A UFO-hunting Harvard astrophysicist who recovered meteor fragments that may prove alien life exists has been accused of stealing it by Papua New Guinea.

Professor Avi Loeb announced last month he and his team had successfully recovered fragments of the IM1 meteor that plunged to the Earth in January 2014 and ended up in the sea off Manus Island 260 miles from Papua New Guinea.

Loeb has mused that the fragments could be 'technological in origin' although other scientists believe the speculation is premature, the Sunday Times reported. 

The removal of the scientific marvel has left Papua New Guinea officials enraged many accusing the team of bypassing the conventional licensing channels and removing the foreign object without clear agreement on the benefits such a discovery would have for the country.

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