Harvard Scientist Accuses NASA of Coverup About Mysterious Comet

NASA will say nothing until their arm is twisted.

One AU is around 150 million kilometers.  A 30 million kilometer passage is 20 Percent of all that and is close by standards of the inner solar system.

Everything else is a coincidence of vcourse and one report tells us that it has been slowing and will stay in system.  So far is walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and so forth.  All this means that the probability of it been an alien artifact, or alternatively a human artifact launched back in TIME is not zero.

It it stays in system, it will take several orbits at least to establish its final orbit.  I specutlate that this could be a Terraforming Machina for Venus.  Or in the end it could just be an other comet of sorts.  At least we know the stakes somewhat.

What is big though is that if alien, sublight transits are necessary in certain cases.  this is important to know rather than speculate..

Loeb figured out this object comes directly from the WOW signal location back in 1977.  Just another impossible coincidence folks.

Harvard Scientist Accuses NASA of Coverup About Mysterious Comet

Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 - 01:45 PM

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-scientist-accuses-nasa-coverup-about-mysterious-comet

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has once again leveled accusations against NASA during an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience, this time claiming the agency is deliberately withholding a key image of the mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

The alleged photograph, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows the comet when it passed within 30 million kilometers of Mars, which is a rare close encounter for an object originating from outside our solar system, according to Loeb, who chaired the Harvard’s Department of Astronomy from 2011 to 2020.

Loeb also said that he directly contacted the HiRISE principal investigator to request access to the data, but his request fell on deaf ears.

“I wrote to the principal investigator of HiRISE, asking, 'Can I get the data? I’m a scientist,'” said Loeb, who said he received "no response" from NASA.

The comet, designated 3I/ATLAS, has exhibited several unusual characteristics that have fueled speculation. Unlike typical comets, it displays jet-like emissions directed toward the Sun rather than away from it, a phenomenon that defies standard models of cometary outgassing, the New York Post reports. Additionally, 3I/ATLAS lacks a visible cometary tail and has been observed spouting nickel without accompanying iron that compositions not commonly seen in natural solar system bodies.

Loeb has previously speculated that the Manhattan-sized object could be of alien origin, though he tempers this with caution. In his view, the more probable explanation is "terrestrial stupidity" rather than evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Nonetheless, the comet's non-gravitational acceleration and its trajectory raise questions. Loeb has suggested these features could indicate reconnaissance activity if the object were artificial, though he emphasizes this as a low-probability scenario.

“If 3I/ATLAS is a massive mothership, it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and ultimately exit the Solar system,” Loeb wrote in a blog post in September. “In that case, the Oberth maneuver might apply to the mini-probes it releases at perihelion towards Solar system planets.”

“Science is guided by evidence and not by expectations,” the Harvard astrophysicist continued. “We can find the answer to the above question by monitoring the sky during November and December 2025, and searching for any unusual activity of 3I/ATLAS or any new objects that came out of it.”

“As of now, 3I/ATLAS appears most likely to be a natural comet,” he added. “But the remote possibility of an Oberth maneuver must be considered seriously as a black swan event with a small probability, because of its huge implications for humanity.”