Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project;
On Run 6 of the magnetic sled through the likely crash site of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, the expedition research team recovered shards of corroded iron. At first, we thought it may be common industrial iron associated with human-made ocean trash. But when Ryan Weed ran the sample of shards through the X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, the most likely alloy it flagged is X5 steel with titanium, which is also known as shock-resisting steel.
The yield strength of S5 steel, 1.7 GPa, is well above that of iron meteorites. This is consistent with the fact that IM1 was tougher in material strength than all other 272 meteors in the CNEOS catalog of NASA.
Most importantly, the shape of the recovered shards is nearly flat — as if they were surface layers broken off from a technological object which experienced extreme material stress.
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I’m not saying that it’s aliens,
but ….
Very interesting…
I would have thought alien ships would be made with heretofore unknown substances.
They dragged a magnet through a pile of debris. Unless your unknown materials have properties similar to ferrous metals … nada.
Hey! Their magnet didn’t pick up any unknown substances !! That PROVES the unknown substances were there … undetected by our puny science!! Yeah !! Nothing … PROVES … that aliens exist! Right, GYM?
They always work with stone on Earth, however. Ancient Alien Theorists never discover anything made of Unobtanium or even having steel rebar.
We can’t see, feel, or detect Unobtanium. We lack the … understanding … necessary … to obtain … Alien Love. Although our womyn really get off on Alien tentacle porn. Esp. the Japanese anime-loving womyn.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…
It must be aliens..
Could be alien ducks. Think inside the box.
Howard the Duck?
Meh.
And I’m neither anti-alien or pro-alien … but I am pro-evidence and pro-proof. This is neither.
Non – proof.
Ancient alien theorist will never name one n Egyptian, Roman, Grecian, Peloponnesian, Aztec, Mayan civilization that has ever been saved by aliens even though they built their temples, Raped their women, mutualated cows and horses dipped snuff and flew off in spaceships.
It’s probably some guy who’s coming out with a book about the search for extraterrestrial life in a couple of months.
So it could be the charred remains of ET’s last flight.
Or it could be a ploy to juice book sales.
I’ll vote for the latter.
It must be aliens, it must be good science. nobody’s wearing an inappropriate shirt!
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/fashion/the-lessons-of-a-rosetta-scientists-shirt.html
Geez you guys.
Take a joke.
It’s probably nothing? Confirmed as nothing.
“It is possible that we will conclude that the shards are all human made…”
Possible? Actually it’s highly likely.
I’m with Kenji on this, I do think that there are other planets with intelligent life out there, but whether they are visiting us or not requires evidence, and right now it’s a dog and pony show with a three ring circus on the side. I’ll wait until there is irrefutable proof. But, just for the satisfaction of believing there is actual intelligent life out there (there sure ain’t much on this planet) I truly hope that proof occurs in my lifetime. 🙂
Any chance von daniken will be penning a new tale?
They successfully design, build and fly an interstellar craft, fly millions of light years across the universe to come and visit for some reason, can manage to stay entirely invisible to any of our technology, but somehow get drunk and crash their ship. Many many many times.
Perhaps the aliens just sentence drunk driving aliens to come do missions on earth in their shittiest interstellar vehicles on the hope they’ll crash here and not come back.
Yep, seems totally legit.
I heard a comedian explain that. Sure, they’re an advanced species, but on weekends the operation is run by part-timers and students…
I believe Earth is a penal colony for Alien life … kinda like Australia. And they don’t want to mix with us aboriginals. Well … again … except for the occasional alien tentacle porn committed on a certain … type … of human female. Those who are … open … to that sort of invasion.
Apparently they have recovered bodies of ETs from all these crashes and they are all of the female gender.
Which confirms my long held view women can’t drive.
Oh shit what radical racial chauvinist pig comment that was.
But it was funny.
Bha.
Also could be one of the many Russian space program failures. They had a habit of launching floating smokers into the sky (as many an unfortunate Cosmonaut found out the hard way).
or just another unfortunate shipwreck with a long debris trail .
Phhhhbt! That’s nothing. I was once dragging a farmer’s field for meteorites and found a ’67 Impala.
Proof positive that space aliens drive Chevy.
Old Canuck at 4:47
I can imagine one way to square that circle and that is a Generation ship where the current crew has no actual atmospheric flight experience; only what they were able to practice on their own version of a flight simulator and may be vulnerable on how such a simulator was programmed. But I totally agree with you, even totally mediocre pilots know enough to run through a pre-flight check list and don’t crash their craft at anything like the rate presumed by the number of assumed vehicles stashed away by various governments over the last 80+ years.
Robert
Did I miss the part where they said when this meteor hit?
January 8, 2014, off the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea. Trajectory confirmed to be extra-solar in 2019.
So it could have easily got together with something made on Earth.
Stuff made on Earth could have been there for many years before the meteorite arrived.
Yes, that’s what I was getting at.
It’s obviously from a submersible.
What do they identify as? no sign of pronouns? probably just normal ET’s ….
We’ll never hear about this in the MSM if they’re “just normal”
I am pretty sure that the photo is one that my wife took when we had company for dinner and I over did the steaks by about 2 or 3 beers. Pizza was good.