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Harvard Professor Believes He's Found Fragments Of Alien Technology
"When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background," said Loeb. "They are almost perfect spheres."
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July 6, 2023
CAMBRIDGE - A Harvard professor believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014.
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Avi Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The US Space Command can confirm with almost near certainty, 99,999%, that it came from another solar system. The US Government gave Loeb a 10 km radius of where it may have landed.
"That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It's a very big area the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down," said Loeb, "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."
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes these fragments may be alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014./Avi Loeb/CBS Boston
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