The research was published in March 2011 in the Journal of Cosmology by Richard B. Hoover, an engineer.
Fossils of ''S. aurorae'' (left) and ''S. orientalis'' (right) at the National Museum of Nature and Science | CI1 fossils | List of human evolution fossils | ''H. baitaigouensis'' fossils displayed in the Hong Kong Science Museum |
Since 1997, Richard B. Hoover has published numerous papers in scientific conference proceedings and in peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and book chapters describing controversial evidence and claims for the existence of indigenous microfossils of cyanobacteria and other filamentous prokaryotes in the CI1 (Ivuna and Orgueil) and CM2 (Murchison and Murray) carbonaceous meteorites.