  Koptelova et al. 2022 (K22) recently claimed a new quasar discovery at
$z=7.46$. After careful consideration of the publicly-available data underlying
K22's claim, we find that the observations were contaminated by a moving Solar
System object, likely a main-belt asteroid. In the absence of the contaminated
photometry, there is no evidence for the nearby, persistent WISE source being a
high-redshift object; in fact, a detection of the source in DELS $z$-band rules
out a redshift $z>7.3$. We present our findings as a cautionary tale of the
dangers of passing asteroids for photometric selections.
