Professor Rages at NASA’s “Deceptive” Press Conference on Mysterious Interstellar Object

After over a month of government shutdown, NASA finally released new images of mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday.

During the livestreamed event, NASA brass took pains to “address the rumors,” with associate administrator Amit Kshatriya vehemently denying a theory championed by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb that we could be looking at an alien spacecraft coming to visit from a different star system.

“This object is a comet,” Kshatriya said. “It looks and behaves like a comet, and all evidence points towards it being a comet.”

The announcement appears to have angered Loeb. In a blog post, the astronomer criticized NASA for repeating the “official mantra that 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet,” arguing that “there was no big news.”

He quoted British author Arthur Conan Doyle’s