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Re:A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua by dwaltrip on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:37PM (#18924897)
The density of interstellar alien space junk is almost certainly much, much lower than that of natural interstellar objects. So there is a very strong prior that this is likely a natural object.

I highly recommend the PBS Space Time video on this topic linked in another comment.

Re:A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua by prestonh on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:23PM (#18926606)
Depends on your priors for the parameters in the Drake equation.