A scientist who believes coronavirus came from outer space by METEOR has alleged that it is the METEOR released viral particles.

Once in the upper stratosphere, the virus either fell to Earth or got caught up in the stratospheric air currents that circle the Earth, he told MailOnline.From here, the virus has spread along ‘a global band of between 40–60° latitude north’, with all the ‘main strong cases’ appearing ‘exactly along that range’, professor added.

Infectious disease experts have debunked Professor Wickramasinghe’s claim, however, noting that COVID-19 is similar to other known coronaviruses. This, they explained, would suggest that it was also transmitted to humans from animals — not from a recent meteorite fall. 

‘The sudden outbreak of a new coronavirus is very likely to have a space connection,’ Professor  told media. A meteor was seen as a blazing, bright fireball flying across the sky in the north-east of the country at around 12:16 am on October 11, 2019.The space rock — which reportedly shone so brightly that it made the night sky look light day — is thought to have disintegrated in the atmosphere.

‘The earth is not a disconnected entity in the biosphere — we are connected to the external universe,’ Professor  said.

In the eighties, he proved that some of the dust found in interstellar space contained organic material, most of which was carbon.

Professor Wickramasinghe has previously suggested that other deadly diseases came from an extraterrestrial source — including the 1918 flu pandemic, certain strains of mad cow disease and polio, and SARS, which he connected to a 2002 meteorite that exploded over the border of China and Russia.