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00:00 Okay, so it is the age-old questions.
00:02 Do aliens exist?
00:04 Our next guest says we may know that answer in less than a month because he's found possible
00:09 evidence of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
00:12 Harvard science professor Avi Loeb joins us now with more on his groundbreaking study.
00:18 Avi, good morning to you.
00:20 You know, you said that there's a chance these fragments could be artificial.
00:24 How big of a chance are we talking here?
00:26 Are you saying 50/50 or more?
00:29 Thanks for having me.
00:30 Well, this object was moving very fast, faster than 95% of the stars near the sun.
00:35 And it also had material strength tougher than all the rocks we had seen over the past
00:39 decade in the NASA catalog.
00:42 So there is a chance.
00:43 I wouldn't quantify it.
00:45 I would just say it's quite possible that it's different than a rock.
00:48 And what we are doing now is analyzing the composition of the molten droplets that fell
00:54 off this object when it was exposed to the fireball that it created as it moved through
00:58 the air.
00:59 And we are getting some interesting results, but I cannot detail them until we've put them
01:04 together in a paper, scientific paper that we hope to make publicly available to everyone
01:10 within a month or so.
01:12 So it was interesting when you said that it was moving faster than 95% of the nearby stars
01:19 that's near the sun and made of a tough material.
01:24 In layman's terms, a little more of a layman term for me here, what does that mean, Avi?
01:29 I mean, are you saying that you do think that this is not just a typical meteor that we're
01:34 usually seeing just drop into the ocean?
01:37 Well, it's definitely not a rock of a type that we are familiar with.
01:42 And that's based on the US government data on this meteorite.
01:47 And just think of Voyager, if it were to collide in a billion years with another planet, it
01:53 would appear as a meteor, but it would be made of materials much tougher than rock.
01:59 And moreover, it would move faster than typical rocks because it had some propulsion.
02:05 So that's the possibility that we are exploring.
02:08 So okay, say these, this is hypothetical, obviously, say these results come back and
02:11 it is an alien spacecraft, I guess is what I'll call it.
02:16 It's strange even having those words come out of my mouth since it's not been really
02:19 spoken about to this degree.
02:21 But what would the protocol be for that?
02:23 I mean, how would that change the world and us going forward?
02:28 Well, it would mean that we have a neighbor, that we are not alone, just like realizing
02:34 that, you know, when you go out to your backyard and you find a tennis ball that was thrown
02:39 by a neighbor, you realize, yes, I do have a neighbor.
02:43 That's the basic change to our perspective about our place in the universe.
02:49 And the question, the next question is, of course, is that civilization much more advanced
02:54 than we are?
02:55 Because then we can learn from them.
02:57 But it would be a fundamental change.
02:59 And as you know, there was an eyewitness testimony at the U.S. House of Representatives just
03:07 ten days ago.
03:10 One of the witnesses, David Brush, claims the U.S. government may have in its possession
03:15 such materials.
03:17 We don't know if it's real or not.
03:19 For that, we need the government to step forward and provide more evidence.
03:22 And the fundamental question is, is it easier for us to learn what lies at the bottom of
03:27 the Pacific Ocean from interstellar space than it is to learn from politicians in Washington,
03:33 D.C., what we know already?
03:35 Yeah, I'm most interested in what someone like you has to say about this type of situation,
03:40 not necessarily the government.
03:42 But as you've seen, lately in the news in the past couple years, we've seen more and
03:46 more of the military showing these very interesting objects flying in the sky.
03:52 Avi, should this scare people?
03:54 No, not at all.
03:56 I think we should welcome it, because it will be information that we can learn from.
04:03 And it will inspire us to explore space.
04:06 It may make us better.
04:08 Instead of fighting with each other, perhaps it will be a wakeup call for us to realize
04:14 that there are more important things in life than fighting with other people.
04:18 You know, like the third dimension of space will inspire us to put our resources into
04:24 science, technology and go out there.
04:26 I'll tell you what, I'm not quite sure why this is not the top story headlining everywhere,
04:32 but I'll tell you what, if it comes back and this is an alien spaceship, I would bet my
04:36 life that it would be the top story.
04:38 Avi Loeb, thank you so much.
04:40 And we're interested to see what you come up with.
04:43 I'm Steve Doocy.
04:44 I'm Brian Kilmeade.
04:45 And I'm Ainsley Earhart.
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