После многолетних исследований ночного неба в поисках следов внеземной жизни, астрофизик Гарвардского университета Ави Леб уверен, что обнаружил доказательства их существования на дне Тихого океана.
Профессор Леб руководил экспедицией стоимостью 1,5 миллиона долларов, которая была направлена на поиски загадочного метеорита с именем IM1. Данный метеорит, предположительно, упал у берегов Папуа-Новой Гвинеи в 2014 году и, согласно предположениям, прилетел из межзвездного пространства.
В ходе экспедиции, команда исследователей под руководством профессора Леба обнаружила 50 крошечных сфер или расплавленных капель на глубине 2 километров под поверхностью океана. Эти мелкие объекты, около полумиллиметра в размере, предположительно, сделаны из сплава сталь-титан, который значительно прочнее обычного железа, обычно встречающегося в метеоритах.
Хотя профессор Леб указывает на необходимость дальнейших тестов, он склоняется к мнению, что эти объекты могут быть межзвездного происхождения или быть созданы развитой внеземной цивилизацией.
Профессор Леб известен своей непоколебимой верой в существование инопланетян и долгое время вызывал споры среди научного сообщества. Он возглавляет университетский проект Galileo, направленный на создание обсерваторий с открытым исходным кодом по всему миру для поиска признаков НЛО и межзвездных объектов.
Его книга «Внеземные: первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли», ставшая бестселлером в 2021 году, описывает, как космический камень под названием Оумуамуа, размером с футбольное поле и наблюдавшийся учеными в течение 11 дней в 2017 году, мог быть продуктом межзвездной технологии, созданной инопланетянами.
Его идеи вызвали разногласия с большинством научного сообщества. Однако этот непримиримый ученый, который получил прозвище «охотник за инопланетянами из Гарварда», утверждает, что его скептики «высокомерны» и отвергают его выводы бездоказательно.
Сейчас обнаруженные объекты будут отправлены обратно в Гарвард для дальнейшего тестирования и подтверждения их состава. Для профессора Леба это «удивительное» открытие является еще одним доказательством того, что его нестандартные методы принесли результаты.
Interstellar meteor…. He thinks it is an interstellar meteor but entertains the idea that it COULD be technological… but that only analysis will say for sure.
Just a note for consideration… it may not only be extra-solar, but with that kind of age, extra-Galactic!… deep deep time stuff, that thing was potentially already traveling for 6 billion years prior to the existance of our solar system, that would be fkn wild!
>»Based on the measured abundance of U238, Pb206, U235 and Pb207, I calculated that the two spherules from the meteor path (derived from Run 8 and Run 19) have an age of order the age of the universe (14 billion years) whereas the background spherule (found in Run 17 outside the DoD localization box) has an age of order the age of the solar system (a few billion years). In the coming weeks we will examine carefully any clue for the spherules being different from solar system materials. This will constitute independent evidence for the interstellar origin of IM1 in addition to its measured speed.»
That’s from his blog post yesterday. In which, he suggests that the materials he recovered are ~14 billion years. What are the chances that one of two noted interstellar objects and the only (assumedly) recovered object dates to the beginning of the universe?
I think there is maybe some more work that needs to be done regarding dating. I don’t know enough to know if something like U-Pb dating can be thrown off by anthropogenic material or if U-Pb dating falls apart at extreme ages, but an error in dating or something artificial seems more plausible IMO.
>After spending years studying the night skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes he has found proof of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
>Professor Loeb has just completed a $1.5m expedition searching for signs of a mysterious meteor dubbed IM1 that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014 and is believed to have come from interstellar space.
>The 61-year-old told The Independent he oversaw a team of deep-sea explorers who found 50 tiny spherules, or molten droplets, using a magnetic sled that was dropped from the expedition vessel the Silver Star 2km underneath the surface of the ocean.
>He believes the tiny objects, about half a millimetre in size, are most likely made from a steel-titanium alloy that is much stronger than the iron found in regular meteors.
a number of nuclear tests were conducted in the pacific during the era 1947-1962 at the marshall islands, NE of papua new guinea, where these microglobules were apparently sucked up and sifted from ocean sludge.
i’m unclear how a «magnetic sled» can retrieve «microglobules» less than 1 mm in diameter from a field of silt and organic remains, especially as i didn’t know lead and uranium are attracted to magnets.
this implies the microglobules consist primarily of iron, which would be consistent with the steel hulls of scrap ships vaporized by atomic blasts and blown into the atmosphere by the thermal plume. search «bikini atoll» for the classic image. possibly the uranium is bomb grade (U235) that did not fission in the explosion and U238 that was imperfectly levigated from the yellow cake.
useful in this context would be to examine any microglobules magnetically dredged from a site far distant from the supposed crash site, as a control against weapons metallic fragments.
the most obvious point here is that $1.5 million and quite a lot of folderol will get you 50 rust crusted spherules the size of a grain of salt … at the site where a huge interstellar craft met its end. at least, you make the papers.
What does Avis peers think of him professionally/ personally?
They will be his biggest hurdles
Well, he considers the search for extraterrestrial artefacts for a valuable thing. Why not? He is an arrived prof, nobody can cut his career more or less.
Maybe he found something.
The dude is researching fragments of asteroids and here it gets twisted as if he’s some imbecile seeking aliens at the bottom of the sea. UFO community deserves its reputation.
I’m sorry. Avi is nuts.
Fascinating and want to read more about this. I wonder how any steel or titanium could survive 14 billion years underwater though?
Avi is days away from a 5150.
Please just stop
I’m so sick of these posts.
This happened weeks ago. I thought there was new info.
This guys is full of it
The Abyss Aliens;
*wateryfaceformboop*
I don’t care for this man.
I’m very skeptical of this. We can’t even find the titanic in a mini sub that get’s dropped off at the location of the titanic and then when the damn thing implodes, we can’t even find it.
How is it we are supposed to believe that Avi Loeb jets off to a supposed location where a meteor crashed, goes down to deep depths and magically finds pieces of it and oh, it’s not a meteor, it’s pieces of a spaceship. I think he’s grasping for straws and his place in this opportunity for disclosure because he’s gotten off to a slow start with all of his other projects and now they may not matter because we are about to hopefully hit the jackpot in the near future with some type of confirmation related to UAP’s and NHI.
every rock is a spaceship, needs funding
Alien ship crashed into ocean at such high speed that spherules formed? That’s sus
I wonder how much of that budget went into his own pocket.
The article doesn’t support the title.
Interstellar meteor is not necessarily a UFO
Could everybody stop obsessing over this guy. He’s an Israeli, a unit 8200 graduate, which is their NSA, and should not be trusted. They’ve infiltrated way too many of our institutions, we don’t need them infiltrating our own country’s UFO disclosure process. Because mark my words, they’ll steal all the technology and sell it to China and Russia, which they do anyway. Please spread the word, because I’m seeing too much praise for this guy. We need to be careful. His allegiance is to a foreign nation.
Loeb annoys me to no end. He just wants to have his name in lights and uses Harvard for legitimacy while having nothing worthwhile to say. Oumoma was a spaceship, uh, ok. You saw it for a second before it was gone. Now you have tiny bits from under the sea? If it wasn’t for name dropping Harvard would anyone listen to him
The “may” in your title is doing ALOT of work here
I don’t see where he said he thinks this is alien, just interstellar? Did I read the article wrong?
Loeb seems pretty scientific to me. I doubt he’s settling on this is alien right off the bat with no analysis.
Thumbnail makes bro look like a menace.
Right? A few of the satellite galaxies seem close enough… Im just full of speculations, but its a seriously cool find no matter what.