https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alien-extraterrestrial-oumuamua-space-object-whizzed-by-earth-harvard-professor/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=108705934
Object that whizzed by Earth probably came from alien world, Harvard professor asserts
Astronomer Avi Loeb's new book "Extraterrestrial" examines the 2017 flyby of a space object that he believes was truly out of this world.
"At first people thought, 'Well it must be a rock, just like the asteroids or comets that we have seen before within the solar system,'" Loeb told CBSN Boston's Paula Ebben. "But as they got more data on it, it looks very weird.
The cigar-shaped object seen by telescopes was dubbed "Oumuamua" – meaning "a messenger that reaches out from the distant past" in Hawaiian.