In a development that sounds like it was rejected from a Twilight Zone reboot for being “too on the nose,” Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has doubled down on his theory that the mysterious interstellar object known as ‘Oumuamua might not be a space rock at all, but rather a nuclear-powered alien spacecraft.
Critics in the scientific community insist it’s just an oddly shaped hunk of space debris, but Loeb is unshaken. “If it’s a spaceship, that means someone finally RSVP’d to Earth’s cosmic house party,” he said, while presumably buying bulk tinfoil.
The Pentagon has declined to comment, though one anonymous official admitted, “If it is aliens, they’re either really advanced, or really lost.”
Meanwhile, humanity is left with two options: either we’ve just spotted our first interstellar neighbors… or the universe’s weirdest rock. Either way, it probably has better funding than NASA.
