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Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

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Study Upends Oumuamua Alien Theory

A new study of the mysterious interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua' has seemingly squelched the theory that the interloper is alien in nature. Discovered back in the autumn of 2017, the oddity captured the imagination of scientists and the public as it was the first time that astronomers had spotted an object that had entered our solar system from somewhere else. As one can imagine, the 'visitor' sparked speculation that perhaps the Oumuamua is some kind of evidence for extraterrestrials.

Remarkably, this conjecture was not limited to the world of UFO enthusiasts and alien aficionados. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb sparked headlines last November when he postulated that Oumuamua might have been some kind of ET probe that was powered by a solar light sail. While his theory was dismissed as "wild speculation" by the scientist who discovered it, Loeb doubled down on his hypothesis at the start of this year, declaring that "I don't care what people say."

Be that as it may, a new examination of data from observations of Oumuamua appears to strike a serious blow to the theory that it is an alien craft. In a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers concluded that they had "found no compelling evidence to favor an alien explanation." In fact, they largely lambasted the idea, declaring that "some arguments in favor of this hypothesis are simply wrong."

Find out why they believe this to be the case at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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