[checkyoursudo]

If aliens could do this to make the object look inconspicuous, then why not make it look not suspicious as well?

Someone just f'ed up the config files?

[rdtsc]

They deployed on a Friday. They should have known better :-)

Sorry couldn't resist and hey, it's also Friday today.

I wonder if it was aliens and they made it just slightly interesting without making it look completely obvious. Then they'd monitor and see how we would react. Would we be able to detect. Would we go chase it? Beam microwaves at it. Do we have the capability to fire projectiles at it.

[checkyoursudo]

So you're saying it's possibly an interstellar alien cat toy to test our curiosity and willpower? Plausible.

[tazjin]

Who knows what kinds of things are flying through "their" systems? Maybe this thing is the most not suspicious object they could imagine ;-)