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Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University

Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here's what to make of it

Anybody out there? Triff/Shutterstock, CC BY-SA

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.

Loeb is linking his finding with the passage of a fireball in January 2014. The meteor was observed by sensors of the US Department of Defense that track all objects entering the Earth’s atmosphere. It was recorded as travelling faster than most meteors and eventually broke up over the South Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea.

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