Papua New Guinea's 'alien signal' debunked in new Hopkins study

strange but true

by alex mitchell

ET? It's more like U-Haul.

A mysterious signal widely believed to be a sign of alien life for a decade likely came from a noisy truck, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have revealed.

Initially thought to have been caused by a meteor fireball launched just north of Papua New Guinea in the Southern Hemisphere in 2014, this unfortunate fact has led to widespread speculation that the material recovered from the ocean was of extraterrestrial origin. It also puts a damper on speculation by a Harvard University physicist.

The country's seismic observatory on Manus Island also recorded some ground vibrations as the meteor entered the atmosphere – apparently due to terrestrial transport.

“The signal changed direction over time and aligned exactly with the road passing by the seismometer,” said Benjamin Fernando, a seismologist and leader of the Hopkins team.

“It's very hard to receive a signal and be sure it's not from something else. But what we can do is show that there are a lot of signals like this and that they are “It's about showing that it has all the characteristics you would expect from a truck and none of the characteristics you would expect from a Meteor,” he explained.

Fernando said there was a misreading of the data and the meteor entered Earth's sky at a different point. He and his team couldn't find any evidence of seismic waves in space rocks.

“In fact, the location of the fireball was very far from where marine expeditions went to recover meteorite fragments,” he said.

“Not only were they using the wrong signal, they were looking in the wrong place.”

Analyzed data suggests the actual droplet site is at least 160 miles away from where experts investigated. What was actually recovered was a normal meteorite that had accumulated material from Earth.

“What we find on the ocean floor, whether it's a natural space rock or debris from an alien spacecraft, has nothing to do with this meteorite, even though we strongly suspect it wasn't alien. “,” Fernando said.

In parallel to the disappointing news for alien enthusiasts, the Department of Defense recently released a new report on the government's knowledge of the existence of UFOs.

No evidence of extraterrestrial technology was recovered by government agencies.

“Most of the sightings were of common objects or phenomena and were the result of misidentification,” the report added.