>Well, the paper[0] spends ~98% of the time not claiming that. Still it does say that, and the actual 2% remaining and actually stating the possibilty of it be

>Well, the paper[0] spends ~98% of the time not claiming that. Still it does say that, and the actual 2% remaining and actually stating the possibilty of it being an alien ship of some kind is essentially coming from the "set of educated and random guesses" (it is difficult to call them anything else, though officially it is called "Observations") published on Scientific American blogs (and cited as if they were a scientific paper): https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-search-for-dead-cosmic-civilizations/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-sea... by Abraham Loeb (chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University) Probably they should add a "Giorgio's Edition" to the department name ....