CurtAdams@AOL.COM writes:
> As far as I can tell, the cited link discusses neither a mystery object
> nor the quasar discovery. It proposes that a particular 3-second radio
> echo resulted from an alien probe near the moon.
Apologies, the bootes people sometimes are into heavy kookery, and the url in question should probably have been
http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_archive&list_id=bootes
I believe this is referring to
http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_message&list_id=bootes&msg_num=147&start_num=
which is indeed the message about the object with the unusual spectrum.