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5 min readIn the late summer of 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, each carrying a Golden Record—a 12-inch phonograph disc with images, nature sounds, classical music, and greetings in 55 languages. The message was meant for any intelligent life that might find the probes millions of years in the future, out in interstellar space. But what if we are not the only civilization to have had this idea? According to one Harvard scientist, an alien probe might be visiting our solar system right now.
The Anomalies of 3I Atlas
On July 1, 2025, a telescope in Chile, part of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), spotted an object moving through deep space at 130,000 miles per hour. It was named Comet 3I Atlas—the third interstellar object ever detected, after 'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. The "I" stands for interstellar, meaning it originated outside our solar system. Most comets orbit the Sun, but 3I Atlas is on a different path: it is moving so fast that it will fly past the Sun, shoot out of our solar system, and keep going.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Voyager’s Golden Record and the Alien Probe Question** - The episode opens with the Voyager probes and their Golden Record, then poses the question: what if another civilization sent a similar probe, and one is visiting our solar system right now?
- 2 (03:56) **Discovery of Comet 3I Atlas** - A NASA-funded telescope in Chile detects an interstellar object moving at 130,000 mph, later named Comet 3I Atlas.
- 3 (05:47) **Dr. Avi Loeb’s Anomalies and the Alien Technology Hypothesis** - Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb points out three anomalies in 3I Atlas: extreme brightness, an unlikely trajectory past three planets, and a missing cometary tail.
- 4 (09:30) **NASA’s Hubble Image and the Scientific Pushback** - NASA releases a Hubble image showing a teardrop-shaped dust cocoon, suggesting the object is smaller than Loeb estimated and likely a comet.
- 5 (12:28) **The Dark Forest Hypothesis and the November 2025 Panic** - Loeb’s paper mentions the "dark forest hypothesis," fueling online theories that 3I Atlas could be an alien mothership arriving in November 2025.
- 6 (20:11) **The Oumuamua Precedent** - Loeb made similar claims about the first interstellar object, Oumuamua (2017), suggesting it could be an artificial light sail.
- 7 (26:34) **The IM1 Meteorite and the Deep-Sea Expedition** - Loeb identifies a 2014 meteorite (IM1) as interstellar using classified military data, then leads an expedition to retrieve its fragments from the Pacific Ocean floor.
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Show Notes
In July 2025, researchers discovered an interstellar object entering our solar system. It’s only the third we’ve detected – ever – and it’s been dubbed Comet 3I/ATLAS. NASA says it does not pose a threat to us.
But one Harvard scientist suggests 3I/ATLAS isn’t necessarily a comet – there are too many anomalies. He says, this object may not be natural…it might be alien technology.
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