I have held off on covering this because I wanted to see how things shook out and whether the "research" on this was valid, but now that Glenn Beck is covering it, I want to at least bring it to your attention.
Is a Manhattan-sized ALIEN SHIP hurtling towards Earth?!
Well, the short answer at this point is possibly so!
Allow me to explain why....
Many believe it is shaped with structured geometric formations that don't occur naturally in nature:
It is reportedly made of a never-before-seen metal alloy mixture:
In fact, here's a short list of all the "anomalies" researchers have found so far:
Now let's go to Glenn Beck who had Avi Loeb on his show to discuss all of this in detail:
Since Avi is a bit hard to understand, here is a full transcript:
Glenn Beck:
Professor Avi Loeb is with us. Uh, Avi, how are you, sir?
Avi Loeb:
Doing great. Thanks for having me.
Glenn Beck:
Yeah, it's great to have you on. So, can you just please explain -- are we just seeing these things more than we ever have because we have the eyes now in space to see this?
Avi Loeb:
Yeah. Over the past decade, astronomers constructed new survey telescopes of the sky. We also have much better computers that allow us to digest large data sets. But the motivation for building those survey telescopes is a task that Congress gave to NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF): to survey the sky for any objects near Earth that could collide with Earth, because that poses a risk. They posed it as the challenge of finding all objects bigger than a football field that may collide with Earth -- near-Earth objects.
Avi Loeb:
There were two major observatories constructed a decade ago: Pan-STARRS in Hawaii, and recently, in June 2025, a new observatory in Chile was inaugurated called the Rubin Observatory, funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Those allow us to see objects that are the size of a football field and have a complete survey. Amazingly, in 2017, an object like that was flagged, and then astronomers realized it was actually moving too fast to be bound by gravity to the Sun. So it came from outside the solar system -- it couldn't have been around. That was the first; it was given the name 'Oumuamua, which means "scout" in the Hawaiian language.
Glenn Beck:
Hold on, hold on just a second, because I remember this and I think I talked to you around this time. Explain what you meant -- it was moving too fast.
Avi Loeb:
Oh. Well, you know the planets orbit the Sun. For example, the Earth moves around the Sun at a speed of about 30 kilometers per second -- which is 300 times faster than the fastest race car we have. I'm talking about 30 kilometers in one second; that's about 20 miles in one second. That's the speed by which the Earth orbits the Sun.
Avi Loeb:
But imagine boosting the Earth -- just giving it, attaching, a rocket to it. Once it would reach a speed of about 42 kilometers per second, bigger by the square root of two -- roughly 1.4 times the current speed -- it would be able to escape the solar system. It just needs a high enough speed to escape from the gravitational potential well of the Sun. And we know what this speed is. So if we see objects moving near the Earth at more than 42 km/s, we know that they cannot be bound by gravity to the Sun; they must have originated somewhere else.
Avi Loeb:
And 'Oumuamua was one of those. Since then we found two more with telescopes. I actually identified, with my student, a fourth one which was found by U.S. government satellites that are monitoring the Earth -- that was a meteor that came from interstellar space. But at any event, the most recent one was found by a small telescope in Chile called ATLAS, again to identify risk for Earth, and that one was given the name 3I/ATLAS.
Glenn Beck:
So help me out on this, because we didn't have these telescopes. This is obviously a relatively new thing that we're doing. How much damage does a football-field-size comet or space debris -- what would that do? What was the size of whatever killed the dinosaurs, if that indeed was what happened? What is an Earth-killer size?
Avi Loeb:
Yeah. Well, the size of a football field -- an object like that, if it collides with Earth, can cause regional damage, much more -- on the order of a thousand times the Hiroshima atomic bomb energy output.
Glenn Beck:
So kind of like what happened in Russia back at the turn of the last century?
Avi Loeb:
Yeah, something -- no, that one was actually much smaller. That was a thousand times less massive. So these big ones are really rare, and that's why, as we continue the discussion, I will mention this new one. It's estimated to be on the order of the one that killed the dinosaurs, and these are extremely rare. So the question is: why are we seeing an interstellar object that big just within the last decade? But coming back to your question, the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was roughly Manhattan Island.
Avi Loeb:
So compare the size of a football field to Manhattan Island -- it's a very different scale. What Congress wanted NASA to do is identify those that will cause just regional damage, not a catastrophe like what happened with the dinosaurs, where there was a nuclear winter -- the Earth was covered with dust -- and about 75% of all species died. We owe our existence to that, because after the dinosaurs died, more complex animals came along, and we are one of those species.
Glenn Beck:
So you say they're only looking for the small ones, but I'm sure if the big one shows up, you'll ring the bell.
Avi Loeb:
No -- yeah, it's much easier. It's much easier to see the big ones.
Glenn Beck:
Right. And do we have any technology that can move these things out, or is this just something that we're not -- oh, just another thing on the plate: "Oh, by the way, this could happen and it's coming our way and there's really nothing we could do." Is this just a big worry, or are there things that we can actually do?
Avi Loeb:
Yes, we can, because if you catch it early enough before it comes close to Earth, you just need to nudge it a little bit to the side and then it will miss the Earth. There are all kinds of proposals for how to do that. The most aggressive one is to explode a nuclear weapon on it.
Glenn Beck:
Wouldn't that break it up and then we'd have all kinds of little meteors coming our way?
Avi Loeb:
Yeah, exactly. That's why it's not a good idea. You know, the old Patriot missiles were doing just that, and when they were operated back a decade ago, they created much more damage than help, actually. But you can do it in a more intelligent way -- maybe explode the weapon close to the object so that it doesn't disintegrate; it just ablates part of it, and then you get the rocket effect from the ablation pushing it.
Avi Loeb:
There are other ways. Some people suggested painting it on one side so that it reflects more sunlight on one side, and then it gets nudged a little bit. You can imagine shepherding it by gravity -- if the spacecraft is massive enough, it attracts it and gives it a gravitational nudge. There are all kinds of methods that were proposed, and by the way, NASA just a year ago tried one of these methods with a mission called DART, where they collided with an asteroid just to see how much it gets kicked as a result and what happens to it.
Avi Loeb:
It was quite surprising, because some of these asteroids are not very rigid -- they are porous -- and you get all kinds of dust thrown out of them in ways that were not anticipated. At any event, people are thinking about rocks. Rocks are easy to deal with, because in principle you can tell what their path would be. However, one thing that was never discussed -- the kind of thing I'm trying to advocate we do -- is: what if there is some alien technology out there?
Avi Loeb:
If it was designed by intelligence, you wouldn't be able to forecast exactly what it would do. It's just like finding a visitor in your backyard. The visitor may enter through your front door. You have to act immediately, and you need to engage with it in ways that are much more complicated than dealing with a rock.
Glenn Beck:
Okay, so here's something else you can worry about. Let me start there, because there are some things I've been reading -- I don't know what's true, I don't know what's not true -- on this 3I/ATLAS. Then I want to break that down, including the Wow! signal, which I think you had something -- you were there, weren't you, for that, in '77 or whenever that was?
Glenn Beck:
Okay, so I don't know what's real, what's not real. I don't know who has credibility. We've heard so many things about extraterrestrial technology. We had all of the drones in the sky, and everybody was thinking aliens were going to invade us for a while. The world is on edge -- we're very 1938-39, War of the Worlds kind of territory in America, and I think the world. We're freaked out about everything. So tell me about 3I/ATLAS and why you say it may have alien technology.
Avi Loeb:
Right. So let me give you the facts. The whole point about doing science is that we can collect evidence -- data from instruments -- and we don't need to rely on stories that people tell. What are the facts that make it really unusual? First of all, it's the size. As I mentioned in the beginning, we expect many more small objects than big objects, and the previous two interstellar objects were roughly hundreds of meters in size. The first one, 'Oumuamua, was of order a football field -- about 100 meters.
Avi Loeb:
This one -- I wrote a paper two weeks ago that shows it's bigger than five kilometers, comparable to the size of Manhattan Island. That means it's a million times more massive, if you take solid density, relative to the first one, 'Oumuamua -- a million times more. How can it be the third object? We should have seen millions of 'Oumuamua-like objects before seeing a big one like that.
Glenn Beck:
Yeah, but we didn't have the --
Avi Loeb:
Wait, wait. But we didn't have the technology to see it, right? I mean, these things could have been passing us --
Avi Loeb:
No, no. It's easier to see the big ones because they reflect much more sunlight -- especially if they shed mass. 'Oumuamua did not shed any mass; there was no gas or dust around it. We just saw the bare object, and it was already puzzling because of that. It was pushed away from the Sun by some mysterious force, it most likely was flat and had an extreme shape, and it accelerated.
Glenn Beck:
It accelerated, right? It didn't just whip around the Sun. It accelerated, which does not naturally happen.
Avi Loeb:
Yeah. Well, it happens if there is a rocket effect -- if it's losing mass in one direction and getting recoil in the opposite direction. But there wasn't any mass loss observed from 'Oumuamua. Nevertheless, what I'm saying is: an object that is a million times more massive is much easier to see when it's within about the Earth-Sun distance. We could have seen many of those small ones before we see a big one.
Avi Loeb:
The second interstellar object was a comet, very similar to the type of natural comets we see, and that one was a thousand times less massive than this new one, 3I/ATLAS. So the size is anomalous -- it's surprising that we would see a giant one like that. There is not enough rocky material in interstellar space to supply such a giant one once per decade to the inner solar system. We would expect it once per 10,000 years or so. That's the size anomaly.
Avi Loeb:
Then there is the fact that the Hubble Space Telescope observed it, and in the image it displays a glow that is toward the Sun -- pointing toward the Sun -- instead of what you usually see for comets, where you see glow pointing away from the Sun. The reason you see that away from the Sun is because dust and gas are being pushed by sunlight and the solar wind away from the Sun -- that's what gives a comet the look of a tail.
Glenn Beck:
Exactly. That's the definition of a comet.
Avi Loeb:
So then all the comet experts said, "Oh, look, here is a comet," because we see this extension of a glow. But what they didn't realize -- well, it's just like seeing an animal in your backyard and everyone says, "Oh, it must be a street cat because it has a tail," but then you look at the photograph of this animal and you see that the tail is coming from its forehead. How is that a street cat? A common street cat does not have a tail coming from its head.
Avi Loeb:
This one is the first that shows such a thing, unlike regular comets. In addition -- so these are two anomalies so far -- in addition, the trajectory of this object is aligned to within five degrees with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun, and the chance of that is one in 500. Basically it comes in the plane where all the planets are moving around the Sun. That could be due to intelligent planning, because if you wanted to do a reconnaissance mission -- coming close to planets -- that's the way to do it.
Avi Loeb:
The previous ones -- both 'Oumuamua and the second one, Borisov -- came at a very large angle. This one comes straight in the plane, and you ask, "Why is it coming in the plane?" By the way, for all of these anomalies, nobody calling himself or herself a comet expert has an explanation. They just say, "It's a comet." If you ask them, "Why is that?" they would not have an explanation. "Why does it come in the plane?" -- oh, it's by chance. "Why is it so big?" -- oh, it's by chance. "Why does it have this glow toward the Sun rather than away?" -- oh, it's something we don't fully understand. They would say that, but they would not admit that it could be something else.
Avi Loeb:
Then there is the arrival time of this object. It arrived in the solar system at a special time because it's passing very close to Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. These planets are moving around the Sun, and you have to be at the right time at the right place to come within tens of millions of kilometers from each of them. That's another coincidence that might indicate fine-tuning -- that there is some reason it's coming so close.
Glenn Beck:
So hang on just a sec. I just want to clear some stuff up, and then I've got to take another break. All of these things could be chance, right? But you're saying now the probability for each of them is very small, right? Then you need to multiply the --
Avi Loeb:
Correct. You need to multiply each likelihood by another, and you get something like a one-in-a-million chance.
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