Avi Loeb’s Interstellar Trash

Does a mysterious explosion have alien origins?

Photo by Javier Miranda on Unsplash

At the time few people noticed the explosion. Partly that was because it happened in the middle of the ocean, far from any inhabited land, and partly because it detonated at three in the morning, when most sensible people were asleep. Military sensors, however, do not sleep, and since they track much of what happens in the Western…