Monica Grady

Monica Grady is a British planetary scientist and astrobiologist, born in 1958, specializing in meteorites and the search for extraterrestrial life. She served as Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University and previously curated the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum, overseeing Britain's national collection. In UAP/UFO-related contexts, Grady critiqued Avi Loeb's 2023 claims of recovering interstellar meteor fragments from the ocean floor, potentially from an extraterrestrial starship, stating the evidence was 'rather shaky' and more plausibly explained by terrestrial pollution like coal ash. She has contributed to discussions on extraterrestrial life, including presentations on satellites of giant planets like Europa as potential habitats. No direct involvement in military or government UFO programs is documented; her role remains as a skeptical scientific commentator on extraterrestrial artifact claims.