To say that my raising the possibility that ‘Oumuamua was artificial technology met with disapproval is putting the matter mildly. To be sure, the popular media was delighted, and the broader public was fascinated. But my fellow scientists were, shall we say, more circumspect. In July 2019 the ‘Oumuamua Team of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) published their unambiguous conclusion in Nature Astronomy: “we find no compelling evidence to favor an alien explanation for ‘Oumuamua.” The immediately preceding paragraphs declared that the extraterrestrial-technology theory that Bialy
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