Daily Mail News – Science
By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR
Published: 11:13 EST, 6 January 2026 | Updated: 20:29 EST, 6 January 2026
A shocking admission by the CIA has just reopened the mystery surrounding 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object speeding through our solar system.
Although NASA has claimed the object is an ordinary comet, an icy rock with a long tail of gas and dust, intelligence officials have refused to answer whether they investigated the possibility that 3I/ATLAS is an extraterrestrial craft.
In response to a November 2025 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the supposed comet, the CIA said it could ‘neither deny nor confirm the existence or nonexistence of records’ regarding 3I/ATLAS.
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