“‘The ISS is being monitored by aliens': Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above the space station” … That’s from the Daily Mail.
The baseline story is this: A recorded archive on NASA’s Ustream channel of the Aug. 3 live video feed from the International Space Station shows a pinkish, bright something or other floating above the Earth near the station. The ISS camera captured the image (all visible in the video above and gallery below) as it was panning right.
That’s it. The video was posted to YouTube and certain social media characters bandied it about as evidence that we’re being watched by aliens and NASA is covering it up. A few news orgs also picked up the story. Here’s what the UFO enthusiast said about the video on YouTube.
‘NO COLOURS HAVE BEEN ALTERED IN THIS OR ANY OF MY VIDEOS ! ‘ THE NEWS MEDIA ARE TRASHING THIS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CHECKOUT THIS NASA LINK – AT 7 minutes in – UFO http://ift.tt/1LEq3GZ a period when the camera is moving for a few minutes, Nasa captures a distant pink and gold object. Caught August 3rd, 2015. We need them to maybe start pointing the ISS cameras outward and stop treating people like children.
We wondered, how easy is it really to find these images of lights — zooming and blinking — in videos recorded live from the space station. After a couple hours of scrubbing through dozens of hours of footage, we found our own UFO on footage from Aug. 23 and it looks a lot like the one discovered on Aug. 3.
The footage is from around midday. In it a “light” or reflection of sunlight appears near the International Space Station and stayed in an exact relative position with the station for minutes at a time, appearing and brightening and then disappearing several times. Remember, the ISS is traveling at roughly 17,000 mph. (The images and video in this story have not been altered or brightened, only zoomed in and portions sped up in the video.)
That’s all we know. We pinged NASA and haven’t heard back. So, is it aliens? Or, sunlight reflecting off a bit of space junk or a satellite?
You decide.
Here’s a video we made of a previous UFO sighting around the ISS.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
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“‘The ISS is being monitored by aliens': Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above the space station” … That’s from the Daily Mail.
The baseline story is this: A recorded archive on NASA’s Ustream channel of the Aug. 3 live video feed from the International Space Station shows a pinkish, bright something or other floating above the Earth near the station. The ISS camera captured the image (all visible in the video above and gallery below) as it was panning right.
That’s it. The video was posted to YouTube and certain social media characters bandied it about as evidence that we’re being watched by aliens and NASA is covering it up. A few news orgs also picked up the story. Here’s what the UFO enthusiast said about the video on YouTube.
‘NO COLOURS HAVE BEEN ALTERED IN THIS OR ANY OF MY VIDEOS ! ‘ THE NEWS MEDIA ARE TRASHING THIS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CHECKOUT THIS NASA LINK – AT 7 minutes in – UFO http://ift.tt/1LEq3GZ a period when the camera is moving for a few minutes, Nasa captures a distant pink and gold object. Caught August 3rd, 2015. We need them to maybe start pointing the ISS cameras outward and stop treating people like children.
We wondered, how easy is it really to find these images of lights — zooming and blinking — in videos recorded live from the space station. After a couple hours of scrubbing through dozens of hours of footage, we found our own UFO on footage from Aug. 23 and it looks a lot like the one discovered on Aug. 3.
The footage is from around midday. In it a “light” or reflection of sunlight appears near the International Space Station and stayed in an exact relative position with the station for minutes at a time, appearing and brightening and then disappearing several times. Remember, the ISS is traveling at roughly 17,000 mph. (The images and video in this story have not been altered or brightened, only zoomed in and portions sped up in the video.)
That’s all we know. We pinged NASA and haven’t heard back. So, is it aliens? Or, sunlight reflecting off a bit of space junk or a satellite?
You decide.
Here’s a video we made of a previous UFO sighting around the ISS.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
If Google Plus is your thing, check out our science coverage here.
from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1hiNUP6
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