Jees wrote:dragonrider wrote:.....they just didn't think we where interesting enough to pay a visit to.
They probably took a closer look at our world leaders in power
If it was a craft of some sort, there's a possibility it was already on a pre-planned slingshot orbit to somewhere else entirely. Although there would have been a reasonable opportunity for analysing any radio signals beamed out from that little blue planet while on the approach, giving plenty of time to abort the planned launch of any probes.
Of course those hypothetical probes would of necessity be smaller than 'Oumuamua itself. That would make them even harder to spot, were they deployed.
Even if, as is most likely the case, this object is of natural cosmological origin it's still fascinating to consider just how it might have been formed.
“There is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
― Jacques Bergier, quoting Fulcanelli