Avi Loeb to Newsmax: ‘Keep Our Eyes Open’ on Origins of Interstellar Object

An interstellar object coming close to Earth could be alien technology first detected by scientists decades ago, Harvard University physicist Avi Loeb told Newsmax on Thursday.

The object, called 3I/ATLAS, was detected moving through the solar system on July 1 and is expected to pass Mars on Friday at an extremely high velocity.

In a Medium blog post last week, Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. professor of science at Harvard, noted that the comet is “unusually massive … with an unusual chemical composition on an unusually rare trajectory,” and posited that it could be “alien technology” that emitted the famous “Wow! Signal” in 1977.

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