Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard discovers fragments that might have alien technology

A Harvard University astrophysicist claims to have significantly advanced the quest for extraterrestrial life. According to Harvard professor Avi Loeb, he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in Papua New Guinea in 2014, WBZ reported.

Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 miles) radius of where it may have landed.

"That is where the fireball occurred, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It's a huge area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down," said Loeb. "We figured the distance of the fireball based on the time delay between the blast wave's arrival, the explosion's boom, and the light that arrived quickly."

According to USA Today, the fragments the team uncovered are believed to be from a basketball-sized meteorite that 2014 slammed into the Earth's atmosphere and the western Pacific Ocean. Originating from outside the solar system, the meteor moved twice faster than nearly all of the stars near the sun, Loeb said.

"We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background," explained Loeb, "They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth."

An analysis of the composition showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. They are sub-millimeters in size. The crew found 50 of them in total.