Cigar-Shaped Object in Space: Cosmic Mystery?
A mysterious cigar-shaped object discovered in space may have been an alien spacecraft, according to astronomers. Scientists from Harvard University have been working relentlessly to identify the bizarre object, ever since it was spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in October 2017. The 400-meter object, which traveled at 196,000 miles per hour and was 10 times longer than its width, has been nicknamed ‘Oumuamua. This Hawaiian word means “a messenger that reaches out from the distant past”. It was originally believed to be a comet before further research suggested it was an asteroid. Now, a new paper has raised suggestions that the elongated red mystery could have been a new class of “interstellar object” that has never been discovered before. It is also believed to be the first object seen in our solar system to have originated elsewhere.