The hypothesis that aliens long ago a ‘mothership’ through the galaxywith the ability to launch its own smaller probes to visit the interesting planets it passes through, including Earth, was raised in a scientific article.

He Dr. Sean Kirkpatrickdirector of the Pentagon’s UFO unit called the All Domains Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and former chairman of the Harvard Department of Astronomy, the Professor Avi Loebpublished the six-page investigation into the UFO phenomenon.

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“An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a matrix ship that releases many small probes as it passes near Earth.an operational construct similar to NASA missions,” Loeb and Kirkpatrick wrote in their paper. According to experts, the James Webb Space Telescope would not be able to observe such small objects, but “our deep space radars and space fence” could detect incoming UFOs up to several meters long. Be able to detect 36,000 km in the air.

These objects too they could become optically detectable as they get closer to Earthespecially if they create a fireball due to their friction with the air,” says the study Physical limitations in unidentified aerial phenomena.

That’s what scientists say because any object traveling faster than sound will leave a friction trailany footage that appears to show objects traveling at supersonic speeds with no such features must be a misidentification, and likely shows a smaller, slower object closer to the cameraor any other statement.

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“It is important to note that given the timescales associated with the propulsion scheme discussed here, it is unreasonable to argue that the intent of such a probe launched in the distant past has anything to do with the human species. More likely, and similar to NASA missions, the target would be scientific and exploratory in nature,” the article states.

In an interview with the DailyMail portal, Professor Loeb explained that they only hypothetically increase the likelihood that other civilizations exist.

“Our planet is not unique. There are billions of planets like Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. So, why would we think this is unusual?”