NASA hosted a special press conference yesterday to unveil images and to answer questions around the mysterious interstellar 3I/Atlas object that’s caught the attention of the public and the imagination of some scientists that believe this may be an alien spacecraft.
NASA only shared very blurry or very pixelated images of the object..
3i/ATLAS update:
The first image is from an amateur, ground based astronomer.
The second is from NASA, the largest space agency in history.
Keep in mind that we were told the budget issue and government closure was delaying images coming out. We had to rely on amateur astronomers or other countries..
We all waited holding our breath for the big giant reveal from NASA of the images that would absolutely showcase this being a comment. Instead the mystery now deepens because NASA gave us things that clearly are worse than what even amateur astronomers gave us.
The Northern Lights are visible all across the United States tonight! If you’ve got clear skies, get outside now and look up. Brave the cold, the wind, whatever weather you’ve got — because this is one of the most powerful solar flares we’ve seen in years.
A solar storm warning is in effect, and the auroras are reaching farther south than usual — visible to the naked eye in places that rarely see them. This is a dramatic, historic event unfolding right now. The Sun has delivered a rare geomagnetic storm, painting the skies in waves of color and light.
This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime nights — don’t miss it! 🌌
The photo appears to show a plume of some kind of material on one side, along with emissions off the opposite side.
Cue Harvard scientist, Avi Loeb.. he believes these images of the mysterious interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS could be additional evidence of a type of jet engine or propulsion system on board an alien spacecraft. In recent weeks, the object has captivated scientists’ attentions and peoples’ imaginations on what exactly this thing moving through our solar system is.
And as new imagery has become available, Loeb continues to express concern that this object, which should near Earth in mid-December, may not be a comet but rather an alien spacecraft instead.
MORE..
In his blog on Medium, with new imagery in hand, Loeb writes, “The image shows two anti-tail jets out to 10 arcminutes towards the Sun accompanied by a longer collimated jet, extending away from the Sun out to an angular separation of 30 arcminutes, roughly the diameter of the Sun or the Moon. At the current distance of 3I/ATLAS from Earth, 326 million kilometers, these angular extents correspond to spatial sizes of 0.95 million kilometers for the sunward anti-tail jets and 2.85 million kilometers for the tail jet away from the Sun. This enormous spatial scale is three orders of magnitude larger than the scale of the glowing halo around 3I/ATLAS in the Hubble Space Telescope image from July 21, 2025.”..
Avi Loeb is back — at this point he’s basically our best friend in the UFO world. In his latest review of the 3I/ATLAS comet, he indicates that the newest photographs show evidence of thrusters. Yes, thrusters. And there are even claims that additional “ships” may have separated from a so-called “main mothership.”
On the surface, it all sounds like pure science fiction. Total fantasy. But here we are in 2025. We’ve all lived through enough strangeness to know that nothing is off the table anymore. And the thing about Loeb is — he actually backs this with data.
Loeb writes in his blog
“Given that a large number of jets appear in many directions, the reported non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS requires much more than 10–20% of its initial mass to have been ejected near perihelion. Only a fraction of that mass carries an excess momentum in a preferred direction. This means that the cloud of debris around 3I/ATLAS must represent a substantial fraction of its initial mass for a natural comet. However, technological thrusters could give the object a boost with much less mass jetted out at a higher speed.”
He then asks the simple but massive question:
“Is the network of jets associated with pockets of ice on the surface of a natural cometary nucleus, or are they coming from a set of jet thrusters used for navigation of a spacecraft?”
And the answer Loeb gives?
“We do not know.”
3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, 2025.
Stacked telescope images reportedly show a “large glowing halo extending out to half a million kilometers” with at least seven distinct jet structures. That’s not typical comet behavior. That’s weird behavior. According to Loeb — Harvard astrophysicist, not random guy on Reddit — this thing is acting unlike anything we’ve documented before.
I’m not sure if the world is paying attention. We are. And a handful of scientists and space-watchers are. But this feels like a much bigger deal than it’s being treated as.
Even if 3I/ATLAS turns out to be a completely natural comet, the oddities alone suggest something rare — something we don’t commonly see in our solar system. That alone is exciting, possibly even paradigm-shifting.
But if Loeb is right… and if these jets are not natural outgassing… and if this object is maneuvering…
Well, then we’re looking at something even more profound.
A lot of people have laughed at Loeb over the past few years. Some still are. But the more images that come in, the less funny this comet looks. There’s something off about it. Something that doesn’t fit.
Avi Loeb and others are stating it is due to the fact that Atlas is an alien craft..
Well maybe it is.
But for now the official story continues to be the shut down..
“NASA is a part of the federal government, which is currently shut down. Communications that do not pertain to the safety of property or life are not excepted,” read a statement sent to LADbible from the agency.
“Imagery will be released once the government reopens.”
Hopefully, that will be before the comet passes the sun and heads back out into space.
So it would be assumed we WILL see Atlas at some point. Maybe edited? Then again.. the editors may be laid off right now, too..
AND JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT WE ONLY HAD ONE!
NASA QUIETLY LOGS ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR VISITOR
Comet C/2025 V1 just appeared in NASA’s official JPL database — and it’s NOT from our solar system.
Discovered Oct 29… nearly 100 confirmed observations already… and its orbit is hyperbolic — meaning it’s just passing through.
Here’s the wild part — it’s NOT connected to 3I/ATLAS, the other interstellar object now in motion.
That makes TWO unbound travelers moving through our neighborhood at the same time.
The comet Atlas — or maybe we should say “comet,” because things are getting weird — is back in the news again. For months now, Harvard Professor Avi Loeb has been talking about the strange anomalies surrounding Comet 3I/ATLAS. Researchers have noted unusual behavior, odd trajectories, and now we have the latest curveball.
Today, Loeb published a new analysis after reviewing the latest post-perihelion images released by NASA. And according to him…
There’s no comet tail.
That’s right. This object doesn’t appear to be producing the tail you’d expect at this stage. Which is, naturally, a little strange — considering that comets are known for having tails, especially when they get this close to the Sun. The whole thing raises more questions than answers.
Right now, it leaves us waiting. The comet (or object, or whatever label we want to cautiously use) makes its closest approach in December, which means we have plenty of time for more data, more analysis… and probably more conversation from Avi Loeb. He never shies away from wondering aloud when something looks out of place in the cosmos.
And honestly? We’re here for it.
Are we saying it’s aliens? No. Are we saying people who are saying it’s aliens are automatically wrong? Also no.
Let’s just say this: The universe is strange. Sometimes stranger than we’re prepared for.
So we’ll watch. We’ll wait. And we’ll see what this thing in the sky decides to show us next.
The Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared “bluer than the Sun” as it passed our local star — which could be signs of an alien craft “engine,” according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
The object’s non-gravitational acceleration was recorded by NASA this week and indicated a dramatic outgassing which would be expected from a comet — and would mean the object would lose half its mass and exhibit a huge plume of debris in the coming months.
Loab keeps making the scientific community a bit nervous openly discussing just how weird this comet is. Whether it is an alien on a ship or just something we have never experienced before –maybe new elements not on our periodic table!– it is exciting and really admirable that he was able to put this comet into the lexicon of our lives…
SPACE.COM has a more conservative approach to the blue light special:
“The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar r [radial distance], remains unclear,” the scientists behind the research, Qicheng Zhang of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC, write in a paper discussing the observation published on the research repository site arXiv.
The rapid brightening of 3I/ATLAS was observed by STEREO-A and STEREO-B, the twin spacecraft that make up Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), by the sun observing Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and the weather satellite GOES-19. The space-based observations were necessary because ground-based instruments won’t be able to observe the interstellar comet again until it passes out from the other side of the sun into its “postperihelion” phase, escaping the glare of starlight in mid- to late-November 2025.
Some have become worried about a path change..,
🚨 3I/ATLAS: TRAJECTORY CHANGE!
Based on Avi Loebs Paper
Did the math: 0.02 mm/s² × 50 days = 86 m/s Δv → enough to line up with Earth
The comet! The intrigue! The potential mothership.
The famed Harvard professor is continuing to make the rounds in various media circuits in preparation for next week’s near Earth encounter with whatever in the world 3I/Atlas really is..
And this time Avi Loeb is hinting that we should be prepared for a potential black swan event!
🚨 3I/ATLAS – Astrophysicist Avi Loeb ; Suspicious comet may herald ‘black swan event’: – Elizabeth Vargas Reports pic.twitter.com/zSxmmB5Z5Y
Reaction to Loeb has been mixed.. some love him. Some think he is punking us all.. He also divides the UFO world, even Richard C. Hoagland had tension on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis several weeks ago when Hoagland angrily asked Lewis to get Loeb on the air so he could debate him..
According to the New York Post, this is the first time ever that an interstellar object has been zoned in on by the group in a campaign, triggering one to sharpen skills and prepare the world for a possible threat from space.
Some of the bizarre behavior includes having an anti-tail, a particle jet that’s directed at the sun rather than vice versa, which is typically how comets flow. 3I/ATLAS also discharged a column that contained four grams of nickel per second, with no iron being present, which is unusual for comets, per The Post.
Before you get TOO Freaked over the threat.. In accordance, IAWN will be conducting a “comet campaign from November 27, 2025, through January 27, 2026”to refine methods for pinpointing ATLAS’ exact location.
“To prepare for the campaign, we will hold a workshop on techniques to correctly measure comet astrometry (a transformation without a change to a figure’s shape or size, such as rotation or reflection),” they wrote. Developing all weekend long in a space near you.
Some believe that IF this flare was earth directed, it could have been “the big one” …
We had a massive coronal mass ejection from what was likely an intense solar flare over the western limb of the sun this evening. Had this been Earth directed this could have been the big one. Will be curious if SWPC gives us some analysis on this. What a stunner. pic.twitter.com/w3nClsFvwB
Discovered Oct 29… nearly 100 confirmed observations already… and its orbit is hyperbolic — meaning it’s just passing through.
