Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

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Oumuamua's Discoverer Disputes Alien Origin Theory

The astronomer credited with discovering the mysterious interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua' has called into question the theory that it has an alien origin.  The tantalizing hypothesis was put forward by a pair of Harvard  scientists in a recently-published paper which argued that the enigmatic  oddity from outside our solar system may be an ET light sail or some  kind of probe. Unsurprisingly, this fantastic scenario spawned headlines  around the world and captured the imagination of UFO enthusiasts.

However, the scientist who first spotted Oumuamua expressed considerable  skepticism over the claim and, in an interview with the CBC,  described it as "wild speculation." Robert Weryk, an astronomer at the  University of Hawaii, explained that although the object is unique in  that it's the first interstellar interloper ever found in our solar  system, the existence of such 'visitors' had been "theoretically  predicted for decades." To that end, he described the discovery as  something of a lucky break in that "it's just something that happened to  run into us" as they were looking for potentially hazardous asteroids  out in space.

Regarding the solar sail theory outlined in the paper, Weryk opined that  "we actually believe that's not true based on the data we obtained." Find out what the scientists who wrote the paper had to say about the astronomer's seemingly out-of-hand dismissal of their work at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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