[Oatka]

If none of the ordinary reasons for the star’s flux quite seemed to fit, perhaps an extraordinary one was in order.
Aliens.

When humans run across something they can't explain, they attribute it to ghosts, gods - or aliens.

On a much lesser scale, when archaeologists run across an oopart, they peg it as "religious" and bury it in a museum basement.

[kitchen]

When humans run across something they can't explain, they attribute it to ghosts, gods - or aliens.

Looks like a rather stringent process in support of their conclusion.