Avi Loeb

They saw that it deviates from its path just the way I was discussing Oumuamua, interpreting Oumuamua.

So it can work.

But then they asked, okay, what is this object?

You didn't hear about it because there was never a paper written on it.

Within a few months, they took a spectrum of the light reflected coming from the object and they found that it's made of stainless steel.

Wow.

And it was actually, they realized this is...

the upper stage of a 1966 launch.

I remember this now.

Towards the moon.

Yes.

And so it's definitely technological.

And the reason it's pushed by sunlight is because it had thin walls, this enclosure.

And we know that it's technological because we produced it.

The question is, who produced Oumuamua?

Just a proof of principle that this idea works.

There was another example of January 2nd, 2025, a year ago.

There was the Minor Planet Center that basically catalogs all objects coming close to Earth.

They announced a near-Earth asteroid.

And they said, we put it in the catalog as one of the near-Earth asteroids.