Rare interstellar object the size of Manhattan could be an alien probe: Harvard scientists
New York Post
It’s probe-ably nothing.
The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to believe it’s really an alien probe.
NASA discovered 31/ATLAS on July 1, speeding through the inner solar system at 140,000 miles per hour according to observations from the ATLAS telescope in Chile — with experts clueless as to where it originated.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggested in a new paper that the object — only the third interstellar object ever detected — could be an intelligently directed alien craft observing Earth with possibly hostile intentions.
The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but instead a directed craft.
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