CNEOS 2014-01-08

CNEOS 2014-01-08 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 Abraham Loeb, and this was published in 2022. Other astronomers doubt this, and still other experts found Earth-related explanations for the purported meteorite impact instead.