[PGR88]

[pepsionice]

Normally, I’d agree with scientists....however, there is one odd part to this story...the object left going away, at a higher rate of speed, than when it approached. There hasn’t been a decent explanation laid out on why.

[Mount Athos]

In france they associate ufos with a cigar shape.

I wonder if one of the scientists is french

[ConservativeMind]

I’m sorry, miss, but the solar sail ‘rock’ is “settled science.”

[Telepathic Intruder]

"...accelerated faster away from the Sun than expected"

similar behavior has been seen in comets due to outgassing. The only mystery is that no actual outgassing has been observed.

[V_TWIN]

If Harvard wants to pursue studying aliens they should start with Obama and work their way up from there.

[yesthatjallen]

At least one of the Harvard scientists read ‘Rendezvous with Rama’.

[C210N]

Link to the original paper. In any case, it has interesting tidbits on what's in interstellar space and their effects on objects moving thru it.

[Fido969]

Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe, astronomers suggest

[cuban leaf]

Say that reminds me. Lifeforce is free on Amazon Prime now.

It proved the theory that you CAN get tired of watching a gorgeous broad walk around buck naked.

[golux]

I’m quite sure this will mean almost nothing to my FRiends,
but I work with “scientists” every day.
One thing I have noticed is that they are almost,
to a one, hard leftists
with CORE BASIC BELIEFS, including for instance anthropogenic global warming.
1. And they will never be wrong, no matter the evidence,
2. And they will never even THINK to admit to being wrong,
3. And they will never be EXPECTED to admit being wrong.
They are “scientists,” so THEY ARE RIGHT.
Squirrels are purple and eat filet mignon? Yes.
Yes, yes, yes. Because the “scientists” say so.

[cuban leaf]

And if you know anything about that movie, you know why I brought it up. :)

[M Kehoe]

Didn’t someone already ID the object?

According to sources it’s the Mother wheel.

5.56mm

[blueplum]

in 60 some years of ‘aliens’, not a single one has landed on the WH lawn and asked to see our leader. If I was a friendly alien, I might want somebody to know that I put a lot of effort into getting to Earth to say hello. And if I was an enemy alien, I wouldn’t care who saw me.

[mabarker1]

“Like most scientists, I would love there to be convincing evidence of alien life, but this isn’t it,” said Alan Fitzsimmons, an astrophysicist at Queens University, Belfast.

Send this guy over to Dulce, just for grins...