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Harvard researchers have suggested a mysterious interstellar object that was spotted floating in space in 2017 could be an “alien” spacecraft sent on a reconnaissance mission to probe the Earth.
The cigar-shaped asteroid or comet – dubbed Oumuamua – was discovered in October last year by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
Given its high speed and unusual trajectory, the dark-red object was believed to have come from outside our solar system but its flattened and elongated shape as well as the way it accelerated on its way utterly distinguished it from other conventional asteroids.