Avi Loeb

But then if we find clear evidence that any one of them is a tennis ball that was thrown by a neighbor, it's artificial, not natural, an iceberg or rock,

It will change everything because then we will feel a potential threat from alien technologies.

And that would mean that we might decide to allocate a significant fraction of the military budgets worldwide to defend the Earth.

defend our planet from a completely new type of threat.

You know, in the past, we imagined that rocks may collide with Earth because a giant rock the size of Manhattan Island killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

So we do have a planetary defense office at NASA that is engaged with identifying all the rocks bigger than a football field that may collide

collide with Earth, okay, just to prevent a catastrophe across a metropolitan region.

But we've never prepared for a technological object in space that is threatening the Earth, and that is much more complicated, but it could have an intent, it could maneuver, we can't really forecast its path.

So the minute we find evidence for alien technology, I think it will change our priorities.

And if we decide to invest the trillion dollars a year in a fraction of the military budgets in space exploration, we can build an array of

interceptors in space that would come close to every interstellar object, get us a close-up photograph so we can tell its nature.

And perhaps even we will have some kind of a solution of how to defend the Earth against those threats if they exist.

So that will change dramatically the funding for space exploration by a factor of almost a thousand or at least a hundred.

Wow.

But for that, we need to find evidence.

And the strange thing is that someone just a couple of weeks ago submitted, his name is John Greenwald, submitted a request, a FOIA request, Freedom of Information Act request to the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, asking them if they have any documents, any records,

that mentioned three Atlas.

And the reply was, we cannot confirm nor deny the existence of such records.

And to me, it illustrates the fact that they must have some records because if they had nothing, they would say we have nothing.

And the question is, why would the CIA consider 3A Atlas?