It was revealed from the government's top secret data that 'the first interstellar object in history' might have been observed before Oumuamua, and it was flying to the earth.



It was confirmed that the explosion observed over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was due to an

interstellar object flying from outside the solar system. Due to the conflict with the top secret data of the U.S. Department of Defense, this discovery, which had been buried until now, was discovered in 2017 and is said to be 'the first interstellar object flying from outside the solar system in the history of astronomical observation'. The Oumuamua record may be broken.

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On April 7, 2022, the official Twitter account of the American Space Command released a document stating that the astronomical phenomenon observed in 2014 was related to interstellar objects.



In a published document, 'A previously written paper on the meteor on January 8, 2014, reported that the meteor came from interstellar space with 99.999% confidence. This event was discovered about three years before the discovery of Oumuamua. Dr. Joel Moser, chief scientist of the American Space Command, examined it with relevant data obtained by the Department of Defense, and found it in the paper. It was confirmed that the estimated speed of the celestial body described was accurate enough to make the celestial body an interstellar celestial body. '

The paper mentioned in the document is the paper ' Discovery of meteors derived from interstellar matter ' published on arXiv, a preprint server that publishes pre-reviewed papers. According to Amir Siraj, Harvard University's Department of Astronomy, the lead author of the paper, the paper has been awaiting peer review and publication for years, but with the novelty of the discovery and data that the U.S. government has classified. It was said that it was not officially released due to the balance of.

However, because the content of the paper was confirmed by the United States Space Command this time, it is possible that interstellar objects were observed before Oumuamua announced in 2017 and Comet Borisov discovered in 2019. It was confirmed that the sex was high.



Ironically, Oumuamua was discovered and became a big topic for Siraj et al.'S success in this discovery. Abraham Loeb of Harvard University's Department of Astronomy, who is also famous for advocating that 'Oumuamua is the work of extraterrestrial life forms,' told Siraj, 'From a database published by NASA's Near-Earth Object Research Center. Let's verify the possibility that other interstellar objects are flying to the earth. '

Then, when Siraj, who noticed the explosion observed over Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014, analyzed this phenomenon in detail, the explosion was a fierce celestial body with a diameter of only 45 cm and a speed of 210,000 km / h. It turned out that it was due to the fact that it flew to the earth at a high speed. Siraj et al. 'The origin of the celestial body is the deep part of the planetary system (other than the solar system) or the disk of the Milky Way galaxy is thick because it greatly exceeds the average speed of ordinary celestial bodies flying around in the solar system and the direction in which the celestial body flew. It may be a star in the area where it is. '

However, because the sensor that observed the explosion used the same technology as the nuclear explosion monitoring technology operated by the Department of Defense, Siraj et al. Could not confirm the accuracy of the calculation by themselves, and the paper is supported. He said he was floating in the air without it. After that, the paper went into the hands of various government agencies such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA, and was finally confirmed by the chief scientist of the United States Space Command, and the discovery of Siraj et al. It was decided.

'The fact that there are interstellar objects that have flown to Earth and we know where their debris is is exciting,' said Siraj. 'I've already searched the ocean floor off Papua New Guinea. , We have begun to consider whether it is possible to find fragments of interstellar objects. '

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