When 3I/ATLAS was first spotted on July 1st, it looked like any other interstellar interloper. A fast-moving blur with a glowing coma, traveling at speeds never before recorded for an inbound object—nearly 87 kilometers per second relative to the Sun. At that speed, it crosses the Earth-Moon distance in under 80 minutes. But what stunned scientists wasn’t its velocity… it was its behavior. Comets typically slow, fragment, or stabilize as they approach the inner system. But 3I/ATLAS began accelerating—subtly, but consistently. And even more disturbing: its trajectory began tightening. Slight course corrections became evident, and the object’s coma—its surrounding halo of gas and dust—doubled in brightness within weeks. Spectral analysis revealed intense spikes in ultraviolet energy, and CO₂ outgassing at rates never seen before in any comet. It was acting less like a drifting chunk of frozen rock… and more like a guided missile. And that’s when Webb’s deep-field sensors caught something that changed everything—rhythmic pulses coming from the tail. Not chaotic jets from sunlight melting ice. But deliberate thrusts, in perfect 17-minute intervals. A pattern. A signal. A maneuver.