Written by Andrew K. Arnett
On November 19 NASA unveiled its latest photograph of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The comet has been the object of a lot of controversy ever since it appeared on the scene in July 2025. The designation “3I” identifies it as only the third confirmed object to pass through our Solar System from somewhere out in deep space since we began to keep records of such things. However, those expecting a closer look at the comet were let down.
Avi Loeb, astrophysicist and Harvard Professor of Science at Harvard University, who’s had a lot to say about the comet, was unimpressed.
The NASA image was taken by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 3. Loeb wrote on Medium that the image shows a “fuzzy ball of light” and “due to spacecraft jitter during the observation period, the light from 3I/ATLAS is smeared by several pixels.”
NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya stated at a news conference at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, “This object is a comet. It looks and behaves like a comet, and all evidence points to it being a comet. But this one came from outside the solar system, which makes it fascinating, exciting and scientifically very important.”
Loeb, as do others in the ufology community, believe there is more to it than that. In fact, Loeb has suggested that the comet could in fact be a technological object, such as an alien space craft. He bases this theory on its unusually large size, its weird trajectory (suggesting its path via Venus, Mars and Jupiter to be “suspiciously well-aimed.”) as well as other anomalies.
There’s no doubt the object is unusual, an anomaly, a unicorn galloping through space. It is moving super fast, racing through the cosmos at the speed of 153,000 miles per hour. It is surrounded by a noxious gas cloud made of 95% carbon dioxide and negatively/positively charged dust forming a plasma shield that deflects debris that comes across its path.
Loeb has gone to suggest that NASA is being purposely duplicitous and hiding the truth. He quotes Sherlock Holmes: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact … It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Plasma physicist and author Dr. John Brandenburg, who has been quite vocal on the 3I ATLAS event, had cautioned expectations regarding the NASA image, tweeting on X, “Dear Friends, we must have realistic expectations concerning the NASA image release presser today. NASA is now officially part of the US Security Apparatus, hence, they will not release anything suggesting 3I ATLAS is an ET probe. Images released today IMO will be natural looking.”
Dr. Brandenburg is referencing the executive order signed by the White House in August 2025 designating NASA as now primarily an intelligence and security agency. Specifically, the order declares that NASA will now “have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work.”
This is a shift from NASA’s historical focus on scientific discovery and space exploration. A security agency is of course involved in intelligence gathering, national security and other murky spook-related activity. We are not sure what effects this rebranding will ultimately mean, as only time will tell. Certainly, the fact that the 3I/ATLAS showed up just as NASA underwent its newly assigned designation makes it suspicious to some.
REFERENCES
There is Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact: NASA’s Press Conference on 3I/ATLAS
NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER RECLASSIFIES NASA AS AN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY AGENCY
Andrew K. Arnett is a writer for New Dawn Magazine and author of the book The Crowley Conspiracy available on Amazon.
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