Massive Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Sparks Debate – Harvard Astronomer: ‘Could Be Alien Tech’
A Visitor From Beyond the Solar System Astronomers around the world are buzzing over the appearance of comet 3I/ATLAS, an object that entered our Solar System from interstellar space. This cosmic interloper – formally designated 3I/ATLAS (with “3I” signifying the third interstellar object ever recorded) – was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile reuters.com esa.int. Its discovery was quickly confirmed by observatories worldwide when its highly eccentric trajectory signaled an origin beyond our Solar System esa.int. Every other comet, asteroid, planet, and moon we’ve observed shares a common birth in