In article ,
Gary Harnagel writes:
As an aside, might not the dimming of KIC8462852 be caused by an Oort
cloud object wandering into the path of Kepler? There are

According to the paper Abstract at
http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/457/4/3988
the dimming lasted "between 5 and 80 d." An occultation by an Oort
Cloud or Kuiper Belt object would last a fraction of a second. There
is a published claim of two such detections
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/150
Figure 5 in the paper shows the light curve of the second (then new)
one, which is dominated by diffraction.

Further searches are in progress but very difficult from the ground.
A proposed space mission to look for OCO/KBO occultations was not
selected but presumably could be proposed again.

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