00:00On a quiet Martian evening, NASA's Perseverance rover pointed its camera toward the red sky
00:06and captured something it was never meant to see.
00:10A bright streak, glowing across the thin Martian atmosphere.
00:14Not a star, not a satellite, something from beyond.
00:19The image came from the rover's right navigation camera, the nav cam.
00:24At first glance it looked like just a streak of light.
00:26But when scientists enhanced the frame, they realized the scale of what they were looking at.
00:33Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, the man who once claimed we've already seen alien technology in space,
00:40took one look and said the streak might represent an object 31,000 miles long.
00:46But then he paused and clarified that massive length wasn't real.
00:51It was a result of something far more fascinating motion during exposure.
00:55The rover may have just caught an object flying across the Martian sky in real time.
01:02NASA thinks this could be 3IATLA as an interstellar object that entered our solar system recently.
01:10A traveler.
01:11From another star.
01:13If confirmed, this would be the first time in human history we've seen an interstellar object,
01:19not from Earth, but from the surface of another planet.
01:23The Mars orbiter, equipped with a high-rise camera, also took its shot.
01:28Scientists are now studying those frames, pixel by pixel,
01:32searching for a single bright dot that could change how we see the universe.
01:37Avi Loeb estimates 3I Alice could be over 3 miles wide and weigh 33 billion tons.
01:42Just imagine that, a mountain-sized traveler speeding past Mars,
01:48possibly carrying clues from another solar system.
01:51For years, people have asked,
01:53Are we alone?
01:55Maybe.
01:56We were never meant to look for the answer on Earth,
01:58but on Mars.
02:00NASA hasn't confirmed it yet.
02:02But if this turns out to be real,
02:04Perseverance might have just made the most important discovery in human history.
02:08The question is, what was that object really, and where did it come from?
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