It looks like a giant cucumber

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

As 3I/ATLAS speeds toward the Sun, expected to reach its closest approach by late October 2025, astronomers continue to track its trajectory and activity. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, its passage offers scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the chemistry and behavior of interstellar objects.

Edited October 8, 2025 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

NIce illustration!  Maybe as it passes us and heads away from us, we will be able to tell where it is from and where it has been by the license plate and the bumper stickers.  😁

 

"I flew all the way from Alpha Centauri and all I got was this lousy bumpersticker"

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

As 3I/ATLAS speeds toward the Sun, expected to reach its closest approach by late October 2025, astronomers continue to track its trajectory and activity. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, its passage offers scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the chemistry and behavior of interstellar objects.

Those perfectly straight lines and strange COLORED lights....and window-looking things on the right end....make it look artificial.....maybe ALIEN!  

 

So..........what exactly is 31/ATLAS?

Edited October 8, 2025 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

11 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Those ,perfectly straight lines and strange COLORED lights....and window-looking things on the right end.....make it look artificial.....maybe ALIEN!

 

So..........what exactly is31/ATLAS?

The story so far is “we don’t know but …”. The astronomers believe it is older than our solar system, comes from beyond our solar system and is just passing through because of its high speed.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

 “Don’t slow down, there’s no intelligent life here.”

[DeaconKC]

I bet they lock their doors as they fly past...

 

 

...picking up @Alpo to take him home...😁

[Pat Riot]

Here’s a real image from the James Webb telescope…supposedly. 
 

Image from: https://blog.sciandnature.com/2025/09/james-webb-telescope-finally-shows-us.html?m=1

[Calamity Kris]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

As 3I/ATLAS speeds toward the Sun, expected to reach its closest approach by late October 2025, astronomers continue to track its trajectory and activity. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, its passage offers scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the chemistry and behavior of interstellar objects.

 

This looks really AI to me, especially the hatch on the front.

[Eyesa Horg]

A flying rotten zucchini 😷 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Here’s a real image from the James Webb telescope…supposedly. 
 

Image from: https://blog.sciandnature.com/2025/09/james-webb-telescope-finally-shows-us.html?m=1

That’s pretty wild! 😳

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Here’s a real image from the James Webb telescope…supposedly. 

Maybe it is just me, but dont those "actual" images from the James Web telescope look an awful lot like the saucers from "earth vs the flying saucers"?  

[Pat Riot]

21 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

That’s pretty wild! 😳

 

21 hours ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

Maybe it is just me, but dont those "actual" images from the James Web telescope look an awful lot like the saucers from "earth vs the flying saucers"?  

It is wild. I can’t tell if the thing has lights or that is just reflected light. 

 

It does look like a flying saucer. I think I read that it’s 7 miles long. Can you imagine what would happen if it really is flying saucer?

Exciting and scary at the same time. 

[Whitey James]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

 

It is wild. I can’t tell if the thing has lights or that is just reflected light. 

 

It does look like a flying saucer. I think I read that it’s 7 miles long. Can you imagine what would happen if it really is flying saucer?

Exciting and scary at the same time. 

I hope it is. maybe they can take some of our purple haired people to study them.

[Cypress Sun]

 

Deliberately crashing spacecraft into alien spaceships has consequences. 

 

Apparently, they don't like it.

 

NASA Successfully Crashed a Spacecraft Into Its Asteroid Target

[Cypress Sun]

On 10/8/2025 at 4:34 PM, Calamity Kris said:

 

This looks really AI to me, especially the hatch on the front.

 

Who says that's the front?

[Pat Riot]

6 hours ago, Whitey James said:

I hope it is. maybe they can take some of our purple haired people to study them.

Or try and enslave us all to mine the earth for precious metals and minerals. Wouldn’t that be a hoot? 
Then we could play “Cowboys and Aliens”! Of course my guns of choice would be my SFAR and a couple of Sig Sauer pistols. 

[Trailrider #896]

"Ezekial saw the wheel, way up in the middle of the air!" Just what was that thing he saw? What about the guy in the "linen" suit in the middle of the thing? And why is that part of the Book of Ezekial so different from the rest of it? 

[Dapper Dave]

I did see on Pat Gray that the giant cucumber picture from Mars is actually a series of photos overlaid, object may still a spherical doodad, apparently. 

Now, if it shows acceleration, deceleration, or course changes, THEN I'll get a wee bit nervous. I don't believe current course/speed leads to a zero/zero intercept of Earth.

What WOULD be funny is if they were looking for materials in the Solar System NOT of Earth, like, "Hey we need to mine Venus"...uh, OK, sure, we're really not using it right now...

Edited October 10, 2025 by Dapper Dave

[Whitey James]

15 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Or try and enslave us all to mine the earth for precious metals and minerals. Wouldn’t that be a hoot? 
Then we could play “Cowboys and Aliens”! Of course my guns of choice would be my SFAR and a couple of Sig Sauer pistols. 

Depending on the size of them and what type of protective gear, I'd go with my CZ SP-01 pistols and my PCC.

If they are the little grey fellas, that should be sufficient. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

It's the Romulans having a looksee.

[PowderRiverCowboy]

On 10/8/2025 at 2:46 PM, Eyesa Horg said:

A flying rotten zucchini 😷 

 

Giant space turd

[Dapper Dave]

Pigs in Space! It's Jim Hensen's revenge from beyond the grave!