CNEOS 2014-01-08

CNEOS 2014-01-08, also known as Interstellar meteor 1 (IM1), was a 0.45 m (1.5 ft) meteor that impacted Earth on 8 January 2014 near the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea. It was claimed to be an interstellar object in a 2019 preprint by astronomers Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb, and this was published in 2022. This was supported by the U.S. Space Command in 2022 based on the object's velocity relative to the Sun. NASA and other astronomers doubt this, and still other experts found Earth-related explanations for the purported meteorite impact instead.