"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

The meteor IM1 first caught Loeb’s attention through an obscure NASA fireball database under the code “CNEOS 2014-01-08.” ...

The aliens from that year's other timeless sci-fi classic most definitely do, however, because this unnamed race of interstellar travellers arrive on Earth with an agenda of friendship, ...