...a desparate, cheap placeholder to send Players off into maximum-length/effort Ghost Chases... to gain time until Frontier has the resources to start implementing Alien assets for a new major Version in the future

Given that their Nano-Teaser produced quite a stir, leading to a Thread exceeding 10000 Posts, causing Players to repeatedly risk & loose everything and invest insane amounts of time... Frontier learned that they can easily get away with that method. Thus I can't blame them for continuing it (see SAP8 and ELITE-Rank Bulletin Missions - all leading to precisely... nothing)
At the very best... I'm sure there IS some non-celestial object to be found somewhere. But it'll be just that. Some oddball object somewhere in one of 400 Billion Systems and we won't be able to do anything but look at it and go all crazy about it.