Well, if you thought we were leaving weird news behind in the new year, think again.
Reports this weekend are coming out that a sign of extraterrestrial life could have made its way to our solar system in 2017. And if you think it’s coming from a wackadoo conspiracy theorist, think again…again.
Rather, the information is coming from Harvard University professor of astronomy Avi Loeb’s new book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” which will be released January 26.
In it, the physicist argues that an oblong object that entered our solar system on September 6, 2017, with rapid speeds from roughly 25 light years away was not an asteroid but “advanced alien technology from a distant star,” marketing materials from the book’s publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt show.
According to Publishers Weekly, Loeb goes on to conclude that humankind is not prepared to accept this fact.
Um, you think?!
Publisher’s Weekly is calling the book a “contentious manifesto.” And even Houghton Mifflin Harcourt notes that the book is based on Loeb’s “controversial theory.”
Still, the folks at NASA confirm part of Loeb’s story. They too describe the formation—dubbed Oumuamua—as the “first confirmed object from another star to visit our solar system.”