The World Is Falling For It, Me Not So Much

Bruce and Sonny dive into the viral story about the "3I Atlas" alleged alien probe that's making headlines across major news networks and social media platforms in 2025.

• Hot weather comparison between Southern Illinois (94°F, feels like 106°F) and Phoenix, Arizona (88°F)
• Extensive coverage of the "3I Atlas" object that scientists claim might be an alien craft
• News clips from CBS and Fox featuring Harvard scientist Dr. Avi Loeb discussing the object
• The revelation that this entire story may have been planned since 2023 based on a previously published draft paper
• Bruce's skepticism about the alien narrative and suggestion it might be a distraction technique
• Question of what the public is being distracted from with this coordinated media coverage

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck
• 2:13 Hot Weather Report Comparisons
• 4:32 The 3I Atlas Alien Probe Story
• 10:09 Scientists and News Media Statements
• 15:32 The Truth About the 2023 Paper
• 19:16 Closing and Value for Value Reminder

Transcript

Bruce: 0:08

well, well, well, welcome to the ugly quacking duck podcast, the worst podcast in the known universe and we're proving it every episode, it's every episode. That's right. We are proving how bad we are. Welcome everybody. We're glad to have you aboard again and, like I said, this is the Ugly Quackin' Duck podcast. This is episode 119. And we are coming to you and recording out of where Sonny Our Midwest hideout.

Bruce: 0:53

That's right, our Midwest hideout in Southern Illinois. We are in our studio, which is not really a hideout, but it's like the place we go to hide from the rest of the world and take naps.

Sonny: 1:12

Oh, you take naps. I just hide out here with you.

Bruce: 1:17

Yep Boy, your mic sounds different. It's got a little bit deeper sound to it.

Sonny: 1:22

Oh, you noticed, did you? It may have been because you switched my mic again.

Bruce: 1:30

Well, I like the way that one sounds.

Sonny: 1:33

I kind of do too, it gives me a raspy sound.

Bruce: 1:40

Oh, a raspy sound. Well, Sonny, introduce yourself.

Sonny: 1:45

I think you already did Duh, I'm Sonny and I'm from the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. And I'm Bruce and I'm also from the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.

Bruce: 2:04

There we go, we introduced ourselves. Man, you're liking that gruffy sound? I am too. I think that sounds good. Well, we have another hot day in southern illinois. Um, it's very, very hot is it very, very hot it's very, very hot. Yep, it's 94 degrees right now in southern illinois and they say it feels like 106. Get that feels like it.

Sonny: 2:34

That's probably because they're standing in the sunlight yeah, that's a bad thing to do when it's hot. You need to be out in the shade.

Bruce: 2:44

This is very, very true, but you know how that goes. It is 54% humidity today. Air quality is a high 75. You know that's pretty high, but for around here it's not really that bad. Now, if we compare it to Phoenix Arizona, which we like to compare, it is 88 degrees out there. Really, that's what they say. Since I'm not there, I can't you know, you can't hold me to that, I'm just looking it up on the internet. But they say it's 88 degrees and it's 44 percent humidity, which is 10% less than us. 35 air quality. I don't know if that's a percent, just a number. I don't know how to call that, but it's 35 there, 75 here and we both have four mile an hour winds. Pretty well across the whole United States probably. Yep, that's what it is.

Sonny: 3:51

Hey, bruce. Yes, you have your ticket ready my ticket ready yeah, your ticket for your ride uh ticket for my ride.

Bruce: 4:04

I'm not sure where you're going with this, Sonny.

Sonny: 4:08

Oh, haven't you heard. There's a mothership on the way and, knowing how you're always talking about aliens, I figured you'd have a ticket on that ship ready to go.

Bruce: 4:23

Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard about that. No, I don't have a ticket.

Sonny: 4:28

Oh, come on, let's talk about that.

Bruce: 4:32

Well, I had some other news articles set up to talk about, but I guess we can talk about your news.

Sonny: 4:44

Yay.

Bruce: 4:52

A little bit of sci-fi. How about a lot of sci-fi? Well, I've only got about 21 minutes of record time left for this day or this month. No, for this time period, which ends quickly, soon. But we'll talk about a little bit. Um, it's called an alien probe. Yes, indeed, they call it 3i atlantis or atlantis, and uh, it started in the news about about July of this year supposedly, and we'll get to that conspiracy, but basically they started putting out on the news. I think CBS had a little bit of a chat with the scientists involved back maybe in this month. I'm not sure I'd have to go back and look this month. I'm not sure I'd have to go back and look it up, but there's a bunch of people on social media that got involved and started stirring the pot.

Sonny: 5:58

Oh yeah, stir the pot, make it cook, turn it over.

Bruce: 6:04

I'm not sure that's exactly what that means, but okay, we'll go that way. But a lot of the social media account people were stirring it up. There's a bunch of youtube videos that come out declaring a scientist had spoken, a harvard scientist had spoken, a Harvard scientist had spoken and said or actually I think they said scientist they made it plural because there was a kind of a group effort but they had said that the scientists declared this was an alien probe that they had spotted coming through the universe and through our solar system. And, uh, it got all riled up and I mean people were starting to buy into it. They even had a person of our congress contact the scientists and they asked about getting nasa.

Bruce: 7:08

You know we had a probe out there, um, in venus, I think. They were going to crash into that planet and they were asking if they could deter that and ship it out into the line of fire, basically where this alien probe or mothership was going to fly. And maybe they get heads up what's going on. And you may think this is all science fiction, but this was actually being talked about and I do believe none of it.

Sonny: 7:46

Oh, come on, you don't believe any of it. Nope, um.

Bruce: 7:52

But you like sci-fi, you like talking about aliens I love sci-fi, I love talking about aliens, but that doesn't mean I believe in them. But anyhow, you know, uh, what is that saying? Most of the world has bought into it, but me not so much. But that's for another story, another podcast. But basically what this story boils down to is a lot of the news media, a lot of the social media people including YouTube, tiktokok and there's reddit and a bunch of them started talking about this scientist who come out and said that this comet that's what it was designated as at first uh was not truly a natural phenomenon, but it was acting like it was controlled, that it was an alien. Maybe it was a mothership that was coming into this solar system to spy on us or to launch probes or some other phenomenon that they elected to tell us.

Sonny: 9:26

Oh, so you're saying they just made it up?

Bruce: 9:30

Oh, I wouldn't say that.

Sonny: 9:32

But you just did. No, you said that, oh okay they just made it up.

Bruce: 9:41

Yeah, they uh. Let me tell you all about it. This thing was um discovered on july 1st 2025, 2025, supposedly. And since that time there's been, like I said, news articles, stories. Go online and look them up, and it's just been. You know one thing it's just been a snowball effect trying to get everybody all riled up.

Bruce: 10:08

Supposedly it is going to pass by Venus, mars and Jupiter. It is going to pass by Venus, mars and Jupiter, which are saying the percentage of that happening is so high that it can't be counted, or something like that. But I guess, just because it's going to pick those three planets, who knows? But during that course, it's going to duck behind the sun. Their words, going to hide behind the sun, which we will not be able to see it, and they're saying, at that time would be a perfect time to launch probes or to attack Earth. Their words uh, but that's probably going to happen. But if it comes to earth, if it, I guess, detours and comes toward earth, it could reach earth around november, the 21st, through december 5th, sometime or another. That's what they're saying. Okay, you get that and remember that they were saying. Who are they? Again, the news media and the social media group. They're all getting these stories somewhere and they're propagating that into the citizens of the world so that you guys can all be afraid, be afraid, Be afraid.

Sonny: 11:42

Be afraid. Yeah, I know what you're doing, Bruce.

Bruce: 11:47

What am I doing, being afraid you got me started on this.

Sonny: 11:57

Oh, I don't, I know.

Bruce: 12:00

Well, anyhow, I was going to talk about a couple other non-interesting stories, but and since Sonny brought it up, we'll talk a little bit more about it. But anyway, they supposedly discovered this thing coming through the solar system and it's moving faster than anything that could come through their words, and I never did get pinpointed how fast it was. They was talking about kilometers an hour or something like that, but I don't know exactly what they were talking about.

Sonny: 12:40

I don't think we know what you're talking about, Bruce.

Bruce: 12:45

Well, that's good Anyhow to make up a long story. They actually had on CBS Boston. They had this Harvard scientist. Let me see if I can play some of it. All right, here we go Intelligently directed, and if it is alien, the world should prepare.

Speaker 4: 13:09

I think that when we have a blind date from a visitor from another star, all bets are off. We shouldn't assume anything and we should assess the risk, given the data that we have. It's just like the Richter scale for assessing the risk from earthquakes.

Bruce: 13:27

All right, that was from CBS and that was a scientist talking about it and that was a dr. Low, low boy, low l-o-e-b, and he's talking about the three eye atlas alien craft. Now they're not calling it you, you know an object any longer, they're calling it an alien craft. Wow, and here's another news media outlet, fox 10, out of let's see Phoenix, and let's hear what they got to say real quickly.

Speaker 3: 14:15

Last week and had wrote a letter to NASA asking that the Juno mission could direct part of that to study the 3I Atlas object in space. Can you tell us what's going on? Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4: 14:30

Yes, in fact, a week ago, last Tuesday, I received a phone call from Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and she wanted an update about the 3i Atlas, because it's not clear what the nature of this object is, and she was curious and we talked about it and I mentioned that just the day before, I wrote a scientific paper suggesting to use the Juno spacecraft, which is in orbit around Jupiter, and they were planning NASA was planning to crash it into Jupiter and end its mission because the mission started in 2011. It's now very long and I wrote in my paper that instead of pushing it into Jupiter, let's push it away from Jupiter towards the path of this new interstellar object.

Bruce: 15:19

All right, there you go. That's another news media outlet talking about it, and they got NASA talking about it and there's more and more online. But anyhow, the whole truth of the matter is are you ready for this? Here we go. Hannah osborne published march 22nd, 2023.

Bruce: 15:40

Did you hear that two years ago, in a few months, in life science magazine or on their website, they they published an article. It is entitled Alien Mothership Lurking in Our Solar System Could Be Watching Us with Tiny Probes Pentagon Official Suggests, and this paper was a draft written by a Harvard scientist and the head of Pentagon's UFO office. And guess who this doctor and Harvard scientist and Pentagon UFO officer was? Yes, you guessed it. It was Loeb or Lee, same gentleman. It was lobe, lobe or leah same gentleman. Avi is his first name. His last name l-o-e-b. Astronomer at harvard university and, along with a couple other gentlemen, come up with this draft paper about this whole scenario that they have released on the public now, in 2025. Tell me that wasn't prepared, put in the minds of everybody and then let go this year so they could scare the tar out of everybody and make them think that the aliens are coming. If anybody shows up, it won't be aliens. I'm telling you guys, you better get on your knees and pray, pray, pray oh boy, what are you saying there, bruce?

Sonny: 17:27

are you saying we're gonna get visited, but it's gonna be something else?

Bruce: 17:32

yeah, if we do, that's what it's going to be. I think it's kind of funny how, all of a sudden, they put this out in the public limelight and it's like all hands on deck. Let's get all the social media people and all the news media to talk about it so we can get everybody thrown off the scent of something else. Don't know what that is, but where you're looking over here, you should be looking over there, and that's all I got to say about that that's all you got to say about that.

Sonny: 18:08

Yay, I'm sorry I brought it up.

Bruce: 18:11

Well, I'm glad you are. Well, if you guys are waiting on the earthquake report, I probably won't cover it this week on the episode, but it will be on my website, theuglyquackingduckcom. It'll be listed on one of the posts so if you are a subscriber, you'll see the date and everything. When it lists it'll go directly to your email. All you have to do is, uh, pull up your email and it'll say read more or read further or something like that, and just click on it and it'll take you to the whole page. But I'm not going to take the time today to do it, I just want to. That took too long to explain that and I'm keeping it short today so I can get some other stuff done. It's Friday 8-15-2025, and this is episode 119.

Bruce: 19:13

We're glad to have you guys all come aboard. We had quite a bit of news there to cover, so we'll just leave it at that. We believe in value for value. So if you're new to the podcast, let us know, email us, send us a note, whatever you want to do, email us, um, send us a note. Whatever you want to do, um, if you believe in helping us, we can use your help. Uh, by spreading the word, by helping us artistically with ideas, or you can financially help us, because we really could use that anyway would be very helpful. But, above all, come back okay. So we're going to say goodbye to you today. Thanks for tuning in sunny. Let's say bye all right, let's say bye one, two, three, bye, all right, thank you.

Bruce: 20:07

Bye, everybody. 73. May the father's love be with you.