Avi Loeb

You didn't even ask me.

The data that led us to this place was based on the fireball, on the light that was detected by U.S.

government satellites.

And the U.S.

Space Command confirmed the location.

It was not based on the seismic detection of the signal.

We just looked and found this.

I wrote to the editor at the time and said, look, if this is what you write about science, how can we trust what you write about politics?

We found that 10% of them had a chemical composition different than solar system materials that were found before.

And again, my colleagues, some of them said, oh, they found coal ash, you know, the burnt material from coal ash.

So we said, okay, well, let's check.

We identified 61 elements from the periodic table and showed that it's definitely not coal ash.

And then they said, it's something else from the crust of the earth.

We checked that.

It's not from the crust of the earth.

It's an endless battle to basically, I mean, they can throw mud without having access to the material.

Yeah, they say the government cannot be trusted.

They raise a lot of dust.

If you raise a lot of dust, you can say, I don't see anything.

But this is the landscape I have to operate in.