Researchers on 1 July discovered 31/Atlas which is an interstellar object, but many scientists are in agreement that it is a strange comet.
A new study signed by 20 scientists and astronomers are asking if this is not a comet, then is it a “camouflaged” spaceship?
The scientists are not ruling out any hypothesis as such objects can hide technological signals, they say.
The scientists are saying 31/Atlas is moving at high speed which now has a reddish glow compared to a green glow a few weeks ago, and the small variations are raising doubts amongst the experts.
The scientists are part of an international team who have published their study and admit it is most likely a comet, but they maintain there is arguments it is a possibility it could be a candidate for alien technosignatures and it cannot be ruled out at this stage there is something more to it.
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Dr Avi Loeb, Professor at Harvard university said, “It’s definitely not a behaviour we observed before for any comet.
“I’m allowing myself the possibility that it’s a technological object.”
Earlier this month Scientists from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile said the interstellar object had turned green and it looks like something has “switched on.”
Over the weeks the mysterious object which has been called an “alien spaceship” by one scientist has turned from red to green which is “super linear” which has a rate limit not known by “the availability of photons, nor a linear response to temperature increase,” the report states.
Scientists are saying that the quick increase could “instead likely be temperature-activated and/or threshold process that is being switched on.”
“What they mean is that there is a process with some minimum temperature in order for it to get activated,” Harvard astrophysicist and 3I/ATLAS tracker Avi Loeb told The New York Post.
“Imagine that you want to buy a ticket to see a show. As long as you have a small amount of money in your pocket, you will not get in, but once you have more than some minimum, you will be able to see the show.
“The more money you have the better your seating might be, but getting into the theater requires you to cross a minimum payment. This is the threshold effect they are referring to.”
Dr Loeb wrote on Tuesday, “The ATLAS team interprets this anomalous evolution as a shift from scattering of sunlight by dust lifted from a reddened surface to the production of small, politically bright icy grains, which changed the opacity of the plume of materials shed off 3I/ATLAS.”
Earlier this month an astrophysicist has spoken out saying that the interstellar object travelling at 130,000mph “could be alien,” which comes after the theoretical physicist Dr Avi Loeb said he believes it could be an “alien spaceship.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson said the object known as 31/Atlas “could be” aliens, adding, “It’s not my first thought. I promise you it will be my last thought, but it’s in the list.”
