A prominent Harvard physicist has planned an ambitious expedition to Papua New Guinea to search for the remnants of a meteorite that he thinks could be an alien probe.

Avi Loeb announced that he is organizing the $1.5 million mission to the Pacific island nation to find fragments from CNEOS1 2014-01-08, which slammed into Earth in 2014 after a journey from outside our solar system.

“Within a couple of months, I will be leading an expedition to collect the fragments of the first interstellar meteor. This meteor is the first near-Earth object ever detected by humans from outside the solar system,” he wrote on Medium.

The scientist — who wrote “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” in 2021 — said the meteorite, which is made up of an extremely hard material, may not be a meteorite at all.

Loeb described the expedition as justified but not without risk, the Daily Beast reported.

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