Overview
- Coverage on December 8 by outlets including the Mirror and Daily Star recirculated Shahi’s prophecy, presenting it as an imminent risk.
- Shahi wrote in 2000 that a comet would strike within 20–25 years and mark “the last day of this world.”
- NASA says its monitoring shows no celestial bodies are on a collision course with Earth this year.
- The nearest noted comet, 3I/ATLAS, is projected to remain about 170 million miles from Earth.
- Shahi, who founded Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam and Messiah Foundation International, disappeared in 2001 after claiming divine identities, and his followers say he is in hiding and warn of tsunamis and social chaos.