First ever alien object recovered on Earth: Harvard Avi Loeb says hundreds of tiny fragments they found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean WERE from outside our solar system

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

Updated: 13:51 BST, 29 August 2023

Scientists have analyzed interstellar material on Earth for the first time in history.

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb announced Tuesday that the hundreds of tiny metal fragments recovered from the Pacific Ocean originated outside our solar system.

The remnants came from a meter-size object that crashed off the coast of Papua, New Guinea in 2014, which Loeb claims was an alien craft.

He and a team spent two weeks in June trawling the seafloor in hopes of recovering evidence to hold up his theory.

While the announcement does not confirm extraterrestrials, Loeb deems it a historic discovery ‘because it represents the first time that humans put their hand on materials from a large object that arrived to Earth from outside the solar system.’

The remnants came from a meter-size object that crashed off the coast of Papua, New Guinea in 2014, which Loeb claims was an alien craft

 ‘The success of the expedition illustrates the value of taking risks in science despite all odds as an opportunity for discovering new knowledge,’ Loeb wrote on Medium.

Loeb and his team traveled to a site where the meteor IM1 was believed to have crashed nearly a decade ago. 

The Harvard scientists spent years working closely with the US military to pin down the impact zone near Papua New Guinea, combing through data to determine if and when the object fell from space.

The US Space Command confirmed in April 2022 that the 1.5-foot-wide meteorite came from another solar system, making it the first known interstellar visitor to Earth.

And this, according to Loeb, provides more evidence to back up his theory.

Loeb has made a name for himself for openly believing that aliens have made contact with Earth.

In 2021, the physicist released a book titled ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,’ that argued that Oumuamu is not a comet or asteroid but a light sail – a method of spacecraft propulsion.

Oumuamua was discovered in October 2017 by a telescope in Hawaii, millions of miles away, and initially deemed Earth’s first interstellar visitor until 2022.

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb announced Tuesday that the hundreds of tiny metal fragments recovered from the Pacific Ocean originated outside our solar system 

The data from the analysis showed that the fragments are rich in Beryllium, lanthanum and uranium, along with low content of elements with high affinity to iron, like Rhenium. Pictured is the composition of a fragment found at the site

Loeb and his team found 700 spherules of diameter 0.05–1.3 millimeters through 26 runs covering a survey area measuring a quarter of a square kilometer.  

‘The retrieved spherules are being analyzed by the best instruments in the world within four laboratories at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, the Bruker Corporation, and the University of Technology in Papua New Guinea — whose Vice Chancellor signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Harvard University for partnership on the expedition research,’ Loeb wrote.

The data from the analysis showed that the fragments are rich in Beryllium, lanthanum and uranium, along with low content of elements with high affinity to iron, like Rhenium – one of the rarest elements found on Earth.

‘Spherules with the ‘BeLaU’ abundances were found only along IM1’s path and not in control regions,’ wrote Loeb.

‘The ‘BeLaU’ elemental abundance pattern does not match terrestrial alloys, fallout from nuclear explosions, magma ocean abundances of Earth or its Moon or Mars, or other natural meteorites in the solar system.’

He continued to explain that BeLaU also had an ‘overabundance of heavy elements,’ which could have come from fragments ejected from ore-collapse supernovae or neutron star mergers.

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First ever alien object recovered on Earth: Harvard Avi Loeb says hundreds of tiny fragments they found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean WERE from outside our solar system

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