A Harvard physicist ruffled feathers in the scientific community this year when he claimed to find the first ever objects from outside our solar system on Earth.
Professor Avi Loeb said that small, round ‘spherules’ recovered from the Pacific Ocean were from an ‘interstellar’ meteor.
The expert even analysed the spherules, alleging that their composition of elements had ‘never been seen before’, and that they could be remnants of an alien spacecraft.
However, the claim was met by criticism from