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Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Avi Loeb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Nov. 12, 2018, Avi Loeb, then the chairman of the astronomy department at Harvard, and a young research associate, Shmuel Bialy, published a paper in the highly prestigious Astrophysical Journal Letters arguing that humans may have discovered the first evidence of alien technology in the form of a mysterious object called Oumuamua that had streaked through the solar system the previous fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporters flocked to his door. I was not one of them, because I thought the claim was clever and bold, but far-fetched, and I still do, much as I wish it were true. Few of his scientific colleagues agree with him, as Loeb will be the first to tell you in his new book, \u201cExtraterrestrial,\u201d which is part graceful memoir and part plea for keeping an open mind about the possibilities of what is out there in the universe \u2014 in particular, life. Otherwise, he says, we might miss something amazing, like the church officials in the 17th century who refused to look through Galileo\u2019s telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre we, both scientists and lay people, ready?\u201d he asks in his introduction. \u201cIs human civilization ready to confront what follows our accepting the plausible conclusion, arrived at through evidence-backed hypotheses, that terrestrial life isn\u2019t unique and perhaps not even particularly impressive? I fear the answer is no, and that prevailing prejudice is a cause for concern.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oumuamua \u2014 Hawaiian for \u201cscout\u201d \u2014 was first noticed by a telescope on the island of Maui on Oct. 19, 2017, when it was already on its way out of the solar system, having passed closest to the sun a month before. It had come from outside the solar system, from the direction of the star Vega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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