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Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested. The object, nicknamed 'Oumuamua, meaning "a messenger that reaches out from the distant past" in Hawaiian, was first discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
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I like the shape. Aliens know what's up.
Not sure that I believe everything that those Harvard researchers say. There are multiple ways to interpret the facts, and that is just one of them. Not the most likely one, either, IMHO. The tumbling motion of the object argues against it being an alien probe, since its journey would then be harder to control or predict.
It is indeed the stuff of science fiction, always fertile ground of imagination, the creche for science.
True that...We will never know though.
Ah, so many unknown things have been born in the imagination!
I'd love to see this idea made into a fiction book, agreed! Very Arthur C. Clark-ish. I just don't think it needs to be in a scientific paper.