An astronomer at Harvard University claims to have made substantial progress in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Professor Avi Loeb believes he has unearthed alien technology from a meteor that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014.

Astronomer Loeb and his team simply returned the materials to Harvard for analysis. The United States Space Command can confirm with 99.999% certainty that it came from another solar system. The authorities offered Loeb a 10-kilometre (6.2-mile) radius around where the plane might have landed.

“That was the location of the fireball, and the government detected it through the Department of Defence. It’s a large area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to narrow it down”, Loeb explained.

“We figured the distance of the fireball based on the time delay between the arrival of the blast wave, the boom of the explosion, and the light that arrived quickly”, he continued.

The fragments discovered by the scientists are thought to be from a basketball-sized meteorite that slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere and the western Pacific Ocean in 2014.

According to Loeb, the meteor, which came from outside our solar system, travelled at a speed that was two times quicker than that of almost all nearby stars.

“We discovered ten spherules. These are either nearly flawless spheres or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they stand out from the background”, Loeb explained.

“They are gold, blue, and brown in colour, and some of them resemble miniature Earth”, he added.

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