It may take a couple of tries for this sentence to resolve into something that makes sense, but note that a respected Harvard astrophysicist says a mysterious object barreling through space toward Earth is an alien craft, and he believes it's 'hostile.'
The official name for the object that's estimated to be twice the size of Manhattan is 31/ATLAS, and Professor Avi Loeb and his team found its trajectory to be so rare they believe the chance of it being a natural space rock is less than 0.005 percent. At the rate of travel, it should be near Earth in December.
But NASA says the closest it'll come is 170 million miles away. And its experts insist the object is naturally occurring -- probably a comet -- and definitely not a hostile alien enemy sent here to destroy us.
On the other side, per LadBible, "(Loeb's team) suggested that 3I/ATLAS' path through our solar system could be 'intentional to avoid detailed observations from Earth-based telescopes', which would meant that any kind of decision making process on board would know we were living here and had the means to spot them if they weren't careful.
"The researchers said that in the event of an attack it'd 'require defensive measures to be undertaken.'"
While the Harvard team's analysis brought excitement, Paul Chodas, NASA's director of their Center for Near Earth Object Studies, told the AP whatever the object is, it's been 'travelling through space for hundreds of millions of years.'
"We’ve been expecting to see interstellar objects for decades, frankly, and finally we’re seeing them," Chodas said, adding, "A visitor from another solar system, even though it’s natural - it’s not artificial, don’t get excited because some people do."