Superstructure?
 

hmmmm

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-now-even-more-confused-160810001.html

I recall reading an early interview on this one, from several months ago. The interviewer was breathlessly asking, "Is it aliens?" And the scientist was saying, "Well, we technically can't rule it out, because that would be unscientific, but it's so ridiculously unlikely as to be not worth investigating." They repeated that interaction a few times, and the "journalist" put a headline like "Alien life cannot be ruled out!!!"

It'd be awesome if this did turn out to be a Dyson sphere (or similar), but I'm holding out for someone in the actual science community (not some wild-eyed "journalist") to say there's a real possibility that the only explanation is aliens.

Color me skeptic.

Yea, there are many possibilities as to what precisely is the source of the flicker. Aliens is right down at the bottom of the list near "a swarm of Unicorns flying around the star".

Some folks really need to believe.

Yea, from the renowned site Yahoo finance. :rolleyes:

The star is so far away that anything we see happening, has already happened.

The leading hypothesis, based on a lack of observed infrared light, is that of a swarm of cold, dusty comet fragments in a highly eccentric orbit. A second hypothesis, quickly gaining traction since first postulated on 15 August 2016, is that there is a swarm of Unicorns flying around the star.
- Wikipedia

From New Scientist magazine
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100319-triple-signal-of-alien-megastructure-star-baffles-astronomers/

From SETI
The Mysterious Star KIC 8462852 | SETI Institute

From Cornell University
[1608.01316] KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission