'Alien tech' purportedly discovered by Harvard team might just be coal waste

A Harvard professor and his team claim that tiny balls from the Pacific Ocean may be evidence of alien technology. A new report disputes the idea.

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00:03 For the first time in human history,

00:23 we put our hands on materials from an object, very

00:28 large object that came from outside the solar system.

00:31 The implications would be that we are not alone,

00:40 that we have a neighbor, just like going out to our backyard

00:43 and finding a tennis ball that was thrown by a neighbor.

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