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And the signals were detected October 21, just after 3I Atlas disappeared behind the Sun briefly. That perihelion event, that perihelion, that's just when it was closest to the Sun, also resulted in the momentary brightening of the comet along with a color change. And coincidentally, another object, C slash 2025 V1 was discovered, which reached its closest approach to Earth on November 11. And news quickly spread that this new object was a probe released from 3I Atlas. The theory was trashed very, very quickly afterwards after extensive investigation. It was just a regular solar system comet that's happening passing through and from the same time.