Avi Loeb

And I expressed my frustration at dinner as chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the National Academies.

And there was a member there from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

And he said, let me help you.

We managed to reach out to the U.S.

Space Command through the White House at the time.

And we got an official letter from the U.S.

Space Command saying, we looked at the data.

And we can verify the 99.999% that this object, this meteor, which was roughly half a meter in size, came from outside the solar system.

That's what they said.

At that point, I decided to lead an expedition to the Pacific Ocean where the explosion was identified from the fireball.

There was a huge amount of light.

to go there and search for the materials from that object because it was moving fast.

It was moving at 60 kilometers per second relative to the solar system, very similar to 3I Atlas.

So it was fast.

And moreover, the object maintained its integrity down to the lower atmosphere.

It didn't explode until it got within 20 kilometers of the surface of the ocean.

So it must have been extremely tough, much tougher than all the previous meteors cataloged by NASA.

Okay, so I can show you some images from that trip to the Pacific Ocean.

Actually, it was documented by Netflix, and there will be a documentary coming out within a year, next year, 2026.

This was the team of researchers that came with me on the deck of the ship, and we collected materials with a magnetic sled.