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Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb told viewers on America Right Now that the mysterious interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS surprised astronomers by maneuvering near the Sun and unexpectedly brightening and turning bluer while it was hidden in solar conjunction. Those changes, picked up by space-based assets while the object was behind the Sun, have only deepened the mystery and forced a rare moment of scientific drama into the headlines.
This is no backyard meteor; 3I/ATLAS was first detected in July 2025 and is officially the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed passing through our system, following ʻOumuamua and Borisov. Its path is hyperbolic and fast, with perihelion occurring around October 29, 2025, and its closest approach to Earth projected in mid-December, so Americans should watch this unfold with pride and curiosity.
Professional observatories have detected real, bizarre activity: jets of CN gas appearing in distinct plumes rather than as a uniform halo, a very high carbon-dioxide to water ratio picked up by space telescopes, and measurable non-gravitational accelerations that suggest uneven outgassing. These are not the sleepy comets of old; they are dynamic, volatile, and demand serious scientific attention from instruments that belong to the American people.
Yet instead of a full and transparent release of vital imagery, Loeb warned that a Washington shutdown led by Senate leadership has delayed NASA from sharing some of that crucial data, a bureaucratic chokehold that he bluntly called “terrestrial stupidity.” It is shameful when partisan games in Washington interfere with the free flow of scientific information and national awareness of things happening right over our heads.
Patriots should be furious that politics could be allowed to stifle American science and national security. If images and telemetry that help us understand an interstellar object are being held up by a Senate shutdown, that is a failure of leadership and a dereliction of duty to the public; Congress should be forced to reopen government and let researchers do their jobs.
Let’s be clear: most mainstream scientists still favor natural explanations—sublimating ices, odd chemistry, and structural changes—over science-fiction fantasies about alien machines. That said, when a genuine unknown appears in our skies and behaves unlike anything we’ve seen, common-sense transparency and aggressive observation are the only sane responses, not bureaucratic secrecy or partisan delays.
America must lead the charge: fund NASA properly, empower our space assets, and lean on the private sector so that politics cannot ever again muzzle discovery or jeopardize our understanding of near-Earth space. The next great revelations about the universe should be broadcast to hardworking Americans, not held hostage to a shutdown—our nation’s curiosity and security demand nothing less.
