No one knew quite what to make of this.
George Fitzgerald was the first to propose that perhaps objects somehow became shorter in the direction parallel to the motion through the aether. That would explain why light took the same time to travel both paths.
Ref: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ns-13.328.390.a
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