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The data we confront tells us that ‘Oumuamua was a luminous, thin disk at the LSR, and when it encountered the gravitational pull of the Sun, it deviated from a trajectory explicable by gravity alone, and it did so without visible outgassing or disintegration. These data points can be summed up as follows: ‘Oumuamua was statistically a wild outlier.
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Avi Loeb (Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth – A New York Times Bestselling Science Book on the Oumuamua Mystery and Alien Technology from Harvard's Top Astronomer)