Why Loeb Says Weird — and What’s Being Overlooked
Loeb lists a series of eight “Dayenu-style” anomalies (Dayenu = “It would have been enough”) regarding 3I/ATLAS:
- Sunward jet/anti-tail pointing toward the Sun (instead of away).
- Mass vastly greater (he suggests “million times” more massive than ʻOumuamua, “thousand times” more than Borisov) while moving faster.Center for Astrophysics
- Orbit aligned within ~5° of ecliptic (unlikely if random).
- Fine-tuned arrival timing, passing near Mars, Venus and Jupiter.
- Gas plume withnickel but no iron (and an extremely high nickel: cyanide ratio).
- Gas plume only ~4% water by mass (contrary to expectations for water-rich comets).
- Extreme negative polarization of reflected light — beyond known comet norms.
- Arrival direction within ~9° of the “Wow! Signal” radio anomaly (1977).
He doesn’t claim outright that it is alien technology — but argues these anomalies add up to something that merits far greater attention than standard comet-classification does.
