Our Solar System's Alien Visitor

In October of 2017 our solar system had an alien visitor.  What was first called a comet, and then an asteroid was finally determined to be the first interstellar body of it's kind that human beings have witnessed.  This was an object, floating through space, from another solar system.

The object was named "Oumuamua," a Hawaiian word which means "a messenger from the past."  The object was discovered by the PAN-STARRS1 survey which is the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System.  PAN-STARRS1 is a system for wide-field astronomical imaging which was developed by the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.

Oumuamua is estimated to be 755ft - 3,281ft x 115ft - 548ft x 115ft - 548ft.  It is dark-red in color and is literally alien, having not originated in our solar system.  The oddest thing about the interstellar object is it's unusual acceleration and a Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics research paper has recently suggested that it may not only be alien, but could be an artificially designed, extraterrestrial probe.

The researchers speculate that, due to the unusual acceleration of Oumuamua, it may be a lightsail - a type of spacecraft propulsion system that uses radiation pressure from sunlight on large mirrors to create a "wind sail" type effect.  Although many in the scientific community are skeptical that the object known as the "messenger from the past" could be an alien spacecraft, the open-mindedness and acceptance of the alien intelligence hypothesis of the researchers is refreshing.  As I, myself, am a researcher who always tries to balance my extranormal thinking with logic and reason - and my reason and logic with extranormal thinking - I see this as a great milestone for science and paranormal researchers alike.