""This composition is anomalous compared to human-made alloys, known asteroids and familiar astrophysical sources," Loeb said." by Ian DiMartino via sputniknews The IM1 object is now believed to be the first interstellar object recovered by scientists. Two Harvard scientists claim an object that crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014 came from outside of our solar system and may be "artificial in origin" - they have not ruled out it may be a part of an alien spacecraft. NASA recently said the object, dubbed IM1, almost certainly originated from outside of our solar system, making it the first recovered interstellar object. Professor Avi Loeb, the former chair of Harvard's astronomy department and the founder of the Galileo Project, along with Harvard researcher Amir Siraj, announced their findings over the weekend. Officials had conducted a $1.5 million search of a 6.2 square mile area off the coast of Papua New Guinea, where the crashed object revealed strange metallic "spherules."