KEY FINDINGS This early image contains features we now recognize as impossible to dismiss. The data aligns disturbingly well with what later telescopes confirmed. What we once wrote off as noise now looks like the first clear fingerprint of an engineered object. A forgotten October frame may have shown us the real 3I/ATLAS months before Forensic reanalysis of an October 21, 2025 image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reveals symmetric structure, nickel vapor signatures, and early evidence of engineered morphology.