Harvard Prof Said Ocean Balls Were Alien Tech, May Just Be Industrial Waste
Harvard Prof Said Ocean Balls Were Alien Tech, May Just Be Industrial Waste
A Harvard professor’s claims that metallic balls discovered under the ocean may have been made by aliens have been called into question yet again. In July, Avi Loeb, the director of a computational-astrophysics center at Harvard, said spherules dredged from the Pacific Ocean were left behind by a meteor that exploded near Earth in 2014. Their bizarre chemical makeup, he said, suggested they could be a form of alien technology.
Spheres from industrial waste
Patricio Gallardo, a research fellow at the University of Chicago, analyzed the chemical composition of coal ash, a waste product left behind by the combustion of coal in power plants and steam engines. His analysis found that iron, nickel, beryllium, lanthanum, and uranium concentrations reported by Loeb and colleagues in the metal spherules were “consistent with expectations from coal ash from a coal chemical composition database.”
In a post on Medium published Thursday, Loeb said the coal-ash theory was “based on unrefereed comments that superficially examined a few elements out of the dozens we analyzed.”
