Spy Satellites data Confirmed Discovery of the First Interstellar Meteor

U.S. Strategic Command officials confirmed Wednesday that the crash of small meteor that crashed of the Northeast Coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014 actually traveled from another solar system before splash down.

With the official name, CNEOS 2014-01-08, the meteor crashed on Jan. 8, 2014 with an energy equivalent to about 110 metric tons of TNT into the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

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