The Earth will soon finally learn the truth about 3I/ATLAS after months of mothership rumors and speculation that the interstellar visitor is some form of advanced alien tech.
3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system, has baffled astronomers since its detection earlier this year. It arrived from deep space, glows strangely, spins rapidly, and may even emit its own light, fueling theories that it could be artificial.
NASA maintains it’s a comet, but Avi Loeb, the Harvard astrophysicist known for his controversial stance on interstellar visitors, puts the odds of it being alien technology at 40%.
3I/ATLAS’ identity will be revealed just before Halloween
We’ll find out who’s right on October 29, 2025, when the object swings closest to the Sun.
If 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, it should “disintegrate into fragments,” Loeb told the Daily Mail. But if it doesn’t, he fears it could release “a fleet of mini-probes to study multiple targets simultaneously.”
As the object approaches, European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer will observe it from roughly 125 million miles away. The probe will track whether the object breaks apart like a comet or does something entirely unexpected.
“During November and December, terrestrial observatories will also be able to monitor 3I/ATLAS and check whether it disintegrates like a natural comet or releases mini-probes as a technological mothership,” he said.
The Earth has “no plan” if 3I/ATLAS is a hostile alien threat
Loeb told Dexerto that humanity is dangerously unprepared for a first contact scenario.
“As far as I know, there are no protocols for responding to the discovery of functioning alien devices near Earth,” he warned. “A visitor in our backyard requires immediate attention because it could pose an imminent threat.”
While U.S. Congress has tasked NASA with tracking large space rocks, Loeb says alien technology would be “far less predictable” and we currently have no contingency plan.
He has submitted a white paper to United Nations calling for an international committee to handle potential threats from interstellar objects.
The warning comes as other alleged alien discoveries make headlines, such as NASA announcing its strongest evidence yet that ancient alien life may have existed on Mars.
Whether or not 3I/ATLAS actually is an aliens, as some may want to believe, we should know by Halloween. Let’s just hope that, given how unprepared the world is, if they are aliens, they come in peace.
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