‘Hostile’ alien spacecraft attacked Earth in November? Foreign research teams put forward surprising views, which the scientific community refuted
“Hostile alien spacecraft” will launch an attack on Earth in November this year? According to a report by the New York Post on the 25th, recently, a controversial study on mysterious interstellar objects has sparked global heated debate. A research team of scientists put forward a surprising point in a paper released on July 16: The newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on July 1 this year may be a “hostile alien spacecraft” or will attack Earth in November. However, the international scientific community poured cold water on this statement and believed that the object was just an ordinary interstellar comet.
“If this hypothesis is confirmed, the consequences for humans could be extremely severe,” the researchers wrote in the controversial paper. The New York Post quoted the Live Science website as reporting that the object, named 3I/ATLAS, is rushing towards the sun at a speed of more than 130,000 miles per hour (about 210,000 kilometers per hour). In less than 24 hours, the mysterious object was confirmed as an interstellar object, and preliminary observations suggested that it may be a comet up to 15 miles in diameter-larger than Manhattan. However, the researchers insisted in the paper that the object’s ultra-high speed and unique angle of entry into the solar system suggest that it may be a disguised “alien spy device.”
The New York Post said that one of the researchers, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb, said that the object would be abnormally close to Jupiter, Mars and Venus, making it easier for alien civilizations to secretly deploy “spy devices.” More importantly, when the object reaches perihelion in late November, it will be in a blind spot for Earth observation. “This may have been done deliberately to avoid dropping devices onto Earth when the object is at its brightest or to facilitate alien devices from this hidden location.”
Reported that the research team also cited the “Dark Forest Hypothesis” in science fiction to warn that alien creatures may be hiding themselves to avoid attacks by hunters. “If this is indeed a product of extraterrestrial technology, humans may need to activate defensive measures,” Loeb said, but the real dilemma is that the speed of 3I/ATLAS far exceeds the limit of human spacecraft, and the speed of existing rockets on earth is only three-thirds of it., it is impossible to intercept at all.
However, the scientific community poured cold water on the above hypothesis and questioned it. “All evidence suggests that this is just an ordinary interstellar comet, just like the billions of comets ejected from our solar system,” said Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Canada who studies solar system dynamics. Chris Lintoth, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, severely criticized,”Astronomers around the world are excited about the arrival of 3I/ATLAS and are working together to use advanced telescopes to study this ‘visitor’,””The so-called term ‘alien artificial object’ is ridiculous and an insult to this research work.”
The New York Post stated that in fact, even Loeb himself admitted that the hypothesis was far-fetched:”There is no doubt that the most likely result at present is that 3I/ATLAS is just an ordinary interstellar comet.” The research team also specifically stated that the non-peer-reviewed paper was “based on an extraordinary but verifiable hypothesis that is worthy of analysis and reporting” and that “the process of exploring hypotheses, whether effective or not, is academically interesting.”