07/01/2026
When Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb learned that the Central Intelligence Agency had invoked its standard "neither confirm nor deny" response to a Freedom of Information Act request about 3I/ATLAS—an interstellar object currently hurtling through our solar system—he posed a question that has reverberated through UFO research circles: Why would America's premier intelligence agency classify the very existence of records about a cosmic object that NASA insists is merely a natural comet?
CIA invokes "neither confirm nor deny" on 3I/ATLAS records. Avi Loeb questions why intelligence agencies would classify a "mere comet."