This animation seems to imply it is traveling orthogonal to the ecliptic. Is that normal (maybe expected is a better word) for this kind of thing?
The orbital plane of the solar system is not aligned in any special orientation relative to nearby stars or the Milky Way, so we would expect interstellar objects to arrive from all directions with equal probability.
[1]: https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171845027099795456
But also thinking that the larger the angle to the ecliptic, the less likely it was something that just happened to be in a very large orbit around our solar system.
From the discussion above though it sounds like the eccentricity tells us that anyway.