I like this piece by a planetary scientist and an astrobiologist that argues it's time to end the taboo of looking for alien technosignatures inside our solar system.
And to my mind, 'Oumuamua remains unexplained. Or at least I'm not convinced by any of the hypothese put forward.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-were-searching-for-alien-tech-in-the-solar-system
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