  We have utilized the NASA IRTF 3m SpeX instrument's high resolution spectral
mode (Rayner et al. 2003) to observe and characterize the near-infrared flux
emanating from the unusual Kepler lightcurve system KIC8462852. By comparing
the resulting 0.8 to 4.2 um spectrum to a mesh of model photospheric spectra,
the 6 emission line analysis of the Rayner et al. 2009 catalogue, and the 25
system collection of debris disks we have observed to date using SpeX under the
Near InfraRed Debris disk Survey (NIRDS; Lisse et al. 2016), we have been able
to additionally characterize the system. Within the errors of our measurements,
this star looks like a normal solar abundance main sequence F1V to F3V dwarf
star without any obvious traces of significant circumstellar dust or gas. Using
Connelley & Greene's (2014) emission measures, we also see no evidence of
significant ongoing accretion onto the star nor any stellar outflow away from
it. Our results are inconsistent with large amounts of static close-in
obscuring material or the unusual behavior of a YSO system, but are consistent
with the favored episodic models of a Gyr old stellar system favored by
Boyajian et al. (2015). We speculate that KIC8462852, like the approximately
1.4 Gyr old F2V system {\eta} Corvi (Wyatt et al. 2005, Chen et al. 2006, Lisse
et al. 2012), is undergoing a Late Heavy Bombardment, but is only in its very
early stages.
