OK, so probably some of you have heard of Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who has become somewhat notorious for being an actually credentialed version of Giorgio Tsoukalos (you know, the “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens” guy). A few years ago, Loeb got a lot of attention for saying that interstellar interloper Omuamua maybe could have been an alien spacecraft, or at least powered by a light sail. By that point, Omuamua had whipped around the sun and was on its way out of the Solar System on its cold, lonely journey to who knows where. So of course it couldn’t be confirmed in any way possible.

More recently (last year) Loeb and one of his students said that they’d pulled materials from the ocean they said were related to a meteor fireball from 2014. Of course, lots of raised eyebrows. Now new research from Johns Hopkins says, um, *probably not*.

Here’s the article header as a photo because, well, it made me laugh:

Link: hub.jhu.edu

Part of me thinks that finding aliens (or having them visit) might be cool, but the other part of me is “oh fffffffffff, they’re invaders and we’re dead.” So yeah, mixed emotions.