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By UAPResearcher
The latest video from Cosmic Road raises an intriguing point about a supposed giant UFO spotted on the Sun, among other topics related to UAPs. While the video compiles various sightings and updates, the specific focus on a solar anomaly certainly catches the eye. What makes this particularly interesting is the lack of detailed evidence provided regarding the claim about the giant UFO and how it was identified.
In the realm of solar observations, anomalies like this often spark debate. Historically, many interpretations of solar phenomena have turned out to be misidentified space debris, camera artifacts, or even plasma interactions. Without further evidence or credible sources to substantiate the claim of a giant UFO on the Sun, it remains a point of interest rather than a confirmed case.
The video’s content also delves into other UAP sightings, which may provide context for how the community is currently interpreting these phenomena. It’s essential to differentiate between genuine, well-documented sightings and those that primarily serve to engage an audience without rigorous verification. The video does not seem to provide any new official reports or disclosures, which limits its value for those seeking concrete information.
Viewer reactions in the comments indicate a mix of skepticism and intrigue, highlighting the ongoing interest in UAP phenomena, while also expressing caution about the claims made. This reflects a broader trend in the UFO community, where videos can stir significant discussion, but the line between entertainment and credible investigation often blurs.
Given the persistent fascination with both solar anomalies and UAPs, how do we balance our interest in these topics with the need for rigorous analysis and evidence? Can claims like the one made in this video lead to more substantial investigation, or do they detract from the serious study of UAPs? It would be interesting to see if any follow-up discussions arise that provide greater clarity on this topic.
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By USH
A huge ball of light exploded over the erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines on May 25, 2026, sparking speculation and raising new questions about what was actually seen in the sky.
The dramatic event was captured by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology while the volcano was actively erupting. Footage showed a bright object descending toward Mayon’s northern slopes before exploding in a flash of light. Initial reports suggested the object may have struck the volcano directly.
However, after reviewing seismic, infrasound, and camera data, officials concluded that the object most likely disintegrated in the atmosphere just moments before impact.
According to reports, the glowing object approached from a direction unrelated to the volcanic eruption itself. Many believe it may have been a meteor, yet questions remain. If it truly was a meteor exploding in the atmosphere, it is unusual that there has been little mention of any shockwave damage on the ground, similar to what occurred during the famous Chelyabinsk meteor event.
Whatever the explanation may be, the strange incident has fueled speculation and left many wondering whether the mysterious ball of light was really just a meteor. View the full article
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By Avi Loeb Medium
Two-dimensional visualization of an Alcubierre warp drive, showing the opposing regions of expanding and contracting spacetime that displace the central region. (Image Credit: Wikimedia)Trustworthy military pilots report about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that exceed the performance envelope of human-made technologies. In a testimony before Congress, the Retired Navy Commander David Fravor reported seeing in 2004 white `Tic-Tac’ shaped objects that are of order 10-meter long , descending about 30 kilometers in less than a second.
Some interpreters were quick to suggest that UAP might be warp drives invented by magical thinking in science fiction narratives.
But there is also a scientific counterpart to this concept. By warping space inside a bubble, a spacecraft inside the bubble could be propelled to a spatial speed faster than light. This possibility is manifested in the Alcubierre drive, a theoretical steady-state solution to Einstein’s equations of General Relativity. The Alcubierre metric in the time (t) and space (x,y,z) coordinates can be written as: , where is the speed of the warp bubble, is the shape function of the bubble and is the radial distance from the bubble center located at . The creation of such a bubble requires an exotic substance with negative energy density, in violation of the Weak Energy Condition of Einstein’s General Relativity. We do not know if such a substance exists. If it exists, it might be possible to create a time machine and go back in time.
In a warp bubble moving at a speed comparable to the speed of light, the distortion of spacetime is large — of order unity. When such a spacetime structure moves through air, it would move around the air molecules at roughly the speed of light during a period of order the light crossing time of the bubble. The inevitable collisions of these molecules with each other will heat up the air around the bubble to an extremely high temperature, triggering the formation of a fireball.
The supersonic motion of the air would inevitably lead to dissipation of heat and an outward moving blast wave that would cool through the emission of radiation. How bright might the fireball be?
Assuming energy conservation, the heat deposited in air would eventually be radiated away. For a bubble that moves molecules around near the speed of light, the dissipated power could be at most of order the rest mass energy of the air within the bubble volume divided by the light crossing time of the bubble. For an object of 10 meters in size, this corresponds to a maximum radiation power of roughly ten times the luminosity of the Sun. An Alcubierre Warp Drive on the length scale of the `Tic-Tac’ objects reported by Navy Commander David Fravor could shine brighter than the Sun. Clearly, this was not observed in 2004.
In reality, the radiative luminosity would be somewhat smaller because the reduced cross-section for molecular collisions at relativistic velocities but not enough to make the fireball faint enough to be consistent with Fravor’s testimony. Even though the luminosity scales with the area of the warp bubble, it could still approach a tenth of the Sun’s luminosity for a meter-size bubble. The luminosity scales with the air speed cubed, but that speed cannot be smaller than 10 kilometers per second based on Fravor’s testimony. At that minimum speed, a meter-size bubble would still shine with a power of 30 terawatts, ten times larger than the average electric power consumption throughout the world. Surely, such a bright source of light was not seen in 2004.
Of course, we can always imagine new physics but any such physics should be contemplated only if supported by indisputable evidence from exquisite scientific instrumentation.
Is there a caveat to Fravor’s report? When driving in a highway, we might see a black car behind us in the rearview mirror and then shortly thereafter notice the same type of black car in front of us. Without verifying that the license plates are identical, our eyewitness testimony does not mean that we saw the car moving at an extraordinary speed. Our two data points might be associated with two independent cars coming in and out of view.
This caveat calls for a rigorous scientific study of UAP — triggered by Fravor’s repoty, which is precisely the rationale behind the Galileo Project that I am leading. As of now, the Galileo research team is able to measure distances to objects in the sky through the method of triangulation from multiple observing units (as discussed here). This allows to unambiguously measure the velocity and acceleration of objects with well-calibrated scientific instrumentation.
Recently, we invited here the public here to be engaged in our data analysis as a way of establishing the ground truth for our machine-learning software in its search for UAP.
Here’s hoping that in the coming months and years, the Galileo research team will shed new light on the origin of the unusual `Tic-Tac’ objects reported by Navy Commander David Fravor.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Social media:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
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By Avi Loeb Medium
A Sun-grazing comet, as observed by SOHO. (Image Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO)The latest two puzzles about 3I/ATLAS stem from its large inferred size and mass (as reported here). First, its parent population cannot be supplied by the mass reservoir of planetary systems around old metal-poor stars (as I argued here). Second — its mass of a billion metric tons is 5 orders of magnitude larger than the final mass of 1I/`Oumuamua, implying that we should have discovered a hundred thousand interstellar objects on the mass scale of 1I/`Oumuamua before seeing one giant object like 3I/ATLAS (as I argued here).
Altogether, the full list of 22 anomalies for 3I/ATLAS (summarized here) is particularly timely, as the mysterious object comes closest to Jupiter today on its way out of the Solar System. If the passage near Jupiter will not reveal any new insight on 3I/ATLAS, we will be left with many questions about its nature and origin.
Can we hope to learn more about future interstellar visitors?
The best way to examine visitors to our cosmic back yard is to interrogate them under extreme heat. This opportunity is realized for Sun-grazing trajectories. In 2019, I co-authored a paper (published here) with my then-postdoc, John Forbes, which explored the statistics of close encounters between interstellar objects and the Sun. Objects similar to 1I/`Oumuamua collide with the Sun once every 30 years. A Sun-grazing passage would vaporize any solid surface, unraveling the composition and structure of the object’s interior by detailed observations from the Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii or the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in space.
On April 4, 2026, we will have a unique opportunity to witness a rare Sun-grazing encounter by the large object, C/2026 A1 (MAPS), which was discovered on January 13, 2026 from the AMACS1 Observatory in Chile. The object will pass within 161,000 kilometers (23.1% of the Solar radius) from the surface of the Sun. From the vantage point of Earth, the object will enter Solar conjunction behind the Sun on April 4, 2026 at 13:19 UTC and appear in front of the Sun at 15:34 UTC, in both case being separated by 0.04 degrees from the center of the Sun.
The unusual trajectory of C/2026 A1 (MAPS) suggests that it is a member of a yet unknown group of comets that are bound gravitationally to the Sun. Could it be a fragment that broke off 3I/ATLAS and was launched into a bound orbit around the Sun? Probably no, because its inferred diameter of somewhat less than 2.4 kilometers is comparable to that of 3I/ATLAS, and the orbital inclination of C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is 144.5 degrees, about 30.6 degrees away from the 175.1 degrees inclination for 3I/ATLAS.
C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will pass through the solar corona and reach perihelion with a peak speed of 557 kilometers per second (0.2% of the speed of light) on 4 April 2026 at 14:21 UTC. At that time, it will be separated from the center of the Sun by 0.57% of the Earth-Sun separation. It will then make closest approach to Earth on 5 April 2026 at 23:56 UTC when it will be at a distance of 143.8 million kilometers (96.1% of the Sun’s distance) from Earth.
Observing the fireworks as this object burns up and breaks close to the Sun will reveal new details about its composition and material strength.
Before my morning jog at sunrise today, I received the following uplifting email about C/2026 A1 (MAPS):
“Dear Professor Loeb,
I want to truly thank you for your intellectual courage. In a field that too often punishes curiosity, you have chosen the path of truth over comfort and you have had a profound impact on our children. We have been watching you refuse to dismiss the unexplained and face backlash from a stagnant scientific community. This rare quality has given children around the world the conviction that pursuing truth is worth the cost of facing criticism or being unpopular. You are truly one of the great scientists of our time and one can only hope that the censorship and elitism we see in the science community specifically and society as a whole can be diminished.
After seeing the myriad anomalies with 3i ATLAS, we have been applying this same curiosity to other objects passing through our celestial neighborhood. There has been relatively little coverage of another unique guest- C/2026 A1 (MAPS). Headlines have been quick to file it under “Kreutz sungrazer” and move on but the data resists that tidy label. Its orbital period of nearly 1,900 years is at least twice as long as any other Kreutz members. It was detected 81 days before perihelion at a distance of greater than 2 AU!! That’s significantly farther from the Sun than any previously known Kreutz comet and suggests unusual size or extraordinary activity. And now its brightness is running dramatically ahead of predictions, currently around magnitude 9.9, with no satisfying conventional explanation for why it is brightening so aggressively at this stage.
These anomalies raise questions I would love your perspective on:
1. Given that MAPS appears orbitally inconsistent with the Kreutz family of comets, should it be treated as an unclassified object until better data is available?
2. Could the runaway brightening indicate something unusual about the composition or structure of the nucleus that standard cometary models don’t account for?
3. Can this possibly survive its close encounter with our sun and put on the greatest show of the millennium?
You have shown that the most important questions are often the ones we are most reluctant to ask. My family is grateful for that example.
With deep respect and love,
Chris and Stephanie Francois and our kids
Joshua, Nicholas, Savannah, Thomas, Enzo and Sophia”
Shortly afterwards, I had received the following email from the poet Alan Wagstaff in New Zealand:
“Dear Dr Loeb,
Here’s my response to your oft-mentioned ideas about confirmation bias in science.
It’s a formal sonnet.
I hope it communicates. It’s a complex idea and has a slight humorous edge.
Best wishes
Alan
‘A man sees what he wants to see…’ *
I’m nonplussed since you visited my home,
in part, because you dropped in — unannounced.
It seems so weird: you never said ‘shalom’,
‘aloha’, or ‘hello’. Instead, you bounced
and squeaked, high pitched, and droned, bee-like, off-key.
You hovered in mid-air and softly whined.
“No chance,” I mused, “that you could be E.T!”
For certain, you’re not extra-humankind,
since mainstream physics locks us in a vault,
which shuts-out off-world creatures’ whims.
Your purple tendrils, signing us to ‘halt’,
in truth were plant fronds I mistook for limbs.
Since you’re not human from some unknown tribe.
You must be Terra-cryptid, I decide.
Alan Wagstaff
* from ‘The Boxer’ Paul Simon”
(Image credit: Alan Wagstaff)ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Social media:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
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By Avi Loeb Medium
Orbit of 3I/ATLAS relative to the Sun in the ecliptic plane of the Earth around the Sun (with 1au being the Earth-Sun separation). Closest approach (perihelion) is marked by a yellow star, and the endpoints of the observational arc used for the orbit determination are indicated by open circles. Gray shading denotes the region where 3I/ATLAS goes under the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun, as the retrograde orbit of 3I/ATLAS is inclined by 5 degrees relative to the ecliptic. The Sun and the orbits of the major planets out to Jupiter are shown for reference. (Image credit: F. Spada, M. Królikowska and L. Dones, in a paper posted here on March 3, 2026)Today, a new paper reported the most comprehensive analysis of the non-gravitational acceleration of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Its results differ from the official NASA report, posted on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Small Body Database here.
Whereas NASA reports a radial acceleration component away from the Sun that is 5 times larger than the tangential component along the direction of motion of 3I/ATLAS, the new paper derives similar amplitudes for the radial and tangential components. The new analysis suggests that 3I/ATLAS is pushed sideways and not simply away from the Sun — as implied by the official analysis of Davide Farnocchia from NASA/JPL. Yes, official statements from NASA can be wrong. Science is a learning experience.
Does a large non-radial acceleration make sense? Yes, according to high-resolution images of 3I/ATLAS. Observations from August 2026 when 3I/ATLAS was approaching the Sun, reported here the existence of collimated, high-latitude jets that display a periodic wobble consistent with nucleus rotation. This morphology indicated localized sources of mass loss rather than uniform sublimation of the nucleus, which could trigger significant non-radial acceleration. In two papers that I co-authored with Toni Scarmato here and here, we removed the circular glow around the nucleus in the highest-resolution post-perihelion images of 3I/ATLAS from the Hubble Space Telescope, and discovered three symmetrically-separated mini-jets in addition to a prominent sunward jet (anti-tail), modulated by a 7.1 hours rotational period and consistent with a spin-axis orientation within 20 degrees of the sunward direction. Such a configuration naturally favors strongly directional gas and dust emission, capable of generating a transverse acceleration component which is comparable in magnitude to the radial one. It would be interesting to use the geometry of this jet system and demonstrate that the non-gravitational force on the nucleus yields a tangential acceleration comparable in magnitude to the radial one, based on the mass outflow carried by the different jets.
The conclusions of the new paper are based on examining a variety of orbital solutions that implement symmetric, time-offset, and asymmetric radial dependence of the outgassing relative to perihelion. The radial and normal components of the non-gravitational acceleration (labeled, A1 and A3) are broadly consistent across all solutions, whereas the transverse component (A2) is more sensitive to data selection, parameter correlations, and orbital phase coverage. The magnitude of the non-gravitational acceleration can be used to constrain the nucleus diameter of 3I/ATLAS, which most recently was inferred here to be 2.6 kilometers.
The total magnitude of the non-gravitation acceleration is small, about a micrometer (a percent of the width of a human hair) per second squared. It corresponds to a spatial offset by half the radius of the Moon over a period of a month. This offset is smaller than the Earth-Sun separation by a factor of 200,000 and is therefore of negligible significance in shifting the path of 3I/ATLAS relative to the Sun or the planets.
The origin of the symmetric system of 3 mini-jets, separated equally by 120 degrees from each other, remains enigmatic. Does it constitute a technological signature of thrusters? We do not know.
***
Before my morning jog at sunrise, I received the following uplifting message from the poet Alan Wagstaff in New Zealand.
“Dear Dr Loeb,
You said in a recent essay:
‘This could be done by attending a science-fiction movie, subscribing to belief cults on social-media, using metaverse goggles or taking recreational drugs. These virtual realities bend constraints at will and give rise to a pleasing experience that makes us happy. ‘
May I add, science imaginings sometimes provide the impulse which launches clear thinkers into science proper? So long as fact and fiction are not conflated, this is positive. As Robert H. Goddard once said in a letter to H. G. Wells:
“In 1898 I read your ‘War of the Worlds’. I was sixteen years old … It made a deep impression … The spell did not break … and I took up physics.”
(Goddard went on to become a foundational figure in rocketry and launch physics, eventually pioneering liquid-fueled rockets that laid the groundwork for the Space Age.)
In the light of this, I revisited my poem ’Three Magi’ and honed it. Perhaps it will light a spark somewhere that will provoke real science in some young student’s mind.
Kind regards
Alan”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Social media:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
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