NASA Responds To Harvard Astrophysicist’s Claim That A Comet Might Actually Be An Alien Spacecraft

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00:00NASA responds to Harvard astrophysicists claim that a comet might actually be an alien spacecraft.

00:07Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, former Harvard astronomy chair and Galileo project head,

00:12often claims unconventional views on aliens and UFOs. His latest suggests,

00:18Comet 3i Atlas might be an alien spacecraft. Loeb's July paper posits its evading telescope

00:24scrutiny by orbiting the sun and moving faster than our top rockets, sparking potential concerns.

00:30The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for

00:35humanity and would possibly require defensive measures to be undertaken, though these might

00:40prove futile, he wrote in another article. NASA, which, as one would expect, has been studying

00:46Comet 3i Atlas and has come to their own conclusions. Not surprisingly, they don't match up with Professor

00:52Loeb's ideas. It looks like a comet. It does comet things it very, very strongly resembles in just

00:59about every way, the comets that we know, said Tom Statler, NASA lead scientist for solar system

01:04small bodies. It has some interesting properties that are a little bit different from our solar

01:10system comets, but it behaves like a comet. Evidence overwhelmingly supports it being a natural object,

01:16not alien-made. Comets consist of dust and ice, reacting unpredictably to solar heating.

01:21In our solar system, sudden brightening can occur if particular ice pockets sublimate rapidly,

01:27releasing dust. Experts utilized these events to gather further data.

01:32Statler noted interstellar comets like 3i-slash-Atlas aren't new. We've just recently started

01:38discovering them, identifying only three so far. The other two interstellar objects discovered are

01:43Oumuamua and comet Borisov. Loeb claimed Oumuamua, a 1,300-foot-long asteroid appearing in 2017,

01:52could be an alien spacecraft. He also suggested the universe might be lab-created by an advanced

01:58civilization and that aliens might travel through hidden dimensions.