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(CBS / WVLT) – A professor at Harvard University has published a new book, claiming that humans are probably not alone in the universe.
CBS4 reports that astronomer Avi Loeb’s book, “Extraterrestrial,” examines the 2017 flyby of a space object he believes to be extraterrestrial.
“At first people thought it must be a rock, just like the asteroids or comets we’ve seen before in the solar system,” Loeb told CBSN Boston’s Paula Ebben. “But since they got more data on this, it seems very strange.”
The cigar-shaped object was seen by telescopes and has been nicknamed “Oumuamua”, which means “a messenger from a distant past” in Hawaiian. Researchers at the time said it was 10 times as long as it was wide and ran at a speed of 196,000 mph.
“It didn’t look like a comet but it behaved like something that has extra thrust,” Loeb said.
CBS4 reported that NASA confirmed it to be the “first object ever seen in our solar system known to have originated elsewhere.” However, its origins are unknown.
Loeb argues in the book that the object was likely debris of advanced alien technology. It could have been, he said, a sort of “light sail” propelled by sunlight.
“It’s possible that there is a lot of space garbage out there or that it is a probe,” he said. “We don’t know because we haven’t collected enough data, enough evidence and I’m just alerting everyone to look for objects like this so that the next time there is a, we were looking at it more carefully.
CBS4 reported that researchers should search for objects like this instead of just looking for radio signals.
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