US Government Confirms That Interstellar Object Crashed Into the Earth

The US government has confirmed that an object crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

In a previously classified memo, the US Space Command said that a fireball seen off the coast of Papua New Guinea was the first meteorite to fall to Earth.

Although the Pentagon's newest branch hasn't revealed much more than what the researchers suspected, it is the first admission of its kind, weighed down by bureaucracy and red tape.

Theclusion itself isn't new, but was originally drawn by Harvard theoretical astrophysist Amir Siraj and his mentor, according to Vice.

The pair have had trouble getting their study peer reviewed due to the red tape surrounding the object.

Siraj and Loeb were forced to work for the US government because of the classified information about the small meteorite.

After suggesting that a probe sent by an alien civilization could be Oumuamua, Loeb proposed for his pro.

The object that became the subject of the paper jumped out.

Siraj told Vice that it could be an alien meteorite.

The discovery was exciting, but the pair soon learned that the US military uses the same high-tech sensors used to detect fireballs like this one to track potential nuclear detonations.

The researchers made their way up and down the food chain to get confirmation of the object's speed from the government.

The paper was forwarded to the chief scientist of Space Operations Command at the US Space Force after it was submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

At the Space Foundation's annual Space Symposium, US Space Command deputy commander John Shaw made the first confirmation of its kind, when he said that a previously-detected object was indeed an interstellar object.

Siraj told Vice that he found out about the confirmation via the same message that was sent to the rest of the world.

So there you have it. It may be years late and incomplete, but the government has confirmed that a rock from a different star system has made it all the way here and fallen to Earth for the first time in history.

Scientists say that the first known Interstellar object is on Earth.

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