Harvard Professor Claims The 3I/ATLAS Isn't A Comet, It's Actually An Alien Ship With Visible Thrusters

An extraordinary claim has surfaced: Harvard professor Avi Loeb suggests that the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be an 'alien ship' employing seven visible thrusters as it nears the Sun.

According to the report from the Daily Star, the object appears to release 'seven distinct jets' with a 'large glowing halo' as it nears the sun.

The article describes the object based on stacked images showing 'large glowing halo extending out to half a million kilometres' with at least '7 distinct jets.'

In a published article, Professor Loeb, a noted figure in the search for extraterrestrial technosignatures at Harvard University, has described 3I/ATLAS as a 'gift from interstellar space' and highlighted what he sees as ten anomalies that separate this visitor from familiar comets.

Among his concerns are the object's trajectory, which closely aligns with the ecliptic plane, the mass being unusually large compared to known interstellar objects, and significant non-gravitational acceleration having reportedly been observed.

Loeb specifically writes: 'The 10 anomalies motivated me to propose the possibility that 3I/ATLAS is an extraterrestrial technological product of another civilisation in the Milky Way galaxy.'