Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims he may have discovered evidence of extraterrestrial life and will reveal it next month – saying we should WELCOME the news

A Harvard alien-hunting astrophysicist has said his research that could prove the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life will be published next month.

Professor Avi Loeb is leading an analysis of recovered fragments of the IM1 meteor that broke up in January 2014 over the Pacific Ocean off Manus Island, about 420 kilometers from Papua New Guinea.

IM1’s orbit and speed strongly suggested that the object was interstellar, and Loeb is trying to prove whether the object was designed by using an analysis of small fragments recovered from the ocean floor.

“What we’re doing now is analyzing the composition of the molten droplets that fell from this object when it was exposed to the fireball it created as it moved through the air,” Loeb said. Fox news on Monday.

“And we’re getting some interesting results, but I can’t describe them in detail until we put them together in a paper, a scientific paper that we plan to make available to everyone in about a month,” he added.

A Harvard duo recovered 50 unusual iron spheres after tracking down the unidentified object, known as IM1, off the coast of Papua New Guinea in June

Scientists are already pretty sure that IM1 came from outside the solar system, and Loeb’s analysis hopes to shed light on whether it’s a normal space rock, or an engineered device like a craft or probe.

“This object was moving very fast, faster than 95 percent of the stars near the sun, and it also had stronger material strength than any of the rocks we’d seen in the NASA catalog over the past decade,” Loeb said.

“So there’s a chance, I wouldn’t quantify it, that it’s other than a rock,” the scientist added. “It’s certainly not a stone of the type we know.”

Loeb said if the analysis shows signs that IM1 was engineered, it could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life.

‘It would mean that we have a neighbor, that we are not alone. Just like when you realize that when you go to your backyard and you find a tennis ball thrown by a neighbor, you realize, ‘Yes, I have a neighbor,'” he said.

“We should applaud it. It will be information that we can learn from. It will inspire us to explore space. It can make us better instead of fighting each other. Maybe it’s a wake-up call for us to realize that there are more important things in life than fighting with other people,” he said.

The Berkeley lab’s new analysis of the IM1 spheres (examples pictured) now shows that the object was likely composed almost entirely of iron, which Harvard astrophysicist and Galileo Project founder Avi Loeb says is unlike any other. other meteors or asteroids known to man.

With complete confidence that the final path for IM1 covered this 6.2 square mile ocean (highlighted in orange above), the team then scraped the deep ocean floor with a meter-wide magnetic ‘sled’. They made ‘Runs’ (green lines above) along both IM1’s path and the ‘control’ areas

UFO chasing Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb (left) and his team, including Amir Siraj (right), have recovered Pacific meteor fragments that may prove extraterrestrial life exists

Loeb previously told the Daystar that no fewer than four research institutions are currently training their scientific equipment and personnel on samples of the recovered metal fragments.

The fragments, 50 mostly iron spheres about 0.1 to 0.7 mm in diameter, likely come from an object that originated outside our solar system – based on analysis by Loeb and a former student, as well as scientists from U.S. Space Command.

Loeb’s colleagues in Germany, Papua New Guinea and at two top universities in the United States are now closely examining the spheres to determine whether their atomic isotopes, chemical composition and other details could prove an extraterrestrial origin.

“We’re working to find out in about a month what this meteor is made of and whether it might be technological in origin or not,” Loeb said.

Loeb and his colleagues have named the object IM1, for “Interstellar Meteor 1,” though it also goes by a different, more technical name with NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) meteor catalog: CNEOS 20140108.

IM1 is currently ranked first in terms of material strength of all 273 fireballs in the NASA CNEOS meteor catalogan early clue to its scientific value.

With great confidence that the final path for IM1 covered 16 square kilometers (6.2 sq mi) of ocean near Manus Island, the team was then able to scrape the deep ocean floor with a large magnetic ‘sled’ (above) – both along the path of IM1 and various ‘control’ regions

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb (third from left) and Harvard-educated physicist Amir Siraj (right) worked with their Galileo team to carefully remove samples of iron from the magnetic sled

“It was moving faster than 95 percent of the nearby stars near the sun because of some propulsion it had,” Loeb said. “It was also made of very strong material.”

Loeb has left open the possibility that IM1 — estimated to have been about three feet in diameter and about half a ton in weight when it blazed through Earth’s atmosphere, ejecting tiny droplets of molten metal — could be an alien probe.

The size of a meteor-like object falls within the margins of humanity’s own probes now plunging deeper into the cosmos, such as the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, reaching lengths of 12 at the longest points of their high-gain antennas. ft.

The Voyager 2 unmanned reconnaissance probe is currently itself an interstellar object, now more than 12.3 billion miles from Earth, but still beaming its ‘heartbeat signal’ back to NASA.

“If it’s anything like the Voyager spacecraft colliding with the planet, that would appear as a meteor,” Loeb noted. “We’ll find out.”