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INCOMING Mystery object approaching us from interstellar space could be ALIEN spacecraft...
The Sun UK ^ | 19 Sep 2019, 16:57Updated: 19 Sep 2019, 17:11 | Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter

Posted on 09/19/2019 10:07:15 AM PDT by Red Badger

A MYSTERIOUS object hurtling towards our Solar System may be an alien spacecraft.

That's the shock claim made by one space scientist, who has exclusively revealed to The Sun that our incoming visitor could be piloted by hyper-intelligent beings.

Last week, scientists in Germany announced they had spotted a distant object heading in our direction.

Dubbed "C/2019 Q4", the high-speed body appears to be on a path originating from another star system that will see it fire past Mars in October.

Despite numerous attempts to study C/2019, scientists remain clueless as to what it is. Many speculate the distant mass is a comet.

According to prominent astronomer Dr Seth Shostak, while this is the interstellar traveller's most likely identity, we can't say for sure it's not a flying saucer.

This is the first colour-composite image of the interstellar object, published MondayCredit: Gemini Observatory

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"We can't rule out that this is an interstellar probe," Dr Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, told The Sun. "If we get a closeup look, we may well see it has a metal exterior with portholes and little green faces looking out at us. "However, I would bet next month's pay cheque this is a comet."

Dr Shostak, 76, has won numerous awards for his work, which among other things involves scanning the stars for signals sent out by aliens.

Artist's impression of the interstellar object Oumuamua

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He's a top scientist at the SETI Institute, a UFO-hunting non-profit dedicated to finding out if we're alone in the universe.

If C/2019 really is from another star system, it would be only the second interstellar visitor ever known to have reached the Solar System.

The first, a cigar-shaped object called Oumuamua, took the world by storm when it careened past Earth in 2017.

A pair of Harvard scientists claimed it could be a spacecraft, sparking a frantic flurry of scans – including from SETI telescopes – as the object flew by.

What is Oumuamua?

Here's everything you need to know...

Oumuamua is a cigar-shaped asteroid that sped past Earth in 2017 Some boffins think the space rock was an alien probe sent by a distant civilisation It was spotted by scientists in Hawaii, and its name means 'scout' in Hawaiian Researchers involved in SETI- the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - used a powerful dish to scan Oumuamua They found no signs of radio signals, suggesting it wasn't an alien spaceship after all Recent research suggests that the object could have been ejected by a gas giant planet It's now moving away from Earth so fast that we're unlikely to ever find out

Experts found no signs of alien signals, and Oumuamua whizzed past Earth before its true origin could be determined.

Dr Shostak, 76, revealed to The Sun that SETI may soon train its scanning equipment on C/2019 to look for signs of life, much like it did Oumuamua.

"I have suggested to our SETI team that we give this new object a look with the Allen Telescope Array," the Virginia-born scientist said. "So maybe we will check it out."

C/2019 was spotted on August 30 by amateur Ukrainian astronomer Gennady Borisov, and scientists around the world have poured over it ever since. Dr Shostak is urging SETI scientists to take a look at the object with the Allen Telescope Array (pictured) 5 Dr Shostak is urging SETI scientists to take a look at the object with the Allen Telescope Array (pictured)Credit: SETI

"It's so exciting, we're basically looking away from all of our other projects right now," Dr Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Germany, told Business Insider last week.

Early images released on Monday suggest it's followed by a tail of dust.

That's typically what you see coming out the back of a comet, though scientists say they can't be sure that's what the object is.

Further observations of C/2019 have exposed the shape of its orbit. The elusive visitor could be piloted by hyper-intelligent beings 5 The elusive visitor could be piloted by hyper-intelligent beingsCredit: Getty - Contributor

If the object is indeed interstellar, scientists should be able to study it until early 2021, when it will grow too dim to see.

They'll largely focus on what it's made of, as well as where it came from, while alien fanatics wait with bated breath.

Dr Shostak strongly believes that life exists outside of Earth, and it may have even visited our planet in the past.

"I have no doubts that aliens are out there, we wouldn't be doing our work if I didn't believe that," he told The Sun.

"It’s even possible they've visited Earth at some point, maybe a billion years ago, maybe 100million years ago. We may never know." Mysterious object from interstellar space ‘approaching our solar system’


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: alien; c2019; callingartbell; comet; fakenews; rubbish; seti; space; ufo; yawn
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To: Red Badger

“It looks like a giant.....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSOmYyNHpU


21 posted on 09/19/2019 10:20:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zathras

I’ve often suspected that the whole Mayan calendar thing was tied to just that, we’re headed into a period of greatly increased asteroids. Their ages ended when they did or do, because in the past ages were literally ended by bombardment.


22 posted on 09/19/2019 10:21:41 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: DesertRhino
And they want me to give up my AR-15? No dice...

Thread winner!

23 posted on 09/19/2019 10:21:48 AM PDT by Politically Correct
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Well God has to take a dump too! Hope the used TP doesn’t show up anytime soon!


24 posted on 09/19/2019 10:22:01 AM PDT by gr8eman (Only the mediocre are always at their best)
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To: DesertRhino

“And they want me to give up my AR-15? No dice...”

LMAO!


25 posted on 09/19/2019 10:22:30 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BenLurkin

"DOODY!"

26 posted on 09/19/2019 10:22:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQE66WA2s-A

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US


27 posted on 09/19/2019 10:23:06 AM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Red Badger

28 posted on 09/19/2019 10:25:10 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: COBOL2Java
That's not a turd!

It's a Baby Ruth.

29 posted on 09/19/2019 10:25:35 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Red Badger

They come from Uranus!


30 posted on 09/19/2019 10:26:01 AM PDT by Gulf War One
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To: Red Badger

I’ll keep an open mind on this, but it’s more likely another tool of the left to denigrate religion, along with their environmental theories.


31 posted on 09/19/2019 10:26:52 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: Gulf War One

....OR they’re coming FOR URANUS!...............


32 posted on 09/19/2019 10:28:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

The spacecraft is from the Red Dirt people.

They are unlikely to contact us because they believe nobody could survive on a high moisture planet like earth.


33 posted on 09/19/2019 10:29:35 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Zathras

We passed thru the Galactic plane in December 2012................


34 posted on 09/19/2019 10:29:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Gamecock

Don’t you think I know that?!


35 posted on 09/19/2019 10:31:45 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s been identified as an interstellar comet. It’s spectrum looks like our solar system comets’ spectrum.


36 posted on 09/19/2019 10:32:51 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Red Badger

What’s on Page 2? A new sighting of Batboy?


37 posted on 09/19/2019 10:33:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

You could be right.................

38 posted on 09/19/2019 10:37:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

“It’s a cookbook....it’s a cookbook...”


39 posted on 09/19/2019 10:39:09 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Red Badger

Another Space Turd ?


40 posted on 09/19/2019 10:42:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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