E32 7-15-19 The Pitfalls of Searching for Alien Life

In October 2017, a telescope at the University of Hawaii picked up a cigar-shaped object which had sling-shotted past the sun at 196,000 miles per hour. Scientists at the university dubbed it ‘Oumuamua’, Hawaiian for scout. At first it was labeled an asteroid, and then a comet, but it certainly came from another solar system.