You don’t know the half of it about Oumuamua. Why were SDO, SOHO and Solar Probe B all “down for maintenance” at the time, although amateur radio astronomers clearly detected transmissions continuing from them?
“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.” -supposedly Ronald Reagan
Quoted in the song “Stratosphere” by Starset.
https://youtu.be/-vH1S16mLrA?t=138
That sounds like a good plot thickener. Would you mind elaborating a bit? Thanks.