Pentagon officials have warned that an alien mothership in our solar system could be sending probes to Earth.
A recent report published by the US intelligence hub noted how “parent craft” could send down smaller probes to Earth that may be used similarly to how NASA sends probes to look at other planets.
The report was co-authored by the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) director, Sean Kirkpatrick and chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department, Abraham Loeb, who suggested the potential of a large ship in space.
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The AARO was formed in 2022 with the aim of tracking everything and anything unidentified, in space as well as under the ocean.
In the report, as quoted by 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 not too dissimilar from NASA missions.”
The report continued: “These ‘dandelion seeds’ could be separated from the parent craft by the tidal gravitational force of the Sun or by a manoeuvring capability.”
After the US congress asked NASA to find 90% of objects more than the size of 140 metres in diameter in 2005, Pan-STARRS telescopes were constructed.
This resulted in the bizarre discovery of an unidentified interstellar object that became known as Oumuamua, a long, thin, pencil-shaped object that left no trail. When it was initially discovered, many scientists thought it was artificial
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.
“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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