This object is older than the solar system by 3 billion years.
Digital platforms have been abuzz in recent days after an interstellar object with strange behavior reached its closest point to the Sun as it passed through “our” Solar System on Wednesday, October 29, and managed to attract the attention of scientists thanks to its eccentric orbit, which is five times the threshold between fly-by objects and those trapped in the solar system. gravity.
There are two versions: for many it is a comet; For others, it is an interstellar object whose characteristics are attributed to extraterrestrial systems.
“3I/ATLAS” was the name of what was discovered in the middle of this year, and owes its name to the Asteroid Last Collision Alert System (ATLAS), a robotic astronomical reconnaissance observatory operating from Hawaii in the United States (US), which saw a body with a strange tail.
On July 21, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope received an image taken by the Keck Space-Wide Spectrograph (KCWI) in the wavelength range of 0.3425 to 0.55 micrometers, which showed signs of a strange expansion of the luminous antitail toward the sun, making it difficult to estimate its trajectory.
Extraterrestrial technology
Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard, claims that 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary comet and asserts that it is a kind of “Trojan horse” of extraterrestrial technology, because its trajectory, close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, is more intentional than scientifically probable.
Despite strong questions about his theory about a possible alien craft, Loeb defended his analysis and supported it with a theological principle: “Blaise Pascal (French mathematician and physicist) argued that it is better to believe in God, because the consequences of not doing so, if he exists, are worse than the consequences of being wrong.” In this sense, he stated that “a warning about the risk of 3I/ATLAS makes more sense than ignoring it”.
As if straight out of a Hollywood movie, an Israeli astrophysicist claimed in 2024 that “the messiah will come from space,” claims that have earned him plenty of laughs during interviews in recent months.
🚨 IS NASA HIDING INSANE TECHNIQUES? Harvard’s Avi Loeb just EXPOSED them on NewsNation for not keeping crystal clear images of the massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS 🛸
Or should the question be asked, why is Avi Loeb trying to convince everyone that it is anything but a comet?
This is… pic.twitter.com/kvHMrgtgjG
— Interstellar (@InterstellarUAP) October 31, 2025
unusual composition
While memes, drums and tiktoks multiply as part of the satirical scene, a chapter from one of the films “Don’t Look Up” is developing at the same time, where actor Leonardo DiCaprio plays a physicist who tries to warn humanity about a collision with a comet.
Based on science fiction, comets in the solar system are composed mostly of frozen water, other ices, and dust. Meanwhile, 3I/ATLAS contains an unusually high proportion of carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) with a large amount of metallic nickel in its composition, which attracted the attention of European Space Agency (ESA) astrophysicist Michael Kuypers.
Kuypers, quoted by European media, explained that the peculiarities of this object, which is 3,000 million years older than the solar system, “was not formed in our solar system, but in another point of the galaxy,” he emphasized in his statements.
NASA rules out the threat
On the other hand, NASA’s silence is unusual to perceive; In an August publication, the agency, which faced a US government shutdown, said the comet posed no threat to the planet and said it would disappear into the universe.
“Although the comet poses no threat to Earth, NASA’s space telescopes help support the agency’s ongoing mission to find, track, and better understand solar system objects,” the US agency said in a statement.
“Since the object originates from outside our solar system, it is only passing through (…) we use all the instruments at our disposal to observe it before it disappears again into the cosmic darkness,” he added.
This Milky Way body, which contains billions of stars, including the Sun, is the third body of interstellar origin after the discovery of 1|/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Barysava in 2019.
