A Harvard Physicist Is Racing to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe

STELLAR FINDINGS

Fragments of a peculiar meteorite crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014. Avi Loeb thinks they may be proof that intelligent extraterrestrials exist.

Published Mar. 23 2023 4:56AM EDT

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The world’s top alien hunter is about to embark on his most ambitious—and potentially history-making—mission yet. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5-million expedition to Papua New Guinea to search for fragments of a very strange meteorite that impacted just off the coast of the Pacific nation in 2014.

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A Harvard Physicist Is Racing to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe

Fragments of a peculiar meteorite crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014. Avi Loeb thinks they may be proof that intelligent extraterrestrials exist.

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David Axe