A MYSTERY object tearing towards Earth at break-neck speed has raised fears that ALIENS are on their way here.

Boffins warn that the odd entity, which astronomers are calling 31/Atlas, could be an ET craft set to launch probes on our planet.

Estimated at more than 12 miles wide, it is whizzing through our solar system on a trajectory that will bring it within about 170million miles of us on December 19.

A trio of scientists from Harvard University in America, led by astrophysicist Avi Loeb, have published a paper speculating whether it could be “hostile” extraterrestrial technology.

Nick Pope, a retired Ministry of Defence UFO investigator, said: “It is not beyond the realms of science fiction that 31/Atlas could be an alien spaceship of some kind.

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