Harvard researchers are 99.999% certain the object was interstellar. But their paper on the finding was being turned down, because the pair only had a private conversation with an anonymous U.S. government employee to confirm the accuracy of the data.
The U.S. Space Command seemed to confirm a claim that a meteor from outside the solar system had entered Earth’s atmosphere, but other scientists and NASA are still not convinced.
The United States Space Command verified the first interstellar meteor that crash-landed on Earth. It was discovered by top Harvard astronomers Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb.