Research Claims There Could Be 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft In Our Solar System

Famed Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb strikes again, this time with an exhilarating yet-to-be-peer reviewed research that claims there might be about 4 quintillion (4,000,000,000,000,000,000) alien spacecraft in our solar system.

Four quintillion alien spacecraft could be lurking in our solar system, the speculative study says. The study was spotted first by The Daily Beast, and builds on the discovery of an interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua in 2017.

There's still no consensus on what 'Oumuamua is, but Loeb believes that we should be open to the possibility of it being an alien spacecraft.

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Assessing potential alien spacecraft

Harvard astronomers Loeb and Carson Ezell wanted to assess how many interstellar visitors we might have had. "One can use recent rates of detection of interstellar objects and known capabilities to estimate the density of similar objects in the solar neighborhood," astronomers wrote in the study, as quoted by The Daily Beast.

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'Oumuamua / Credit: NASA

Since 'Oumuamua was found, astronomers have found three more interstellar objects, taking the total to four objects in eight years. Based on this rate, Loeb and Ezell claim that there could be about 40 decillion interstellar objects in our solar system - especially in the regions that our instruments cannot read.

To account for the habitable zone near the Sun, the number stands at 4 quintillion! Loeb is not suggesting that aliens are waiting to be discovered in a giant rock, but instead that there are so many space objects humanity could explore in our own backyard. And some of them could as well be alien spacecraft!

Avi Loeb | Credit: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty

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References

(2022, October).?RESEARCH CLAIMS THERE MIGHT BE UP TO 4 QUINTILLION ALIEN SPACECRAFT IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Futurism.?https://futurism.com/the-byte/research-quintillion-alien-spacecraft

(2022, October).?There May Be 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft Buzzing in Our Solar System. The Daily Beast.?https://www.thedailybeast.com/harvard-astronomer-avi-loeb-says-there-might-be-4-quintillion-alien-spacecraft-in-our-solar-system