So, uh… should we cancel our Halloween plans or nah? 🎃 Because according to a bunch of conspiracy sites, aliens might make first contact TODAY. Yup — apparently, an interstellar comet zooming past our solar system is at its closest point to the sun right now, and some people think it’s actually… a mothership. 🚀
Experts say this comet — only the third ever seen from outside our solar system — is about the size of Manhattan and unlike anything we’ve seen before. Cue the X-Files theme 🎶. Fans of the theory believe that if this is an alien ship, today would be the perfect time to fire up the boosters and use the sun’s gravity as a slingshot to head our way. 😳
Harvard professor Avi Loeb has fueled the hype after joking on a podcast that maybe you should take your vacation before the 29th. 😂 (He wasn’t serious, but the Internet took it and ran with it, of course.)
In reality, scientists say the odds of any kind of “first contact” are slim to none — but hey, if your phone gets a weird signal or your dog starts barking at the sky, maybe keep an eye out. 👀✨
