Harvard astronomer and noted UFO hunter Avi Loeb recently claimed that tiny spherules of mysterious alloys may be evidence of an interstellar object — and even possibly proof of the existence of an extraterrestrial civilization — that crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean back in 2014.
Loeb's out-there theory has garnered plenty of media attention as of late — but not everybody is willingly subscribing to his theory.
In a piece for The Conversation last week, Open University planetary science professor Monica Grady threw cold water on Loeb's claims, arguing that he's making a "very large scientific leap from observing a fireball to claiming it is an alien spaceship."
Grady argued that the tiny metal spheres Loeb and his team fished out of the ocean are most likely "terrestrial pollutants" and not proof that an interstellar civilization came by for a visit nine years ago.
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