All articles
Every article in The Watchlist, newest first.
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3I/ATLAS and the Push Near the Sun
3I/ATLAS is a comet from another star system, found on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope at Rio Hurtado, Chile. In July 2025 Avi Loeb and two colleagues asked whether it could be technology, citing its path past three planets and a possible push of its own. This is the record of that push: the claim, the measurements made since, and what is still open.
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Oumuamua and the 2018 Measurement of a Push Nobody Saw
Oumuamua is the first object known to have entered the solar system from another star, found by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Maui in October 2017. In 2018 a team led by Marco Micheli measured a push gravity does not explain, and Avi Loeb argued it could be a light sail. This article sets out the record, the sail case, the comet account and what that account still leaves open.
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David Grusch Under Oath and the Pentagon's Historical Record
On 26 July 2023 David Grusch, a former Air Force and intelligence officer, testified under oath to a House subcommittee that the US government runs a crash retrieval and reverse engineering program and holds non-human biologics. In March 2024 the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office published a 63-page review of the historical record that addresses the same claims. This is the record of both, what each covers, and what is still open.