Jaykadia “YOU HAVE HEARD THIS—WHERE?” Jaykadia’s aunt had initially been annoyed to have been called out of a meeting, but that expression changed the moment Jaykadia had told her of the object she had seen on the screen. Encouraged by her aunt’s interest, she continued, “I thought it was part of the exercise, but I went to dig around a bit, and there has been talk of this object amongst amateur astronomers for a while, with a lot of speculation about what it could be.” “So it’s real.” “It would appear so. I read one discussion where they spoke extensively about the possibilities. It’s a point of light. It’s coming in our direction. It’s in interstellar space and currently just outside the solar system. It’s moving very fast but has slowed down considerably, from a considerable fracti

