Panic grips social media as whispers of an 'alien invasion 2025' spread, triggered by telescope images capturing a colossal 'giant jet' erupting from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS toward the Sun, fuelling wild theories of extraterrestrial probes amid its perihelion approach.
Discovered on 1 July 2025 by NASA's ATLAS telescope in Chile, this third interstellar visitor—racing at 58 km/s from the Milky Way's edge—has astronomers buzzing with NASA Hubble images revealing a fan-shaped plume of gas and dust stretching 10,000 km, while Harvard's Avi Loeb warns of a potential 'black swan event' with 30-40% odds of alien tech.
