Avi Loeb on 3I Atlas: Interstellar Object, Orbital Anomalies, and Alien Technology

The Enigmatic 3I Atlas

• 💡 3I Atlas is identified as a potential third interstellar object entering our solar system.
• 🚀 It is remarkably large, estimated at 20 km in diameter (city-sized), making it a million times more massive than Oumuamua and a thousand times more massive than Borisov.
• 🎯 Discovered by the Atlas telescope in Chile, its brightness suggested a significant size, comparable to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

Unexplained Orbital Anomalies

• 🪐 On March 16, 2026, 3I Atlas will pass exactly at Jupiter's Hill radius, where Jupiter's gravity dominates the Sun's, a precise alignment to four significant digits.
• ⚡ This precise trajectory is attributed to non-gravitational acceleration observed when the object was closest to the sun, allowing it to reach this specific point.
• 🛰️ The object's path is also unusually aligned with the plane of the planets, with only a 1 in 500 chance of occurring randomly.

Potential for Alien Technology

• 🧠 Harvard Professor Avi Loeb suggests the non-gravitational acceleration could be evidence of an **