Interstellar object 'Oumuamua' could be an alien probe, claims Harvard study

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Oumuamua was first spotted in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii

The mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua' that was found lurking in our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft. That's the claim from a new study carried out by two astronomer...

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