No, in another article they said it could have been an actual ancient Alien Father Ship.
Immanuel Velikovsky springs to mind. In the first half of the last century we had the “settled science” that all geologic change in recorded history of man was gradual and there was little “catastrophic” change.
His popular book series, much maligned, tried to explain much of biblical history in light of catastrophic events he outlined and attempted to show evidence to support.
In the past sixty years we now have impact events being substantiated as happening during and before the age of man in great numbers and these, like the events he postulated were huge planet shaking events.
When we finally got below the clouds of Venus, we found it had retrograde rotation just like he predicted.
I greatly enjoyed a book called Velikovsky Reconsidered published by some 70s era kids. I have little belief in the cosmology he proposed, but he was certainly an independent thinker that helped our age deal with what C. S. Lewis called chronological bigotry — the belief that the people of early ages were stupid and ignorant in all they recorded.