'It has material strength that is tougher than all space rock that were seen before, and catalogued by NASA,' added Loeb, 'We calculated its speed outside the solar system. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background,' explained Loeb, 'They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth.'Īn analysis of the composition showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. Researchers combed the ocean floor by attaching a sled full of magnets to their boat. The ship took numerous passes along and around the meteor's projected path. Loeb and his crew took a boat called the Silver Star out to the area. Those calculations happened to carve a path right through the same projected 10 km range that came from the U.S. Their calculations allowed them to chart the potential path of the meteor. 'We figured the distance of the fireball based off the time delay between the arrival of blast wave, the boom of explosion, and the light that arrived quickly.'

It's a very big area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down,' said Loeb. 'That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. SEE ALSO | Las Vegas police respond to home after 911 call claims UFO with aliens crashed in backyard The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 mile) radius of where it may have landed. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system. Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014, WBZ reported.

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