Avi Loeb

But just this alignment is really puzzling because at large distances from the sun, the object didn't really know about the sun.

So why would the rotation axis be so aligned?

Why would it be in the plane of the planets around the sun?

You know, the plane of the Milky Way galaxy is 60 degrees away from that plane.

There are all these anomalies.

There is much more nickel with very little iron.

So that's why I said, let's consider the possibility that it is a black swan event, an event that

It has a very low probability, but could have big implications for humanity.

And therefore, we should consider it seriously that it might be technologically designed.

At least its properties were designed.

Yeah, I mean, there are only three interstellar objects that were identified by astronomers from telescopes, and this is the third one.

So there cannot be an expert on those interstellar objects because we had only two before this one.

Just think about it as a blind date with objects that come from outside the solar system.

If you go on a blind date with two people and then you have a third one, and the first and the third look really strange to you,

Obviously, you should not make any judgment about their nature because you don't have a big enough sample to decide what is normal.

Of course, there are people who marry the first blind date.

They decide that it's sufficiently exceptional for them to get attached to that person even though it's the first one that they ever sampled.

But so we can't really tell how unusual because we have only a sample of three, but there are anomalies that we cannot explain.

And to me, it raises the possibility that there could be a subpopulation, a fraction of those objects that might be technological in origin.

And there aren't as many of them, but they target the inner solar system for a reason.