3I/ATLAS Will Be Closest To Earth On December 16; Michio Kaku Explains If Earthlings Will Face Alien Threat (Watch)

In his recent interview at News Nation channel, Professor Michio Kaku, a popular science educator and author, dropped his two cents on Professor Avi Loeb’s speculations on 3I/ATLAS. The 78-year-old American theoretical physicist remarked on the anomalous behavior documented by his Harvard peer. Kaku stated,

I’m tracking these anomalies, some bizarre behavior. What are the odds that we’re dealing with something, not just old, but something that’s extraterrestrial in nature? I think it’s non-zero, but it’s very small.

He further stated,

So far, it looks like an ordinary comet. It behaves like an ordinary comet. And except for a few anomalies, it does act like an ordinary comet.

On the buzz that the interstellar interloper could be an alien spaceship and whether it will be a threat to mankind, Kaku, the author of “The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything” (2021), quipped,

Well, there’s a possibility. You have to put probabilities with regard to all the speculation. Avi Loeb was very careful later on to say that the probability of his speculations is quite low.

Personally, I don’t think so. I think it’s quite a distance away.

He continued,

We’re not gonna be invaded by aliens from a Hollywood movie set. So I think that it’s harmless. It’s so far away that we’re not gonna be endangered.

Kaku further remarked on how the pysche of the public would be if the alien spaceship speculation was propagated and turned out to be a false alarm. He said

You have to say that what is the level of confidence on this speculation? Is it 100%? Is it 1%? Otherwise, you panic the public, and the public wants to know the truth. Because afterwards, if it turns out it was a false alarm, then there’s gonna be a public backlash. People are gonna say, what, we wasted all our efforts, and there was no danger at all? So I think when you mentioned the dangers, you have to quantify it to say how realistic is this estimate? I know that you warned if 3I/Atlas picks up extra energy as it whips around the sun, that would mean in no uncertain terms that some intelligence is guiding it.

Is there any indication some intelligence may be guiding this? Kaku states

So far, no. However, there’s been some speculation that it seems to be speeding up a little bit as it goes around the sun. That’s kind of concerning.

I mean, the quote was that intelligence would be there if it sped up around the sun. No, and it did. To a slight degree, right. And however, there are reasons why it could happen. For example, maybe the comet broke a piece of it off. Maybe there was outgassing of the comet.

There could be reasons that explain why there’s a sudden spurt in velocity. So that’s not a smoking gun. That doesn’t nail it to the wall.

He further stated that there is nothing conclusive about the claim that the comet could be a probe steered by aliens.

It’s just one condition that we would use to guide us into thinking that perhaps there’s intelligent life there, but it’s not definitive. Yeah, what is the next thing that you are watching out for most closely then? What would be the smoking gun, nail it to the wall, other than, of course, it just landing? And like you said, some creatures crawling out from a Hollywood set. Yeah, well, I think if E.T. phones home, that would clinch it right there.

What if they indeed are and try to communicate? Kaku jibes,

Well, if they try to communicate with us, some kind of Morse code, some kind of language that we would understand, or some mathematical language, for example, that would clinch it. Rather than getting static on a radio, getting an alien civilization share their knowledge with us. That would nail it to the wall.

3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet, noted for its unusual characteristics. With deepfake AI videos of me making claims on this subject, I appeared on @NewsNation to offer my official authentic assessment of this strange space object. #3IATLAS pic.twitter.com/BJDE65X7u1
— Dr. Michio Kaku (@michiokaku) November 10, 2025

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