This …interesting… bit has been making the news of late.
You remember ‘Oumuamua, no? It’s that strangely shaped object that flew by the solar system and exhibited some strange motions and may have looked like this:
The object bewildered scientists, as I mentioned above, not only because of its odd shape but also because its motion seemed odd as well.
Now, we have this:
‘Oumuamua: Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper claims
The money lines from the article, complete with links:
So the object’s acceleration as it left the solar system was… odd… and this (among other things) was the reason why these Harvard researchers felt it was possible the object was an artificial creation, one which used “solar sails” to move.
I wonder.
Frankly, it would be beyond exciting to think that there may be probes out there looking in on us. Exciting… and terrifying.
I suspect that there may eventually be a more “down to earth” (so to speak) explanation for this object’s strange acceleration, but we’ll see.
We’ll see.