Extraterrestrial intelligence?

[Jehanne]

No one is asking for any of your money here!  I think some individuals have raised a 100K to buy telescope time to monitor the star, which seems to be a perfectly stable F-type star.  Question is, what would cause a 22% dip in its brightness?  Perhaps Alex, a physicist, could chime-in here?

Impressing the foolish does not necessarily involve asking for money up front.  Some people do it just to feel wise and important

If life evolved on this World, it is reasonable to suppose that it evolved elsewhere in the Cosmos, as there are at least a trillion planets in our Galaxy alone.  But, even if things turn out to be explained by non-intelligent naturalistic processes, then the KIC 8462852 is still a unique star, would you agree?  After all, how many other of the 150K stars in the Kepler dataset have had their luminosity decrease by 22%?  For a star, that's a LOT! Either way, money well spent in my opinion.