A random dude on Reddit talking about alien technology is one thing.
An Ivy League astrophysicist is another thing entirely.
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.
The meteor in question was ultimately not found. But Loeb and his team did pick up "spherules" from the ocean floor using magnets they dragged along behind their boat.
The fragments were "almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles." Less than a millimeter in size, the materials are "tougher than all space rock that were seen before, and catalogued by NASA." The speed of the materials outside of the Solar System would be 60 km per second, which is "faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun."
Its durability and speed suggest potential alien tech, he argued.
The research, meanwhile, is just beginning:
"We hope to find a big piece of this object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it's a rock or technological gadget."
