Another study has cast doubt on a Harvard professor's claim that he discovered tiny metallic balls made by aliens at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Related: 'Oumuamua isn't an alien spaceship — it's a rock that's farting hydrogen, new study suggests Loeb and his team first found the meteor in 2019, after scouring databases for space rocks that had arrived at Earth via unusual trajectories. Dubbed IM1 after its discovery, the meteor appeared to be moving too fast to have come from within our solar system, leading Loeb to wonder if it was a probe from an alien spacecraft.
"The signal changed directions over time, exactly matching a road that runs past the seismometer," Fernando said."It's really difficult to take a signal and confirm it is not from something. But what we can do is show that there are lots of signals like this, and show they have all the characteristics we'd expect from a truck and none of the characteristics we'd expect from a meteor.