A top boffin has claimed that he has found the remnants of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Professor Avi Loeb is part of Harvard University's Galileo Project, which was set up to find aliens and alien stuff on Earth.

And having spent the last two weeks searching the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, he believes he has found 50 tiny iron sphere-shaped fragments from a meteor that slammed into the water near the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014.

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Called IM1, the meteorite exploded over the ocean at around 3.05am on January 9.

And now Loeb and his team have recovered parts of it.

He said: “The spherules were found primarily along the most likely path of IM1.

“Given IM1's high speed and anomalous material strength its source must have been a natural environment different from the solar system, or an extraterrestrial technological civilization

"We found that its material strength must be at least a few times bigger than all other space rocks, 272 of them [at the time] in the same catalogue (made by NASA).

“We never received a package at our doorstep from a cosmic neighbour. This could be the first time humans put their hands on interstellar material.”

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The team found the spherules, as they are now being called, across 22 different searches of the area.

In a recent diary entry on Medium about the voyage, Professor Loeb said that he was hoping to know more about what the objects are made up of at some point this week.

He also noted that the ship used for the voyage – Silver Star – had a giant magnet on which was used for the search, but it kept being covered in “black powder”.

At first, he claims, he thought it was “volcanic ash”.

He added: “But within a week we realized that our signal is embedded in it in the form of metallic marbles of sub-millimeter size and a milligram mass."

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