Cigar UFO an alien starship or a rock?

A huge cigar-shaped object assumed to be an interstellar asteroid could be an alien starship, scientists have claimed.

The bizarre claim was made as researchers prepared to turn a powerful dish telescope towards the mysterious celestial body dubbed “Oumuamua”.

Astronomers spotted Oumuamua passing the Earth about 85 times the distance to the moon away. It is the first object discovered in the solar system that appears to have come from another part of the galaxy.