A Harvard Scientist Said He Believes A Meteor At The Bottom Of The South Pacific Houses Alien Technology
Adam Glanzman for the Washington Post via Getty ImagesAvi Loeb, a physicist at Harvard University.
Back in 2014, a small meteor dubbed CNEOS 2014-01-08 broke through Earth’s atmosphere and fell into the South Pacific Ocean, where it now rests on the sea floor in countless tiny pieces.
But Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes that among those small fragments, there may be a piece of extraterrestrial technology — and he’s determined to find it.
“The ideal scenario is that in addition to tiny fragments, we would find a piece of an advanced technological device, like the hundredth version of the iPhone,” Loeb said. “I would love to press a button on such an object.”
Loeb first theorized that the small, two-foot meteor originated outside our solar system based on its speed and how much it burned upon entering Earth’s atmosphere — a theory that was confirmed in 2022 by U.S. Space Command.
Loeb then launched a $1.5 million privately-funded expedition to search for fragments from the meteor, and he even believes he can narrow down his search area to 40 square miles.
“There is also the possibility that it will be made of some alloy that nature doesn’t put together, and that would imply the object is technological,” Loeb said. “If you ask what my wish is, if it’s indeed of artificial origin, and there was some component of the object that survived, and if it has any buttons on it, I would love to press them.”
