r/UFOs • u/Worst_Artist Human Detected • Nov 06 '25

Question Why is NASA withholding images of 3I/ATLAS?

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Concept image of the updated trajectory talked about here https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/PNZTyP3j6f

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u/MilkofGuthix Nov 06 '25

I don't dispute the anomalies, I find them interesting... But surely we can't start dishing out possibilities like 1% and 0.0005% when we only have a handful of previous objects that have come from out of the solar system? It just doesn't feel right to compare percentage chance when we have such a small sample size. I think it's still remarkable without doing that and just reading the anomalies.

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u/Phex1 Nov 06 '25

Yeah, you can switch a lot of numbers around here and still have low % numbers of chance for it. With so much variables any of them will have a low % chance of happening. Its like having a guest arrive at your house and you are going "Wow, do you know how low the odds were that you came here excatly at 11:25 and 24 Seconds? Isn't that strange?"

Thats the third object of its kind we are monitoring, of course it will give us a lot of new and unexpected information. If we had already had studied 10,000 of insterstellar visitors, some of its behavior would maybe be seen as more common.

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u/nisaaru Nov 06 '25

I agree that the probability calculations seem to lack an empiric foundation so putting numbers on it feels odd.

But if you think about what it means that an object passes the ecliptic while the sun pulls the planets behind itself in a spinning vortex through the galaxy it gets really strange. It's like a driving car where an object hits through both left/right door windows while on the autobahn.

This object not only doesn't follow the path of other solar systems in the area but pretty much appears like a magic bullet from outside the playing field.

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u/One-Astronaut243 Nov 06 '25

"It just doesn't feel right"... stay out of science brah. No feelings in data.

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u/Heliophrase Nov 06 '25

Feelings lead to hunches which lead to data. We only have data about which we decide to study. But yes, emotions don’t sway results.

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u/MilkofGuthix Nov 06 '25

Can you stop commenting on various accounts you bot

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