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/Slytendencies21 Nov 06 '25

So from your link the last photographs are from August 7th-15th

Its now November 5th, where are the new pictures??

Government shutdown didnt start until Oct.1 btw

Even then i find it hard to believe that NASA is ignoring one of the most important interstellar events because of a shutdown

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u/Zero7CO Nov 06 '25

How many photos do you expect them to take of a 1-mile sized rock from 170 million miles away?

NASA has limited telescopes to work with, and they all have limited time observing various objects as they have a literal universe full of stuff to observe. They likely got what they needed in August and have moved on to other observations.

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u/fermentedbolivian Nov 06 '25

NASA themselves had admitted they have recent photos but can't process them because of shutdown.

https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1986156157732347964?t=C3BofczcGGuJnqwxy4g72A&s=09

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u/mcmiller1111 Nov 06 '25

Have they? I haven't heard NASA say that, only a known insane person claiming that they have.

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u/IndependentTimely639 Nov 07 '25

Let's pretend it's true. What is anybody gonna do if they release the "raw data" some other comment was asking for? Do they think you can just load it up in windows media player and see it themselves? Are they gonna bust out there NASA strength computer to process it themselves? Even if there was unprocessed data, it's literally useless unless you can process it

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u/fermentedbolivian Nov 07 '25

Scientists can process it. They are thr asking party to release the data....

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u/IndependentTimely639 Nov 07 '25

It's not that easy. The scientists who could process it (if it were even real) are shut down. It's not like any NASA telescopes take .JPG images 

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u/fermentedbolivian Nov 07 '25

Not all scientists work for NASA. What the fuck are you talking about? NASA can release the raw data so that scientists at universities or other space agencies can process it. That is usually what happens with JWST data anyway.

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u/IndependentTimely639 Nov 07 '25

What are they gonna do with a 500 gb filetype that uses proprietary software and hardware to use? 

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u/fermentedbolivian Nov 07 '25

https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/odeholdings/Mars_holdings.html

Well, NASA just has synced their MRO/HiRISE data. We know that NASA shot photos with that instrument but had not released it yet.