Officials from the Pentagon have laid bare the possibility of an alien mothership visiting our solar system and directing probes to Earth, much like NASA have been doing when studying other planets.
In a draft research report released on March 7 and drafted by the United States Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) director, Sean Kirkpatrick and Avi Loeb, the chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department, they have suggested that there could be a large craft out in space, monitoring our planet, reports the Daily Star.
They wrote: “An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct. These ‘dandelion seeds’ could be separated from the parent craft by the tidal gravitational force of the Sun or by a manoeuvring capability.”
AARO was created in July 2022 and their aim is to track everything and anything unidentified in the sky, in space and underwater, and even objects that have the ability to journey from one domain to the next.
Congress asked NASA to find 90 per cent of objects more than the size of 140 metres in diameter in 2005, with Pan-STARRS telescopes constructed. This led to the discovery of the long, thin, pencil-shaped Oumuamua, an unidentified interstellar object that left no comet trail.
When it was initially discovered, some scientists thought it was artificial. And even now, opinion is divided on the mysterious object.
The report continued: “With proper design, these tiny probes would reach the Earth or other solar system planets for exploration, as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation, just like Oumuamua did.
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“Astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them.”
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