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A famous actor and comedian has the internet talking after alleging that he heard a planet-sized object is heading toward Earth.
Michael Ian Black, formerly of The State and presently a panelist on Have I Got News for You, recently gave an interview to the Vetted podcast. In the interview, he revealed some startling information.
According to Black, he “became friendly with somebody in the UFO community.” Consequently, he was invited to a small Signal chat to discuss UFO news and information. For context, Signal is an encrypted private messaging app.
“Over the course of 18 months or so, this story begins to emerge from the person who invited me in that there is an object. It’s planet-sized. It’s coming from out of our solar system into our solar system. It is decelerating. It has been decelerating for a couple of years, I think, at that point. And, it’s expected to enter our solar system around 2027,” Black states.
The biggest bombshell? “It’s intelligently controlled.”
What Is This?
Black then says he was provided with an image of the mysterious object.
“It was gray, it was round, it could have been anything,” he states.
Initially, Black says he expressed skepticism about this story.
“As soon as I heard ‘planet-sized,’ I was like, ‘Wait, that doesn’t make any sense to me at all, because it seems to me if you have a planet-sized object entering your solar system, other planets are gonna feel that. Like, we’re gonna see that. It’s gonna show up,” he says. “Then again, just because something’s planet-sized doesn’t mean it has planet-sized mass. So, I don’t know.”
Black then references a video released by ufologist Jeremy Corbell. In this video, Corbell states that the governments of the world would soon be pushing a lie that “there’s an object approaching Earth, and it’ll be here in 2027.” Black isn’t sure what to make of this, but he calls it “a huge data point.”
In a blog post, Black stated that he tends to favor Corbell’s explanation.
“I don’t know who’s telling the truth about this, but I’m going to apply Occam’s Razor here and say it’s far more likely that somebody wants to convince people about an imminent alien incursion than there actually being an alien incursion. So I’m siding with Corbell on this one,” Black writes.
So, What’s Really Going On Here?
Chances are high that all of these claims—that there’s a planet-sized mass heading toward Earth, or that there’s a concerted effort to push the lie that there is one—are entirely fake.
First, neither side of the debate has provided any evidence for their claims whatsoever. There are no space agencies in any country on Earth claiming that this is actually going to happen. Additionally, no research confirms the existence of a planet-sized object approaching our solar system for a 2027 arrival.
For this to be the case, such an object would have to be collectively recognized and ignored by space agencies across the world. This includes nations currently at conflict with each other. While such coordination is theoretically possible, the people proposing these theories provide no evidence of its existence. Explanations of the supposed object instead tend to rely on the alleged existence of a cover-up, not of the object itself.
There is also zero evidence of any “intelligently controlled” object. As previously covered by BroBible, recent claims of “intelligently controlled” space phenomena are largely disputed and have little evidence.
What About Corbell’s Prediction?
Second, as previously noted by BroBible, Corbell’s prediction regarding a mass disinformation push is effectively meaningless. In the original claim, he says that governments want people to believe an object is arriving in 2027. He also adds that, now that he’s revealed this information, the specifics around the plan might change. Such a caveat effectively negates the entire claim.
To provide an example, if someone claimed that they discovered a government-run weather machine that was sure to make it rain today—but that, now that they’ve revealed the information, the plans might change—any weather event after such a claim suddenly becomes explicable. Rain means that the claimant was right; no rain means that the government realized people were on their tail and canceled their plans. Snow or another weather event means that they simply changed the machine, but the spirit of the claim was still correct.
Is The Year 2027 Important?
So, why the year 2027? The real answer is it’s just a year that’s been passed around UFO circles for some time. While discussions of 2027 became more popular last year, Black himself notes in his blog post that several others in the UFO community have spent years referencing the 2026 to 2027 time period as important.
In fact, in 2023, a thread on Reddit’s r/aliens noted the popularity of the year 2027. The post simply asks, “What’s the Deal With 2027?” Commenters in the thread seemed to come to the consensus that the selection of the year was somewhat arbitrary.
To summarize, you probably don’t need to worry about an intelligently-controlled planet-sized object hitting the world anytime soon. You also (probably) don’t need to worry about a disinformation campaign to try to get you to believe that’s actually happening.
Should you worry about aliens at all? The answer to that question is up to you.
BroBible reached out to the Vetted podcast via website contact form and Black via Facebook and Instagram direct message.