So what do you think about this 3iAtlas comet behaving weirdly in our Solar System?

[PhillB]

It is very unusual for a number of reasons, it's speed, it's trajectory, it's behaviour (tail and spectrography) It doesn't act or behave like the comets we are familiar with, but, as others have said, this is only the 3rd interstellar object like this we have identified, which is a pretty small sample to take assumptions from.

My suspicion is that it is a 'natural' object rather than aliens.

For two reasons

1) It isn't actually confirmed as an interstellar object - there are reasons to believe it is an unusual long period comet from the Oort Cloud - i.e. the very edge of our solar system, half way to the nearest star.
2) It's speed - it is going fast - 124,000 mph, but even at that speed, travelling here from our nearest start would take 23,100 years - so either the aliens are very patient, or they love cruise control.

 

[argonsixar]

if an attractive bald headed Indian lady turns up, we will have our answer.

 

[legrandefromage]

Arthur C. Clarke had a good view on this with his books 'Rendezvous with Rama' and better still, with Gentry Lee (and my personal favourites); 'Times Eye' (ok), 'Sunstorm' (a rip snorting stomper of a story) and 'Firstborn' (so so). Unfortunately he died before the rest of the story arc was finished

As well as interstellar objects it also has AI, talking phones and foldable screens which all sounds vaguely familiar...

 

[LondonClassic]

If it were from an intelligent origin and that was detected - would we even be told about that? I have been fairly skeptical about all things UFO but I've been following the US congressional UAP hearings....it seems there are more than one whitsleblower from inside the US intelligence community who are saying 'there is a UAP/UFO crash retrieval project, its been going for years, we have recovered more than ten objects/vehicles/remains of vehicles.'

That is an astounding revelation. Its either true or made to feed some other agenda. Either way its still astounding! Did it make the BBC? Barely and I suspect most of the public don't know. And this isn't coming from stoners up on the mountain with a six skinner - this is from the inside, the straights, pilots, intelligence personnel with high clearances. You'd have thought there might be more noise about that....

So I don't think we'd even be told. It would need to land on the building site of Trump's ballroom to get news coverage. And look at the amount of sh1t Avi Loeb is getting for suggesting it *might* be of alien origin - he has been ostracised from the wider scientific community.

 

[grantoury]

The problem is that "advanced alien civilisations" is a speculative concept for which there is no proof.

 

[LondonClassic]

The problem is that "advanced alien civilisations" is a fictional concept and holds no scientific merit. For good reasons, despite the allure of that idea.

David Grusch ( whistleblower) outlined the US governement has a threshold to admitting that a UAP is the result of 'non human intelligence'. To deliver that assessement, someone from said government needs to visit the facility that made the craft and confirm that its not humans who made it.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I got over this at nine years old. Having seen numerous 'ufos' already, I discovered psilocybin.

 

[grantoury]

David Grusch ( whistleblower) outlined the US governement has a threshold to admitting that a UAP is the result of 'non human intelligence'. To deliver that assessement, someone from said government needs to visit the facility that made the craft and confirm that its not humans who made it.

There are so many questons to be raised, why has it all remained secret when he speaks of footballfield sized crafts, why does this only occur in the US, why would it be kept a secret when we live in a society that thrives on the free exchange of ideas and the universe is kind of an open book (even without psychotropics), and why is all of his info third hand and is he unable to freely share proof? There is too much to discredit these claims to take them seriously.

 

[benjabbi]

If it's aliens then I predict the swift invention, followed closely by a worldwide shortage, of the lockable butt plug.

 

[bikeworkshop]

They will only show themselves when they have captured every single midwesterner and done full internal examinations before returning them to their local walmart.
That's going to take decades.