{"id":84531,"date":"2018-11-06T00:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/cigar-shaped-interstellar-object-may-have-been-an-alien-probe-harvard-paper-claims"},"modified":"2018-11-06T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:42:30","slug":"cigar-shaped-interstellar-object-may-have-been-an-alien-probe-harvard-paper-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/cigar-shaped-interstellar-object-may-have-been-an-alien-probe-harvard-paper-claims","title":{"rendered":"Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cigar-shaped-interstellar-object-may-have-been-an-alien-probe-harvard-paper-claims.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The object, nicknamed \u2018Oumuamua, meaning \u201ca messenger that reaches out from the distant past\u201d in Hawaiian, was first discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Since its discovery, scientists have been at odds to explain its unusual features and precise origins, with researchers first calling it a comet and then an asteroid, before finally deeming it the first of its kind: a new class of \u201cinterstellar objects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/06\/health\/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/06\/health\/oumuamua-alien-probe-h...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested. The object, nicknamed \u2018Oumuamua, meaning \u201ca messenger that reaches out from the distant past\u201d in Hawaiian, was first discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}