(NewsNation) — In just a matter of weeks, the unique interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is expected to pass closest to the sun between the orbits of Mars and Earth.

Avi Loeb, a Harvard University astrophysicist, has suggested 3I/ATLAS is some alien technology sent here from another solar system. This past weekend, he acknowledged the object could be on a mission to release "miniprobes" that could invade Earth.

Loeb told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" that those miniprobes can bring about two possibilities when answering if the object does have "alien tech."

"If it's a technological object, then it might maneuver itself," he said. However, Loeb and his fellow scientists haven't seen such a maneuver so far.

So what's the other possibility?

"The other possibility is that it may release som

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