Alien probe has visited our solar system
Oumuamua, a strange object that passed through the solar
system in 2017, could be considered a plausible candidate
for artificial origin, experts said. A sensational statement
was made by Amir Siraj, who, along with another professor
of physics from Harvard, Avi Loeb, wrote an article
(
https://bit.ly/3qLV8Td), a text that has just been accepted
for publication in the journal New Astronomy.
Oumuamua was spotted by Robert Verick on October 19, 2017
through a telescope at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii.
Since then, the scientific community has not abated controversy
about what Oumuamua is. Researchers pay special attention
to its specific flattened shape, reminiscent of a pancake.
Professor Loeb has sparked fierce controversy over his
speculation that it is an alien probe powered by solar sail
technology. Many of his colleagues are extremely skeptical,
and two studies published in March showed that it could have
been a large chunk of nitrogen ice from an exoplanet like
Pluto that broke away millions of years ago.
But Amir Siraj, director of interstellar research at the Harvard
Galileo Project, is systematically researching evidence for
extraterrestrial technological artifacts and believes the latest
study he co-authored with Professor Loeb refutes that fact.
Loeb said that they do not make unambiguous conclusions:
"We do not know what Oumuamua is. We just know that it
is not nitrogen, because the amount of resources required
for its formation is unrealistic," the researcher concluded.
