Astronomers have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial creatures for decades. A professor and astronomer from Harvard was convinced that he had already found the proof.
Proof of Extraterrestrial Life Found in the Pacific Ocean
A $1.5 million expedition led by Professor Avi Loeb to look for evidence of the mysterious IM1 meteor, which is said to have crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014, has now ended. The meteor found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is thought to have originated from interstellar space.
Loeb's investigation began in 2019 when his study team noticed IM1 while searching NASA's open-source meteor archive for unusual space debris discovered near the Earth. Because of its rapid velocity-faster than 95% of neighboring stars-and the fact that it had detonated significantly lower in the Earth's atmosphere than other meteors, IM1 stood out from other meteors.
The 61-year-old astronomer, who has been looking for proof of alien life, was in charge of a group of deep-sea scientists that discovered 50 small spherules or molten droplets using a magnetic sled that was lowered from the expedition ship Silver Star 2 kilometers beneath the ocean's surface, The Independent reported.
He thinks the half-millimeter-sized objects are most likely formed of a steel-titanium alloy, which is significantly more durable than the iron present in most meteors. Prof. Loeb believes they either have galactic origins or were created by an advanced extraterrestrial culture, albeit more testing is now necessary.
From 2011 until 2020, Professor Loeb served as the department's chair. He is currently the director of Harvard's Galileo Project, which is building publicly funded observatories throughout the globe to look for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
He has long courted controversy because of his outspoken conviction that aliens have visited Earth.
Prof. Loeb claimed in his bestselling 2021 book "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" that "Oumuamua," a pancake-shaped space rock about the size of a football field that was visible to scientists for 11 days in 2017, could only have been an interstellar technology built by aliens.
He conflicts with most of the scientific community because of his beliefs. However, the outspoken scientist known as the "alien hunter of Harvard" told The Independent that those who disagree with his conclusions are "arrogant" for doing so.
The items will be returned to Harvard for assessment to verify their composition. But for Prof. Loeb, the "miracle" discovery proves his unconventional approaches work.
Why Do UAP Stories Interest the Public?
Despite the lack of evidence, people love to talk about aliens and other extraterrestrial creatures or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs). In a previous report from Science Times, we learned that Americans consume such materials at an insatiable rate.
Millions of viewers tuned in to Fox Television's 1995 medical autopsy of an extraterrestrial from space. According to Scientific American, the 17-minute black-and-white movie purportedly showed military doctors attending to an alien who had died in a flying saucer collision and seemed bloated and anthropomorphic.
Due to its generated uproar, Fox played the presentation twice that year with "added footage" of the UFO crash. The hoax, which recycled the Roswell narrative and claimed that in 1947 the American government found an alien craft in the desert of New Mexico, was well-worn even then.
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