#3,345 – Is An Alien Probe Heading Towards Us?!
August 3, 2025 by Craig Shames
Even if we are near a massive cosmic void that doesn’t mean that aliens will never find us. In fact, they may be heading towards us right now, or at least a probe that they sent is, after we detected an unknown object from outside our solar system heading towards us for just the third time. And this one may be acting in an unnatural way giving credence to the thought that it’s more than just a comet or asteroid.
Futurism explains:
“Earlier this month, astronomers made a fascinating discovery: a mysterious object with interstellar origins, now dubbed 3I/ATLAS, that’s hurtling toward the inner solar system at extreme speeds.
As scientists race to get a better understanding of the rare visitor — it’s only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — some intriguing theories have emerged.
One particularly eyebrow-raising possibility beyond the mainstream suggestions of it being either a comet or an asteroid, as championed by Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb, is that 3I/ATLAS could have been sent by an intelligent, extraterrestrial civilization.
In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Loeb analyzed the possibility that the object is ‘alien technology,’ highlighting its unusual trajectory and what he says may be attempts to brake itself to have a closer look at Earth and Jupiter. (He also emphasized that it might just be a comet or space rock.)
‘The orbital path of 3I/ATLAS has some very unlikely combination of characteristics, which could quite easily have been simple coincidence, as extremely strange as that ostensibly appears,’ the paper reads.
But Loeb — who previously wrote an entire book about the possibility that ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object first observed in 2017, may have been sent to us by an alien civilization — and his colleagues stopped far short of concluding the latest discovery was an alien probe. In the paper, they argued that ‘this paper is largely a pedagogical exercise’ and that ‘by far the most likely outcome will be that 3I/ATLAS is a completely natural interstellar object, probably a comet.’
As Swinburne University of Technology lecturer Sara Webb argued in a piece for The Conversation, the idea that the intriguing object could have an extraterrestrial origin is an intriguing hypothesis, and shouldn’t be discarded.
‘The idea of alien probes wandering the cosmos may sound strange, but humans sent out a few ourselves in the 1970s,’ Webb wrote, pointing out that ‘both Voyager 1 and 2 have officially left our Solar System, and Pioneer 10 and 11 are not far behind.’
‘So it’s not a stretch to think that alien civilizations — if they exist — would have launched their own galactic explorers,’ she concluded.”
It’s far more likely that this object is of natural origins with its movements impacted by the gravity of our neighboring plantes even if it does appear to change direction. But what if it really is an alien probe?! We could be on the verge of confirming the existence of alien intelligence for the first time ever.
Is an alien probe coming towards us?!