The modern Physical Science records the unnatural brightness changes in the stars:
T. S. Boyajian, et al., "Planet Hunters IX. KIC 8462852: Where's the flux?" Mon.Not.R.Astron.Soc. {457}(4), 3988-4004 (2016), S. Scaringi, et al., "The peculiar dipping events in the disk-bearing young-stellar...
I figured these might make for some pretty interesting stories - whatever anyone's ideas of the whys and wherefores behind the incidents.
My personal experience hails back to my college days. There was a class I took on programming theory and throughout the course of the semester we'd one day...