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3I/Atlas: A Visit From a
Far-Distant Civilization? By Matthew Fox 11/29/2025 |
In our monthly Order of the Sacred Earth meeting this week, I brought up the topic of 3I/Atlas now occupying astronomers around the world. If “ecology is functional cosmology,” as Thomas Berry instructs us, the possibility that a cosmic artifact over seven billion years old is visiting our solar system and even communicating with us is pretty significant news for sure. And something surely worthy of our contemplation. |
I find it most exciting to contemplate — whether it is true or not — that this largest of all visiting comets we have sighted might not be a comet at all, but an artifact created by a civilization billions of years ago that may well be extinct. |
“Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Captured From Every Angle By NASA” Scott
Manley |
I say worthy of contemplation, whether it is true or not, because if it is true, as one Harvard scientist has put it, this marks November 18, 2025, as the most significant day in the history of the human race: The day we truly encountered a visitor from another galaxy. (As a Christian, however, I believe God’s incarnation into human history is the most significant day in human history.) Even if 3I/Atlas is just a comet, its being an engineered object is still a marvel to meditate on, a work of science fiction that can excite our imaginations about possibilities of encountering advanced life from other spheres in the future (not to discount other encounters that may already have occurred). It is also striking to me that we are having this discussion in Thanksgiving season because such speculation—whether of something real, or of something imagined—ought to trigger thanks for our imaginations and our science and technological instruments that can learn about such visitors and get down to concrete analysis. The possibility that intelligence far more advanced than ours exists elsewhere in the universe (or
did in the past), and we can encounter it, is for me a cause of deep gratitude and awe, and gratitude for our powers of awe. |
Two of the four Unit Telescopes of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT): the world’s most advanced visible-light observatory, 2600 metres above sea level in the Chilean Atacama Desert. Photo by José Francisco Salgado, ESO, on Wikimedia Commons. | A reminder that our existence, creativity, technology, curiosity, and capacity to interact with others should not be taken for granted. All of it is a gift. Furthermore, I see in such an encounter the possibility of humankind waking up to what counts, instead of |
carrying on the banal folly of war and hatred and envy against our own kin and kind. Can it bring us together as a species? For this is a fact: Telescopes and astronomers from all over the world are at this time focusing on this fascinating object. From China and South Africa, Russia and Chile, Hawaii
and Europe, humans are focusing on something other than our petty wars and plans for vengeance and recriminations. Indeed, the best sightings we have so far are from a Chinese satellite that was photographing near Mars when Chinese astronomers turned that apparatus toward 3I/Atlas instead, since it was the nearest satellite to that object. Let us consider why some scientists are giving a 35 to 40% probability that we are dealing with something other than a comet. (NASA is playing very conservative about that possibility, however.) The key is that this “comet” is behaving in ways that contradict present-day knowledge of how comets operate. In fact, about thirteen “anomalies” have been detected. Among them are the following: |
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has determined that a trajectory alignment exists in this object with Jupiter that is “extraordinary” and is statistically improbable for a natural body like a comet. In addition, it boasts an “incredibly precise trajectory,” an unexpected non- |
Animation of 3I/ATLAS, moving through the inner Solar System (Credit: CSS, D. Rankin). Wikimedia Commons |
gravitational acceleration and jet activity that is unlike typical comet outgassing. He thinks that it exhibits an “intentional navigation” that is unlike the random chance navigation of a free-wheeling comet. Thrusters may be fine-tuning its trajectory. Loeb’s orbital models recognize that 3I/Atlas is heading to pass “almost precisely” along the zone where Jupiter’s gravity overtakes that of the sun and is doing so “with remarkable precision.” The level of alignment is so precise that he believes it is statistically
improbable, were it happening randomly. The object should arrive closest to Jupiter on March 16, 2026. But it will be closest to Earth this December 19, and no doubt we will learn much more about it then with so many telescopes on Earth and in Earth’s orbit aimed at it. Stay
tuned. |
Queries for Contemplation What are your thoughts and feelings about this visitor from at least seven
billion years ago? Do you feel such a visitation could incite humanity to get smarter and more grateful about its continued existence in the universe? And by focusing on a visitor, become less preoccupied with war against each other and against Mother Earth?
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