LANSING – Online rumors are swirling that a comet from another solar system might be a UFO — but Michigan State University researchers say that’s pure speculation. It’s definitely a comet, they insist, with no credible reason to believe otherwise.
“Almost everybody in the field is in agreement that this object is a natural comet because it’s displaying classical evidence of cometary activity,” said Professor Darryl Seligman, the lead author of the first paper studying the comet.
It’s behaving the way a comet does and has all of the features that define a comet, like a tail, he said…