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Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible.

In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region by the means of "dandelion seeds" — small spacecraft that can gather and send back information, similar to the way humans send out spacecraft to explore planets.

Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University, and Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — established in July 2022 by the Department of Defense (DoD) to detect and study "objects of interest" — released the draft, Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, on March 7. It is not an official Pentagon document, but was carried out in partnership with the DoD. It has not been peer-reviewed.

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> According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible.
> In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood

On its face, the two statements above aren't really saying anything except "maybe there are aliens". That's the History Channel game.

> It has not been peer-reviewed.

This is very important. It's not science without peer-review. It may as well be astrology.

This is just a fluff piece on some junk science.