MeerKAT Radio Telescope Findings Reveal 3I/ATLAS Absorbing Life-Linked Frequencies – As Its Closest Approach To Earth Occurs Days Before Christmas

3I/ATLAS did the one thing comets do not do. It absorbed radio energy instead of emitting it. It did so at precisely those two frequencies—1665 and 1667 MHz—while registering no comparable behavior in surrounding bands. This violates every known cometary model, every prior dataset, and every observational record from the past 50 years. When I first spoke with multiple astronomers about this anomaly, their reactions were identical: “That’s not supposed to happen.”

To understand why these frequencies matter, we must confront the most uncomfortable truth: these are the same frequencies SETI researchers since the 1970s have called the “water-hole,” the quietest, most predictable part of the electromagnetic spectrum, a natural channel that any intelligent civilization with a scientific understanding of hydrogen and hydroxyl would instantly recognize as a logical place to broadcast. Hydrogen resonates at 1420 MHz. Hydroxyl resonates at 1665–1667 MHz. Hydrogen plus hydroxyl equals water. And water equals life. In the SETI field, this frequency range has long been viewed as the universal meeting place—an interstellar town square—where any civilization hoping to be heard might logically transmit.