Avi Loeb

These are the interesting ones, because then you can check if any of them might be a Voyager-like meteor.

Meteor experts would say, it looks like a rock that we've never seen before.

And I would say that's what the cave dweller would say when you present a cell phone to a cave dweller.

The cave dweller is used to rocks.

And that would be the response.

It's a rock of a type I've never seen before.

My only recommendation to my colleagues, those that are comet experts, those that are meteor experts, is not to restrict their statements on a limited data set.

They are used to dealing with rocks in the sky, okay?

So that's what they were trained on.

That's how they got their reputation.

But I tell them, look, there are other things in the sky, technological gadgets that we launched.

Since the 60s, the sky, we know that the space between Earth and the sun is full of objects that were launched by the Soviet Union, by the US, and so forth.

And so we know that such objects exist.

This is not in their training data.

It's not, but there is a simple remedy.

we should train them on space objects so that they will be more imaginative.

Instead, what they do is attack me when I'm suggesting something is anomalous, so we should consider a technological object.

And the amazing thing is, you know, Oumuamua, you mentioned it.

In 2017, it was discovered by a telescope in Hawaii, and given the name Oumuamua, which means a scout,

And then it was clear from the beginning that it's a very unusual rock that we've never seen before.