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I was one of the Kickstarter backers to investigate this further. I got a nice t-shirt and some stickers, but I was just interested in what we would find out. We certainly managed to fund further observations, and rule out some of the theories.

Hasn't been any updates for quite a while now though.

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According to John Michael Godier there is some new data available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSCN09SSRck

Very interesting, thanks!

The mystery deepens. More candidate stars showing the same dimming, and all clustered in space around Tabby's star, and of the same stellar types.

Doesn't mean aliens, but it's certainly provocative.

I wonder how much of the visible sky it’s affecting from our vantage point. Ie how sure are they that it’s not a near field obstruction?

The video says they would expect other stars to be obscured if the effect wasn't localised to those star systems.

You will the distribution of current candidates in the sky on page 6 of this paper cited in the video comments [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.01208.pdf

Thanks. Says that "While a probability at this level is not generally considered to be highly significant, it does suggest that the clump is real."

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