Harvard Astronomer Contends On CNN That Interstellar Object Could Be Alien Craft

BOSTON – A Harvard astronomer explained why an unidentified object detected this summer could potentially be an alien spacecraft.

Avi Loeb, the chair of the university’s astronomy department, appeared Thursday on “ CNN This Morning” to discuss speculation about the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object, which was first spotted on July 1 by the Deep Random Survey remote telescope in Chile.

“The brightness of the object implies a diameter of 20 km, and there is not enough rocky material, and there is not enough rocky material in interstellar space to deliver such a giant object per decade,” Loeb said.

“It takes 10,000 years for that much mass to arrive to the inner part of the solar system. Moreover, the trajectory of this object is very fine tuned. It lies in the plane of the orbits of t