyzing samples from the Pacific Ocean

Loeb spoke to Fox News from the boat to discuss the 50 metal spheres he found during the two-week mission

But whether the object turns out to be intelligently crafted or naturally made, Loeb said his group’s physical recovery of material from beyond our solar system is already “historic” and “successful.”

Loeb has sparked controversy, as well as millions in independent funding, over his search for materials in space that could be evidence or artifacts of alien civilizations exploring our solar system.

Last year, US Space Command scientists and classified technology confirmed Loeb and Siraj’s calculations of IM1’s interstellar trajectory, reporting in an official letter to NASA that they were 99.999 percent sure the object came from beyond the range of our sun.

Loeb’s critics in the world of astronomy and astrophysics had expressed skepticism about this idea, as well as the professor’s theory that IM1 might be composed of iron metal, but they have also been proven wrong on this detail.

Loeb and his team have found that iron is the “dominant component” of the chemical composition of the IM1 spheres thanks to on-board analysis via X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.

The findings are a firm rebuke to astrophysicists at Canada’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, who claimed that their computer modeling of IM1’s behavior before impact “argues strongly against an iron object.’

Back at the lab, Loeb and his team will determine what the atomic elements and isotopes of IM1’s crash debris might reveal about the interstellar object’s place of origin or perhaps even its alien creators.

“This has never been done before,” Loeb said. “We’ve never had a package delivered to our door from a cosmic neighbor.”

“This could be the first time humans get their hands on interstellar material,” he said.