Object Spotted Near Earth May Be Ancient Spacecraft

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is no stranger to furthering eyebrow-raising ideas.

Lately, for instance, he’s been hypothesizing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — broadly believed by his peers to be a comet — is an artifact sent to us by an alien civilization. He has even suggested that the rare visitor may be behind the “Wow! Signal,” an unusual radio emission that has puzzled scientists since its detection in 1977.

Now, in a new blog post, Loeb suggests that a newly-identified quasi-satellite — a small object with an Earth-like orbit — may also be a visitor from a long-dead intelligent civilization.

The twist? The civilization in question would be the Soviet Union. Specifically, the researcher suggests that 2025 PN7, a so-called “second moon” that was first discovered to have been