Here is a brief background on the original find and what they briefly thought it was:

Back in October, astronomers discovered a strange pattern of light near a distant star called KIC 8462852 that no one could explain. When a planet orbits a star, the star’s brightness will usually dip by just 1 percent, but KIC 8462852 has been experiencing dips of up to 22 percent, which suggests that something very, very big is zooming past.

The best explanation we had was that a huge mass of comets has been erratically orbiting KIC 8462852, kicking up enough dust to dim its light to such a degree. But a new analysis of the last 100 years of the star’s history has rendered this hypothesis just as implausible as any other. So… aliens then?

This is why the comets theory seems so absurd now:

Schaefer concluded that for the star to dim by about 20 percent over the course of an entire century, it would require some 648,000 comets – each about 200 kilometres wide – to have transited KIC 8462852, and that’s completely implausible, he said. “The comet-family idea was reasonably put forth as the best of the proposals, even while acknowledging that they all were a poor lot. But now we have a refutation of the idea, and indeed, of all published ideas.”

So we’re back to the drawing board, and this time we don’t even have any remotely plausible explanations for wtf is going on with KIC 8462852.

So what do you think?  Is it aliens, some type of new matter or something else?  Feel free to comment with your thoughts.

thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info