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Seismic signal that pointed to alien technology was actually a passing truck

10 Mar 2024 Hamish Johnston
Truck road on Manus Island
Keep on trucking: the area near the seismic station in Manus Island, showing the seismometer and truck route. (Courtesy: Roberto Molar Candanosa and Benjamin Fernando/Johns Hopkins University, with imagery from CNES/Airbus via Google)
In January 2014 a meteor streaked across the sky above the Western Pacific Ocean. The event was init

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