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Physicist Avi Loeb, right, is on stage with physicist Stephen Hawking and others, who are unrelated to this article, in New York in 2016.
  • A Harvard professor discovered mysterious metal-rich spherules at the bottom of the ocean. 
  • Because of their unique composition, he controversially claimed they were alien in nature. 
  • Many scientists refuted this claim, and one now thinks they may just be industrial waste.

A Harvard professor's claims that metallic balls discovered under the ocean may have been made by aliens have been called into question yet again.