Alien Probe or Space Rock? The Mystery of 3I/ATLAS

[00:00:00]Is this an alien spaceship flying through our solar system?

[00:00:04]Meet 3I/Atlas, the mysterious interstellar visitor that divided [music] scientists.

[00:00:11]As the third interstellar object ever detected here, its strange behavior had some experts wondering if it was an extraterrestrial [music] scout ship. To find out, astronomers at the SETI Institute pointed the massive Allen Telescope Array right [music] at it, scanning for artificial radio signals.

[00:00:31]Over 7 hours, >> [music] >> they picked up 74 million signals. Could this be first contact? They filtered the noise, narrowing it down to just 200 mysterious pings.

[00:00:45]Plot twist. Further [music] checks revealed every single signal came from Earth's own technology or orbiting satellites.

[00:00:53]3I/Atlas is officially just a weird space rock.

[00:00:58]While it's not alien this time, >> [music] >> scientists proved our tech can detect alien signals if they're out there. The hunt continues.