- Mid-2025 – Object detected and initially classified as interstellar.
- Late 2025 – Hubble captures detailed post-perihelion imagery.
- December 27, 2025 – Triple-jet structure clearly resolved.
- Early 2026 – Loeb and Scarmato publish rotational wobble analysis.
- March 16, 2026 – 3I/ATLAS will reach closest approach to Jupiter.
Jupiter’s gravity could further alter the jet activity — potentially clarifying internal structure.
Where NASA Stands
NASA has not publicly characterized the object as artificial.
There has been no official statement linking the object to non-natural origins.
However, the data showing structured symmetry and synchronized wobbling is now in the public domain.
That places NASA in a position of scientific interpretation pressure — not accusation, but scrutiny.
Enter the National Security Angle
President Trump recently issued a statement, “directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects…”
The question now raised by some analysts:
If an interstellar object displayed behavior consistent with controlled propulsion, which agency would evaluate that risk?
