'Alien' objects are 'most likely' fragments of a faraway planet

‘Alien’ objects which crashed in the Pacific are ‘most likely’ fragments of a faraway planet struck by a meteor similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, astrophysicist says

• Professor Avi Loeb said the objects could have been made by alien technologies
• An astrophysicist said they are ‘most likely’ just fragments of another planet

‘Extraterrestrial’ objects recovered from the bottom of the Pacific ocean are ‘most likely’ just fragments of a faraway planet that was struck by a meteorite, an astrophysicist has said. 

The ‘alien’ materials, which were retrieved from the seafloor off the coast of Papua New Guinea, were claimed by controversial theoretical physicist Avi Loeb to have possibly been created using ‘extraterrestrial technologies’. 

The Harvard professor, who has gained the nickname the ‘alien hunter,’ refused to rule out the possibility that the tiny metal spheres, recovered from the sea where the IM1 meteor crashed in 2014, are in fact the remnants of an alien spacecraft. 

Professor Loeb claims the unusual chemical makeup of the 57 metallic spheres discovered on the seabed indicate they are from outside our solar system. He now plans to test whether they were made by alien technologies. 

Dr Phil Sutton, an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln has, however, claimed the fragments are most likely just pieces of ‘shrapnel’ ejected from another planet following a collision with a meteor. 

Professor Avi Loeb (pictured) has said metallic objects found in the Pacific Ocean could have been created using ‘extraterrestrial technologies’

The metallic spheres are believed to be from the IM1 meteorite, which Professor Avi Loeb has said may have its origins in ‘exotic sources’ 

Professor Avi Loeb recovered the metallic fragments from the seabed off the coast of Papua New Guinea 

‘The most likely explanation is that an object similar to what wiped out the dinosaurs here on Earth hit a planet in another star system and sent some material out from the core and magma ocean which has then melted together in the impact,’ Dr Sutton told The Telegraph. 

Nonetheless, the astrophysicist said the makeup of the fragments signal the metal spheres are likely from outside our solar system, in an area of the universe that is very different from our own. 

In a non-peer reviewed study, Professor Loeb said the chemical patterns seen in the fragments, which are believed to be from the IM1 meteor, are unlike the patterns observed in ‘natural meteorites’. 

The Harvard professor also claimed the speed at which the IM1 meteor was observed travelling at, through the universe, was significantly higher than other similar objects, as he suggested the meteor may have originated from ‘exotic sources’.  

‘This has come from another star and is, potentially, part of a planet from another star system,’ he said. 

‘This shrapnel could have been ejected with such force that it was moving fast enough to escape the star system it was from, perhaps aided by a slingshot from other planets. I think that that is probably the most plausible explanation.’

The composition analysis of the spherules was performed by Stein Jacobsen (right) and his cosmochemistry laboratory team at Harvard University. Center is Avi Loeb and left is Sophie Bergstrom

The 50 iron spheres recovered from the Pacific (above) were analyzed at Berkeley in a lab. They were shown to be ‘anomalous’ 

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

Professor Loeb used advanced technology to probe the inside of the tiny spheres, allowing him to see detailed patterns of the elements 

Dr Sutton, however, refused to rule out the possibility that the metallic fragments are in fact the remnants of an alien spacecraft or that they were created by alien technologies. 

‘I am a scientist and I am also open-minded to a lot of possibilities,’ he said. ‘I don’t think you can rule out that it could be an alien spacecraft. Most people will scoff at the idea and say it is utterly ridiculous.’ 

Top scientists took a more unforgiving view of Professor Loeb’s claims as Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, called them ‘over-hyped’. 

Professor Monica Grady, from the Open University, even questioned whether the fragments are from the IM1 meteor at all. She instead claimed the objects could have been created during nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 50s.

‘The Islands were the site of 67 nuclear tests by the US between 1946 and 1958, and there is still a legacy from the radiation damage caused by the tests,’ she said. ‘The spherules could be fallout from the nuclear tests – produced by a human-generated supernova.’

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