It's official: A fireball that exploded over Earth in 2014 is our first interstellar visitor

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It's official: A fireball that exploded over Earth in 2014 is our first interstellar visitor
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Recently declassified data sheds light on our first detected interstellar visitor. ☄️

The team's paper has waited over three years to be verified through peer review. The delay was due to the classified nature of some of the data they used to reach their conclusions. scientists have officially confirmed the team's findings. A memo on the subject shared on Twitter shared on the 6th of April by Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw, deputy commander of the USSC, explained that the 2019 analysis of the fireball was"sufficiently accurate to confirm an interstellar trajectory.

"The possibility of getting the first piece of interstellar material is exciting enough to check this very thoroughly and talk to all the world experts on ocean expeditions to recover meteorites," Siraj told Vice. , the now-infamous, cigar-shaped object that is also moving far too fast to have originated in our solar system, by three years, according to the USSC memo. The 2014 meteorite is very small indeed, but it does also highlight the fact that our solar system is possibly teeming with material from other solar systems. Perhaps even other galaxies.

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