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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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Bruce (00:08):
well, well, well, welcome to the ugly quacking duck
podcast, the worst podcast inthe known universe and we're
proving it every episode, it'severy episode.
That's right.
We are proving how bad we are.

(00:29):
Welcome everybody.
We're glad to have you aboardagain and, like I said, this is
the Ugly Quackin' Duck podcast.
This is episode 119.
And we are coming to you andrecording out of where Sonny Our

(00:50):
Midwest hideout.
That's right, our Midwesthideout in Southern Illinois.
We are in our studio, which isnot really a hideout, but it's
like the place we go to hidefrom the rest of the world and
take naps.

Sonny (01:12):
Oh, you take naps.
I just hide out here with you.

Bruce (01:17):
Yep Boy, your mic sounds different.
It's got a little bit deepersound to it.

Sonny (01:22):
Oh, you noticed, did you?
It may have been because youswitched my mic again.

Bruce (01:30):
Well, I like the way that one sounds.

Sonny (01:33):
I kind of do too, it gives me a raspy sound.

Bruce (01:40):
Oh, a raspy sound.
Well, Sonny, introduce yourself.

Sonny (01:45):
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 fromthe Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.

Bruce (02:04):
There we go, we introduced ourselves.
Man, you're liking that gruffysound?
I am too.
I think that sounds good.
Well, we have another hot dayin southern illinois.
Um, it's very, very hot is itvery, very hot it's very, very
hot.
Yep, it's 94 degrees right nowin southern illinois and they

(02:28):
say it feels like 106.
Get that feels like it.

Sonny (02:34):
That's probably because they're standing in the sunlight
yeah, that's a bad thing to dowhen it's hot.
You need to be out in the shade.

Bruce (02:44):
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 toPhoenix Arizona, which we like
to compare, it is 88 degrees outthere.

(03:06):
Really, that's what they say.
Since I'm not there, I can'tyou know, you can't hold me to
that, I'm just looking it up onthe internet.
But they say it's 88 degreesand it's 44 percent humidity,
which is 10% less than us.
35 air quality.

(03:26):
I don't know if that's apercent, 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 hourwinds.
Pretty well across the wholeUnited States probably.
Yep, that's what it is.

Sonny (03:51):
Hey, bruce.
Yes, you have your ticket readymy ticket ready yeah, your
ticket for your ride uh ticketfor my ride.

Bruce (04:04):
I'm not sure where you're going with this, Sonny.

Sonny (04:08):
Oh, haven't you heard.
There's a mothership on the wayand, knowing how you're always
talking about aliens, I figuredyou'd have a ticket on that ship
ready to go.

Bruce (04:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard about that.
No, I don't have a ticket.

Sonny (04:28):
Oh, come on, let's talk about that.

Bruce (04:32):
Well, I had some other news articles set up to talk
about, but I guess we can talkabout your news.

Sonny (04:44):
Yay.

Bruce (04:52):
A little bit of sci-fi.
How about a lot of sci-fi?
Well, I've only got about 21minutes of record time left for
this day or this month.
No, for this time period, whichends quickly, soon.
But we'll talk about a littlebit.
Um, it's called an alien probe.
Yes, indeed, they call it 3iatlantis or atlantis, and uh, it

(05:18):
started in the news about aboutJuly 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 ofa chat with the scientists

(05:39):
involved back maybe in thismonth.
I'm not sure I'd have to goback and look this month.
I'm not sure I'd have to goback and look it up, but there's
a bunch of people on socialmedia that got involved and
started stirring the pot.

Sonny (05:58):
Oh yeah, stir the pot, make it cook, turn it over.

Bruce (06:04):
I'm not sure that's exactly what that means, but
okay, we'll go that way.
But a lot of the social mediaaccount people were stirring it
up.
There's a bunch of youtubevideos that come out declaring a
scientist had spoken, a harvardscientist had spoken, a Harvard
scientist had spoken and saidor actually I think they said

(06:30):
scientist they made it pluralbecause there was a kind of a
group effort but they had saidthat the scientists declared
this was an alien probe thatthey had spotted coming through
the universe and through oursolar system.

(06:50):
And, uh, it got all riled upand I mean people were starting
to buy into it.
They even had a person of ourcongress contact the scientists
and they asked about gettingnasa.
You know we had a probe outthere, um, in venus, I think.

(07:12):
They were going to crash intothat planet and they were asking
if they could deter that andship it out into the line of
fire, basically where this alienprobe or mothership was going
to fly.
And maybe they get heads upwhat's going on.

(07:33):
And you may think this is allscience fiction, but this was
actually being talked about andI do believe none of it.

Sonny (07:46):
Oh, come on, you don't believe any of it.
Nope, um.

Bruce (07:52):
But you like sci-fi, you like talking about aliens I love
sci-fi, I love talking aboutaliens, but that doesn't mean I
believe in them.
But anyhow, you know, uh, whatis that saying?
Most of the world has boughtinto it, but me not so much.

(08:15):
But that's for another story,another podcast.
But basically what this storyboils down to is a lot of the
news media, a lot of the socialmedia people including YouTube,
tiktokok and there's reddit anda bunch of them started talking

(08:38):
about this scientist who comeout and said that this comet
that's what it was designated asat first uh was not truly a
natural phenomenon, but it wasacting like it was controlled,

(09:00):
that it was an alien.
Maybe it was a mothership thatwas coming into this solar
system to spy on us or to launchprobes or some other phenomenon

(09:20):
that they elected to tell us.

Sonny (09:26):
Oh, so you're saying they just made it up?

Bruce (09:30):
Oh, I wouldn't say that.

Sonny (09:32):
But you just did.
No, you said that, oh okay theyjust made it up.

Bruce (09:41):
Yeah, they uh.
Let me tell you all about it.
This thing was um discovered onjuly 1st 2025, 2025, supposedly
.
And since that time there'sbeen, like I said, news articles
, stories.
Go online and look them up, andit's just been.
You know one thing it's justbeen a snowball effect trying to

(10:05):
get everybody all riled up.
Supposedly it is going to passby Venus, mars and Jupiter.
It is going to pass by Venus,mars and Jupiter, which are
saying the percentage of thathappening is so high that it
can't be counted, or somethinglike that.
But I guess, just because it'sgoing to pick those three

(10:27):
planets, who knows?
But during that course, it'sgoing to duck behind the sun.
Their words, going to hidebehind the sun, which we will
not be able to see it, andthey're saying, at that time

(10:48):
would be a perfect time tolaunch probes or to attack Earth
.
Their words uh, but that'sprobably going to happen.
But if it comes to earth, if it, I guess, detours and comes
toward earth, it could reachearth around november, the 21st,
through december 5th, sometimeor another.

(11:10):
That's what they're saying.
Okay, you get that and rememberthat they were saying.
Who are they?
Again, the news media and thesocial media group.
They're all getting thesestories somewhere and they're
propagating that into thecitizens of the world so that

(11:36):
you guys can all be afraid, beafraid, 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 andsince Sonny brought it up,
we'll talk a little bit moreabout it.
But anyway, they supposedlydiscovered this thing coming
through the solar system andit's moving faster than anything

(12:26):
that could come through theirwords, and I never did get
pinpointed how fast it was.
They was talking aboutkilometers an hour or something
like that, but I don't knowexactly 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 someof it.
All right, here we goIntelligently directed, and if

(13:05):
it is alien, the world shouldprepare.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
I think that when we have a blind date from a visitor
from another star, all bets areoff.
We shouldn't assume anythingand we should assess the risk,
given the data that we have.
It's just like the Richterscale 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 adr.
Low, low boy, low l-o-e-b, andhe's talking about the three eye
atlas alien craft.

(13:49):
Now they're not calling it you,you know an object any longer,
they're calling it an aliencraft.
Wow, and here's another newsmedia outlet, fox 10, out of

(14:10):
let's see Phoenix, and let'shear 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 coulddirect 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 CongresswomanAnna Paulina Luna and she wanted
an update about the 3i Atlas,because it's not clear what the
nature of this object is, andshe was curious and we talked
about it and I mentioned thatjust the day before, I wrote a

(14:51):
scientific paper suggesting touse the Juno spacecraft, which
is in orbit around Jupiter, andthey were planning NASA was
planning to crash it intoJupiter and end its mission
because the mission started in2011.
It's now very long and I wrotein my paper that instead of
pushing it into Jupiter, let'spush it away from Jupiter

(15:14):
towards the path of this newinterstellar object.

Bruce (15:19):
All right, there you go.
That's another news mediaoutlet talking about it, and
they got NASA talking about itand there's more and more online
.
But anyhow, the whole truth ofthe matter is are you ready for
this?
Here we go.
Hannah osborne published march22nd, 2023.

(15:40):
Did you hear that two years ago,in a few months, in life
science magazine or on theirwebsite, they they published an
article.
It is entitled Alien MothershipLurking in Our Solar System
Could Be Watching Us with TinyProbes Pentagon Official

(16:05):
Suggests, and this paper was adraft written by a Harvard
scientist and the head ofPentagon's UFO office.
And guess who this doctor andHarvard scientist and Pentagon
UFO officer was?

(16:26):
Yes, you guessed it.
It was Loeb or Lee, samegentleman.
It was lobe, lobe or leah samegentleman.
Avi is his first name.
His last name l-o-e-b.
Astronomer at harvarduniversity and, along with a
couple other gentlemen, come upwith this draft paper about this

(16:50):
whole scenario that they havereleased on the public now, in
2025.
Tell me that wasn't prepared,put in the minds of everybody
and then let go this year sothey could scare the tar out of
everybody and make them thinkthat the aliens are coming.

(17:12):
If anybody shows up, it won'tbe aliens.
I'm telling you guys, youbetter get on your knees and
pray, pray, pray oh boy, whatare 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 andit's like all hands on deck.
Let's get all the social mediapeople and all the news media to
talk about it so we can geteverybody thrown off the scent

(17:53):
of something else.
Don't know what that is, butwhere 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 tosay 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 waitingon the earthquake report, I
probably won't cover it thisweek on the episode, but it will

(18:33):
be on my website,theuglyquackingduckcom.
It'll be listed on one of theposts so if you are a subscriber
, you'll see the date andeverything.
When it lists it'll go directlyto your email.
All you have to do is, uh, pullup your email and it'll say
read more or read further orsomething like that, and just
click on it and it'll take youto the whole page.
But I'm not going to take thetime today to do it, I just want

(18:56):
to.
That took too long to explainthat and I'm keeping it short
today so I can get some otherstuff done.
It's Friday 8-15-2025, and thisis episode 119.
We're glad to have you guys allcome aboard.
We had quite a bit of newsthere to cover, so we'll just

(19:21):
leave it at that.
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(19:44):
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But, above all, come back okay.
So we're going to say goodbyeto you today.
Thanks for tuning in sunny.
Let's say bye all right, let'ssay bye one, two, three, bye,

(20:06):
all right, thank you.
Bye, everybody.
73.
May the father's love be withyou.
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