A11pl3Z
A mysterious visitor from another star is getting close
A giant interstellar object named #A11pl3Z is speeding toward our Sun from deep space.
It’s not from our solar system, its strange path proves that. Around 20 km wide, it's far bigger than the earlier visitors like #Oumuamua.
It's moving at nearly 68 km/s and will pass near Mars and the Sun later this year. Scientists still don’t know if it’s a comet or asteroid, but it could carry clues from another star system.
https://x.com/SpaceMechanicsY/status/1940501810428752343?t=dL00HmgXVSZkAY574EEncw&s=19
A new third interstellar visitor -probably an asteroid- A11pl3Z has been discovered on July 1.
It has a high eccentric hyperbolic orbit (65km/sec speed) & size 20km. Its perihelion will be on October 29, 2025.
GIF: K Ly/Deep Random Survey, Chile
🧵What if ʻOumuamua was just step one... and A11pl3Z is the follow-up?
Back in 2017, something strange flew through our solar system.
It didn’t stop or orbit, it just passed through.
Let's discuss 'the Mothership theory'👇
https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1940745360131145732?t=EnBoNNEk9ZOT0qLtcBvoBw&s=19
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Scientists named it ʻOumuamua, which means "scout" or "messenger" in Hawaiian.
And that’s exactly how it acted.
It showed up unannounced, did a quick pass, and disappeared. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb openly suggested it could be alien tech, possibly a solar sail or autonomous probe.
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Now in 2025, we’ve got A11pl3Z.
It’s coming in from interstellar space like ʻOumuamua, but this one’s bigger, possibly over 200 meters across and it’s heading closer to the Sun.
Just like before, no tail, no emissions. It’s quiet, too quiet.
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This is where my theory gets weird!
What if ʻOumuamua was a scout sent ahead to observe and collect data, and A11pl3Z is the larger craft? Something that follows up once the scan is complete?
Not here to land, just to pass through again, but slower and maybe even watching.
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Think about how we’d explore deep space.
First you send a lightweight probe, something cheap and fast, to sniff around a target star system. Then later, you send the real hardware, the data retriever, the mothership.
Why wouldn’t someone or something else do the same?
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If A11pl3Z starts shedding smaller objects, changes speed in a way physics can't explain, or shows material that reacts unnaturally to sunlight, it’s going to get very real, very fast.
And this time, we’ve got the instruments to watch it.
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A11pl3Z will be monitored closely as it swings past the Sun. If it's just another space rock, we’ll know soon enough.
But if it isn’t, we might be witnessing something no generation before us has ever seen with clarity.
A second pass, a second look.
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No lights in the sky, or broadcast to Earth.
Just something drifting through, scanning quietly. Maybe artificial or possibly ancient.
ʻOumuamua came and went. Now something else is on approach, and that should at least make you wonder.
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Of course this is just theory and wild speculation, but there is always a chance that this could be confirmation, that we are not alone! 🧵/End
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https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1940745381790314542?t=XE33sXm7eEwj3t8ge3bSww&s=19
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