[djmcmath]

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.