India, Oct. 31 -- Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, in a recent conversation regarding the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, stirred global debate. Loeb, who had earlier claimed that 2017's 'Oumuamua could be alien technology, now argues that 3I/ATLAS might also be of artificial origin, setting off another storm in the scientific community.

Here are five major claims Loeb has made about 3I/ATLAS:

Loeb has suggested that 3I/ATLAS could have been "manufactured" rather than formed through natural cosmic processes. He wrote on his Medium blog that the object's composition, brightness, and trajectory hint at non-natural origins. It could possibly be a remnant or probe sent by extraterrestrial intelligence.

"If it were built by another civilizati...