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By Samuel Lopez | USA Herald
November 18, 2025

For months, the world has been watching an interstellar traveler behave in ways no natural comet ever has. And tomorrow—Wednesday, November 19—NASA will finally host a long-awaited live event to release new imagery and data on 3I/ATLAS, an object that continues to defy the laws of celestial mechanics, comet physics, and, frankly, logic.

NASA’s announcement promises “the latest images collected by several NASA missions,” including high-resolution instrument packages that the public has never seen. As someone who has spent the past several months investigating this object from a legal, scientific, and evidentiary perspective, I will be tuning in just like the rest of the country.

But I’m not tuning in for the spectacle—I’m tuning in for answers.

Because the anomalies surrounding 3I/ATLAS are no longer fringe curiosities. They are documented, measurable, repeatedly observed, and independently photographed by dozens of individuals around the world. The scientific high-strangeness has crossed a threshold where serious questions must now be addressed in an open forum.

And NASA’s live event is the moment.

Why Tomorrow Matters More Than NASA Realizes

3I/ATLAS has already produced a checklist of behaviors that no natural comet has ever exhibited:

• Sudden non-gravitational acceleration events
• A highly collimated jet-spine tail resembling a thrust vector
• A coma that refuses to smear with rotation
• A stable luminosity inconsistent with volatile-driven outgassing
• An anti-tail that aligns more with controlled emission than solar radiation
• An almost total lack of fragmentation debris
• Radio-frequency absorption in OH maser life-linked bands
• Jet structures oriented in ways that contradict standard physics
• A coma too symmetrical, too bright, and too stable

If this were a court case, the pattern of evidence would be overwhelming: something about this object is not behaving according to natural comet mechanics.

And now NASA finally steps into the spotlight.

What NASA MUST Clarify

In the spirit of transparency—and in the interest of public trust—NASA cannot approach this event with rehearsed talking points or evasive generalities.

The American public deserves clear, direct answers on the following:

1. Why did 3I/ATLAS experience sudden acceleration without mass loss?

NASA has avoided this question, but independent astronomers have not.

2. Why does the jet remain stable and unsmeared, contradicting standard rotation physics?

Avi Loeb’s “12th anomaly” directly challenges NASA’s initial assumptions.

3. What explains the extremely bright, uniform coma with no dust clumping?

Natural comets do not glow like stable plasma bulbs.

4. Why does the tail behave like a directional exhaust stream instead of a solar-radiation-shaped plume?

This is one of the most unambiguous anomalies yet.

5. Why is the object absorbing radio frequencies linked to organic chemistry (1665 & 1667 MHz)?

MeerKAT scientists confirmed this—but NASA has not acknowledged it.

6. Why has NASA avoided publicly addressing Loeb’s published findings?

The Questions I Encourage Every Viewer to Submit Live Using #AskNASA

NASA invited the public to submit questions during the livestream.
Here are the best, most direct questions the public should ask—questions that cut through the noise and address the core mysteries.

1. “What mechanism explains 3I/ATLAS’s confirmed non-gravitational acceleration?”
2. “Why does the jet remain stable instead of smearing due to rotation, as Loeb’s analysis confirms?”
3. “Has NASA analyzed the object’s radio-frequency absorption in the OH maser bands associated with life chemistry?”
4. “Can NASA explain the directional, spine-like jet structure that resembles a propulsion vector?”
5. “Has NASA ruled out artificial or engineered explanations, and if so, based on what data?”
6. “Why were early HiRISE images withheld for months, and will they finally be released today?”
7. “Why is 3I/ATLAS significantly brighter than expected for an interstellar icy body at this distance?”
8. “Why is there no visible dust fragmentation, debris fields, or grain loss in any of the new images?”
9. “Does NASA acknowledge the object’s anti-tail and its inconsistency with standard solar wind physics?”
10. ‘What is NASA’s policy if an interstellar object displays non-natural behaviors?”

A question that should have been answered seven years ago with 'Oumuamua.

These are not sensational questions—they are scientific ones.
They are grounded in documented evidence.

And NASA must answer them.

A Turning Point in Public Understanding

Tomorrow’s event is more than a livestream. It is a moment of accountability. The public is no longer dependent solely on NASA for data. Amateur astronomers worldwide now contribute images that rival professional observatory quality.

The November 16 Celestron EdgeHD 800 image alone—taken by Satoru Murata—revealed structural anomalies that no press release can easily dismiss.

The era of public, crowdsourced astrophysics has arrived. And with it, a new expectation: transparency.

I’ll be covering the event in real time for USA Herald, and I will publish a full analysis immediately after.