https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Steele#COVID-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Steele#COVID-19 In 2020, Steele, along with researcher N. Chand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Steele#COVID-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Steele#COVID-19 In 2020, Steele, along with researcher N. Chandra Wickramasinghe and others, claimed in ten research papers that COVID-19 originated from a meteor spotted as a bright fireball over the city of Songyuan in Northeast China on October 11, 2019, and that a fragment of the meteor landed in the Wuhan area, which started the first COVID-19 outbreaks. However, the researchers, including Steele, did not provide any direct evidence proving this theory.[1] The pseudonymous science blogger Neuroskeptic, writing in Astronomy magazine, called the meteor origin theory "so remarkable that it makes the others look boring by comparison".[1]