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NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk)

schwit1 quotes a report from Mirror Online: NASA has been accused of an alien cover up after a live International Space Station feed appearing to show a horseshoe UFO suddenly went down. Conspiracy theorists are having a field day over the sighting of the strange U-shaped object hovering on the horizon of the the ISS. They claim NASA 'cut the live feed' after the glowing blue object flew too close to the space station. Some have even gone as far to say NASA's funding should be cut over their 'great alien deception.' Scott Waring of UFO Sightings Daily first discovered the UFO. He passed the footage on to Tyler Glockner who uploaded the video to his YouTube channel secureteam10. What do you think: is it an alien spaceship or something more likely such as a reflection from a station window?

412 comments

  1. Now do you believe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    God is coming to get you!

    1. Re:Now do you believe? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 1

      "Threatening me with eternal damnation won't get you in any faster."

    2. Re:Now do you believe? by rickb928 · · Score: 1

      God will not throw a horseshoe.

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    3. Re: Now do you believe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      God does not play horseshoes with the universe.

    4. Re:Now do you believe? by l0n3s0m3phr34k · · Score: 1

      "What does God need need with a " horseshoe shaped ufo?

    5. Re: Now do you believe? by rickb928 · · Score: 1

      Whoosh...

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      deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
    6. Re: Now do you believe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah I've seen one on top of my neighbors house shaped like an image of an eye but lit up real bright steaks of light came out it came from the north east sky at around 10:10central time Donna, Tx. At first it appeared as if the beginning decent of a falling star or a jet liner at its flight as a tiny star like light traveling the night sky. Then suddenly, as its starts descent south eastward to shifting direction going westward with immense increase in speed within 3-5secs it was hovering apprx 30-40ft a few feet larger than my neighbors house in width. This was at night. It only hovered about2-3secs then did an sudden attempt to get closer to me as i was standing 30-35ft from it. I quickly turned away from it started running inside the house. I thought it was going to attempt to pick me up. I guess it thought i was heading to get a weapon to shoot it as i would imagine our dear government would know about it. I mean a bunch of thoughts crossed my mind. And I'm a christian I'm not supposed to believe in ths stuff. But I can't remain ignorant now that I've seen. Already researched about their existence.end story not good. To destroy one another.they thought us how to put elements together to make iron and they control the witches and warlocks that control Halloween and spring breakers season.they control minds of children by the teachings of cursings taught to leaders such as Lady Gaga,Beyonce, JayZ, Lebron James,etc.even from masonry from the past. The aliens powers are similar to the light balls Angels have from heaven that shoot thoughts lights bouncing around in black space inside your brain with all colors of spectrum but with more light green lights bouncing around than the rest of colors. Then suddenly they relay whatever the message of great importance may be. In mine it was that my dad was about to have a heart attack.i wasin buffalo New York.he was here in Donna tx.i ended up texting my brother and told him to checkup on dad as this brother witnessed one of the angelic light balls3ft wide.floating3ft high.my brother confirmed it next morning2000miles away.my dad was about to have a heart attack.doctor said it was a good thing he called the ambulance when he did cuz my dad was just about to have a heart attack.it turned out being true.i see similarities from air force jet pilots when they encountered a vessel.when i saw real close similarities i these are the begins Jesus said in scriptures about who they are and what their intentions are.they come to feed off this planet and place us to work for them.the Egyptians controlled our people and otherpyramid civilizations have done the same with the powers creatures gave them. Relentlesschristian@ Yahoo.com is my email battery is about to dd

    7. Re: Now do you believe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wtf are you taking man?

    8. Re: Now do you believe? by salnikov · · Score: 1

      How do you know that the universe is not a horseshoe for a god?

    9. Re: Now do you believe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      God got me and took me out for coffee. We had a nice chat

  2. Alien Bastards by puddingebola · · Score: 5, Funny

    First they take my dish TV out last weekend during the playoffs, now they attack the space station.

    1. Re:Alien Bastards by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      Think of the potential for urban pacification :D

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    2. Re:Alien Bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      with my headphones

    3. Re:Alien Bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not to mention YouTube will now be suggesting alien-nut conspiracy videos to me for the the next three weeks.

  3. Seems obvious by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly it was a reflection off a window. (Collects check from alien conspiracy.)

    1. Re:Seems obvious by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I agree. (Paypal from Illuminati received)

    2. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      It has all signs of a reflection, even the color split. Something bends the light and splits it into different wavelengths, just like a rainbow. It is red at the bottom (long waves) and blue on the top (short waves). What precisely causes this is a good question, but my guess is a curved lens/window getting hit by sunlight at a certain angle.

      I wouldn't be surprised if somebody insists the light is bend by a cloaking device though. Once people start to believe NASA stopped going to the moon because the aliens said they would attack earth if they did or talked about it, then I'm willing to believe people will claim anything to "prove" aliens exist.

    3. Re:Seems obvious by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I agree. The light is bent by a cloaking device. So we have double confirmation.

    4. Re: Seems obvious by D.McG. · · Score: 5, Funny

      The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

    5. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think it looks more like a space fart.

    6. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I disagree, I think it was the 15-mile-wide prop from Independence Day movie remake... So not a real space ship.

    7. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I love me some Men in Black.

    8. Re:Seems obvious by Allasard · · Score: 1
      I think it's most likely the edge of some Aurora, based on the height off the earth and the changing appearance he showed.

      Just like this video: (Which is time lapsed, so much faster movement)

      Youtube
      or this pic:
      Pic

    9. Re:Seems obvious by Layzej · · Score: 4, Informative

      Neil Tyson talks about UFOs and the argument from ignorance "UFO. The U stands for unidentified. You can't say 'I don't know what it is, so it must be an alien from outerspace visiting from another planet.' If you don't know what it is... "- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    10. Re:Seems obvious by Anon-Admin · · Score: 1

      I thought it looked like a Sprite

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      But Im at work and can not watch the video.

    11. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was lens flare, seen it many times. A few days ago just before sunrise on the ISS, I watched the moon setting. That was a nice shot, couldn't record it fast enough to capture it though.

    12. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

      Hey, why not? It worked for J. Allen Hynek.

    13. Re:Seems obvious by Sperbels · · Score: 1

      This illusion appears to last far longer than a typical sprite.

    14. Re:Seems obvious by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Neil Tyson needs to stfu and recognize the fact that no matter how hard he tries he will never be Carl Sagan. And I LIKED Pluto.

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    15. Re:Seems obvious by Coisiche · · Score: 0

      people will claim anything to "prove" aliens exist.

      They already do and not just for aliens. Replace "aliens exist" with any false statement and it sums them up. For example, "the earth is flat", "god exists", "Obama was born in Africa", "trickle down economics works", the list is endless.

    16. Re:Seems obvious by ryanmc1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      We have consensus. The science is now settled and anyone that says otherwise is a denier.

    17. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There is no such thing as a cloaking device (Collects latinum from Romulan handlers)

    18. Re:Seems obvious by ripvlan · · Score: 1

      I was going with martian finger print on the glass. or spec of dust and/or sunlight hitting the lens.

    19. Re:Seems obvious by omnichad · · Score: 2

      my guess is a curved lens/window getting hit by sunlight at a certain angle.

      JJ Abrams already ruined Star Trek with too much lens flare. Now he's going after real space.

    20. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It looks an awful lot like a reflection of a Win XP desktop with the default "Bliss" wallpaper to me.

    21. Re:Seems obvious by mrbester · · Score: 2

      What rating denier? If you don't specify a number you'll get rights with the wrong opacity.

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    22. Re:Seems obvious by Loadmaster · · Score: 1

      Triple confirmation.

      This looks cloaked

      I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few cloaks in my time

    23. Re:Seems obvious by ChrisMaple · · Score: 2

      Burberry manufactures cloaks.

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    24. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, it looks like the reflection of a Windows Desktop Screen.

    25. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I concur. (Deposit of Quatloos into my bank account confirmed, thank you.)

    26. Re:Seems obvious by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

      And I LIKED Pluto.

      Hey, you can still like Pluto, we won't think any less of you for it. What happens between two consenting adults or space-borne objects is nobody's business but your own.

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    27. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The BSOD after that looks more like Winblows as usual.

    28. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you really believe that in 100 billion visible galaxies there isn't one speck of life? Wow. If you do, what else on your list may be false?

    29. Re:Seems obvious by JoeMerchant · · Score: 2

      Also, if you ever try to watch the feed in question: http://www.ustream.tv/embed/17... it goes down about 25 times per hour, especially when approaching populated areas. There's nothing suspicious in the coincidence that the feed went down when this image appeared - I'd be more surprised if we got 5 minutes of continuous coverage, of anything, from the ISS feed.

    30. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, that escalated quickly!

      Let me see if this works. Three explanations I can come up with are the reflection mentioned, some other kind of lens issue (lens flare? not a photography/film making expert), or a sprite.

      *checks bank account*

      Yep, the Illuminati are paying good today!

      Captcha: discreet

    31. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Once people start to believe NASA stopped going to the moon because the aliens said they would attack earth if they did or talked about it, then I'm willing to believe people will claim anything to "prove" aliens exist.

      All these worlds are yours... Except Europa.

    32. Re: Seems obvious by Coisiche · · Score: 1

      I meant in the context of them being in cahoots with any government on earth, as the conspiracy in the article alleges. I do absolutely believe that extraterrestrial life will exist but I also absolutely believe that it's never been anywhere near this planet.

    33. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree.. it's a reflection. Also did you know reflections are used to make fake ufo videos ?

    34. Re: Seems obvious by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      ...it goes down about 25 times per hour

      Damn, that's a lot of UFO's... ;)

    35. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's less than ur mom.

    36. Re:Seems obvious by l0n3s0m3phr34k · · Score: 1

      "the police's main job is to protect you" "I'm with tech support, I'm here to help" etc

    37. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, by seeing the video it's plainly obvious it's an alien.
      (cash from conspiracy theorists received)

    38. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gee, I wonder what political party the above poster supports ...

    39. Re: Seems obvious by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Do you really believe that in 100 billion visible galaxies there isn't one speck of life?

      Oh, there is life out there. You can bet on it. But the UFO nutters aren't just saying "there is life out there," they're saying something VERY different, namely:

      1) That this life is intelligent enough to have perfected interstellar travel
      2) That it is exists coincidentally with us
      3) That it feels the need to come to this backward shithole and probe our redneck's asses.

      Yes, it's pretty arrogant to think that we're the only life in the universe. But it's even more arrogant to think that a species so incredibly advanced as to have developed a way to travel across the almost unimaginably vast distances of interstellar space would give a flying fuck about a primitive species that only recent developed simple chemical rockets.

      We wouldn't probably wouldn't even qualify as a child's ant farm to a species that advanced.

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    40. Re:Seems obvious by xanadu113 · · Score: 1

      Clearly you are misled. The moon landing was faked. They couldn't POSSIBLY have flown to the moon, because it's a backdrop for the flat Earth... Also, man will NEVER fly.. it's one huge hoax.. =)

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    41. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey! Where's my cut?

    42. Re:Seems obvious by mindwhip · · Score: 1

      It could also just be a Soviet spy (or for that matter CIA) sat that got carelessly too close to the ISS...

      *checks bitcoin wallet*

      Yup! Absolutely was a spy sat

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    43. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Impossible. Conspiracy theorists are broke ass motherfuckers.

    44. Re: Seems obvious by xanadu113 · · Score: 1

      You forgot about the implants. =)

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    45. Re:Seems obvious by mindwhip · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually forget that... it's a ghost and part of the marketing campaign for the Ghostbusters reboot...

      *checks offshore account*

      what no payment? dam... maybe that was the actual truth :(

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    46. Re: Seems obvious by etinin · · Score: 1

      On Slashdot, even UFOs are M$'s fault!

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    47. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you really believe that in 100 billion visible galaxies there isn't one speck of life?

      Do you really believe anything at all regarding such an unprovable proposition lacking any evidence?

    48. Re: Seems obvious by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      > Yes, it's pretty arrogant to think that we're the only life in the universe. But it's even more arrogant to think that a species so incredibly advanced as to have developed a way to travel across the almost unimaginably vast distances of interstellar space would give a flying fuck about a primitive species that only recent developed simple chemical rockets.

      Actually you're the ignorant one to think that humans are boring.

      For one, Free Will doesn't exist on most planets, so we are _extremely interesting_ to most species as they study the evolution and development of Consciousness.

      i.e. Considering our advancement in a mere 200,000 years compared to most other species that have take 2,000,000 (million) years to reach the same level, yeah, the progression and outcome of The Earth Experiment is highly regarded as being important.

      Sorry that you don't feel your life is special by you. Carry on with your boring life.

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    49. Re: Seems obvious by Mantrid42 · · Score: 1

      Haha, what?

    50. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The police are not actually legally obligated to protect anybody.

    51. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you believe Trump then the govearnment has been covering up the number of alians for a while now. I say we build a wall around ISS. These arnt the good alians we are talking about here with their horseshoe shaped ufos.

    52. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NOOOOOOO!

      or should that be

      Kaaahn! oh hang on he ruined that too!

    53. Re:Seems obvious by null+etc. · · Score: 1

      Considering your name is an anagram of "moon exams", I believe it.

    54. Re:Seems obvious by fsckinhippies · · Score: 1

      Your gender is whatever you want it to be at that moment, we can cover everyone that wants insurance without raising premiums, people that jump the border just want to obey our laws. The list is even longer on my side. What is your point?

    55. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am waiting, bitch

    56. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well you must admit, we have the sweetest redneck ass in all the galaxy. For the aliens I mean! Ahem. Definitely aliens.

    57. Re: Seems obvious by fsckinhippies · · Score: 1

      I* mean it in the context of you will say anything to make your point, back away when challenged, and pretend it never happened. Why did you pick those arguments to come here with? If you put your balls on the table, they may be smashed :)

    58. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The aliens could be anthropologists?

      I failed to confirm that I'm human. Maybe I'm an alien?

    59. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not that I agree with conspiracy theorist, but humans frequently mount expeditions to study wild animals. If something discovered us, it wouldn't be that strange for it to study us as best as they can.

    60. Re:Seems obvious by ventsyv · · Score: 1

      That's exactly what I thought. Coincidently, there have been very strong solar flares the last couple of days.

    61. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Ghost Hunters have been deployed to your location. They will be little late due to the need for a rest room stop at a nearby petrol station, so your floors will be safe.

    62. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Prolly right about reflection. But even before Aliens I would go for secrete military satellite.

    63. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We collect, catalog, and probe species we consider primitive to us such as bacteria and viruses. Why is it so hard to believe that an alien species would be likely to do the same thing to us? We even breed species we consider primitive to us in order to provide test subjects for our scientific study. Why, again, is it so hard for you to believe an alien species would find us intriguing enough to do the same?

    64. Re:Seems obvious by Reziac · · Score: 1

      There's a lot of random space junk floating around up there. I think I'd have to eliminate that possibility before I looked for explanations further afield (even tho I don't think we're alone in the cosmos).

      I did wonder what the triangular one came from; it looks like part of a pressure latch.

      One problem with the footage is there's no real perspective. Is it a tiny object right next to the lens, or a big object far away?

      Another reason these strike me as random space junk is that the shapes look like parts of something else, not whole in themselves.

      As to the apparently-irregular movement, 3D rotation can be very deceptive.

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    65. Re:Seems obvious by gzuckier · · Score: 1

      Clearly it was a reflection off a window. (Collects check from alien conspiracy.)

      Swamp gas, looks to me.

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    66. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

      You forgot to do the flashy thingy.

    67. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree too.

      (Parking ticket vanishes from county records)

    68. Re: Seems obvious by cwsumner · · Score: 1

      Those are not the highly advanced life forms that developed the intersteller drive. Those are their idiot relative tourists, and it's a wonder that they don't leave even more trash around!

    69. Re:Seems obvious by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1

      I agree. (Paypal from Illuminati received)

      Of course! (wife kicks me in the ass)

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    70. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You cannot prove aliens exist anymore than you can prove god exists.
      So stfu about either of them until you have proof.

    71. Re: Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah, but even the lowly Ant Farmer has to check in and tap on the glass once in a while.

    72. Re:Seems obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's why the US faked the Moon landing, including the faked Apollo 13 disaster. No other nation has that capability.

    73. Re:Seems obvious by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Maybe my eyes are going but it didn't look like it moved with respect to the camera, perhaps a small hair on the lens or floating between the lens and window? It looked like it was out of focus, like it was too close to the camera to be properly resolved.

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  4. Hilarious by Sasayaki · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All of this assumes:

    - NASA has enough money to pay someone to watch the feed, their hand hovering over a giant "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button. They don't.
    - NASA knows they might have something to hide, so DOESN'T delay the live stream by one minute in case "Hey, aliens wandered into the frame, let's just static out those seconds and go oops, technical difficulties".
    - The aliens are smart enough to travel between worlds but aren't smart enough to hide from a camera that NASA could have told them, in advance, that they were pointing in this one place (space is VERY big).
    - None of the other observation devices pointed randomly at the sky (including people observing the ISS through their amateur telescopes and stuff, as people are want to do) saw this.
    - The EU, Russians, Chinese and Indians with all their hardware and observation technology (none of whom save possibly the EU have any incentive to cooperate with the US and would, in fact, leap at the chance to discredit and shame them) didn't see it either.

    The worst part is the Schroeder's competence that has to take place here. NASA have to be crazy-dedicated and funded in order to successfully cover up something as obvious as alien spacecraft whizzing around within visual range of the ISS, but also dumb enough to let it get exposed so trivially and easily as a public camera with the world watching.

    When you start to think about it even a little bit the likelihood that it's real, live, true alien visitors and not just some kind of weird light reflection, space debris, or whatever is vanishingly small.

    (...which is exactly what they WOULD say, isn't it...)

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    1. Re:Hilarious by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Your arguments are solid except the first one. Censorship of such a thing (if it were real, ha ha) would be done by the military, not by NASA. Remember, the feds have taps into all long-haul internet links in the country, all email passing across the open internet is archived and data mined (at minimum headers, but since they admit that, I'm going to assume contents) and so on. It's not a stretch to believe that there could be someone with their finger on the button there... if you could believe in aliens, especially.

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    2. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Great points.

      What kind of experience does someone need to get a job in the NASA Alien Coverup PR department? I've been looking to join in one of the great conspiracies of our age and this seems like a solid growth industry with every whack job posting their crazy opinions on YouTube. J/K, right?

    3. Re:Hilarious by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

      So...it's aliens then?

    4. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except the video stream is provided via a wireless downlink that's available to anyone passing under the ISS at the time.

      This is far more likely a routing issue or a technical problem.

      The object clearly looks like a satellite. I'm not even sure where people are getting the shape.

    5. Re:Hilarious by John+Allsup · · Score: 1

      NASA don't pay they guy hovering over the "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button: the NSA and CIA do.

      As for the failure to hit the SHUT IT ALL DOWN button, in a hidden ex-employee processing centre on an unknown island, and ex-NSA operative is having his memory erased.

      They were smart enough, but they trusted NSA's conspiracy-with-aliens department when it said that there was no reason to worry. As mentioned above, the result is a few soon-to-be-ex-employees quickly moved to overseas assignments where their memories are erased, and reasons for dismissal injected, prior to formal disciplinary dismissal proceedings.

      If in doubt, ask a member of the NSA's conspiracy-with-aliens department, and remember to run away and hide before they erase your mind. ;-)

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    6. Re:Hilarious by Surfer51 · · Score: 1
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    7. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      - NASA knows they might have something to hide, so DOESN'T delay the live stream by one minute in case "Hey, aliens wandered into the frame, let's just static out those seconds and go oops, technical difficulties".

      Vaguely recall that NASA instituted a FIVE minute delay on external camera feed from shuttle(?), but continued live feed from inside the craft. That was after a UFO flap several years ago. May be that is the same protocol that ISS also follows.

    8. Re:Hilarious by stealth_finger · · Score: 1

      All of this assumes:

      - NASA has enough money to pay someone to watch the feed, their hand hovering over a giant "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button. They don't

      ...

      When you start to think about it even a little bit the likelihood that it's real, live, true alien visitors and not just some kind of weird light reflection, space debris, or whatever is vanishingly small.

      (...which is exactly what they WOULD say, isn't it...)

      Unless it's government mandated and NASA want the secret to get out! How else to explain how they could fuck up such a trivial job so often......mind.....blown (I wish I could insert that picture of bill and ted whoah face)

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    9. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You could argue that the UFO caused some sort of interference, if you were so minded.

      ( Although I'm not )

    10. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      None of those things are required. This has happened about 4-5 dozen times over the years and each time you had a blurry object come into focus, the moment it does the feed cuts out. All it takes is a very low quality piece of image recognition software and a map saying "this part of the image is safe" with a filter saying "don't blank the screen if it's the Earth." Both the ISS and the Earth would be exceptionally easy to pick out (Zoneminder could do it as the ISS is fixed whenever the camera stops.)

    11. Re:Hilarious by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 4, Funny

      The existence of aliens would drive demands for a HUGE boost to NASA's budget. So much for conspiracies.

      But let's pretend it's a UFO - "Build a dome and make them pay for it!"

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    12. Re:Hilarious by Thanshin · · Score: 1

      Space Debris

      /thread

    13. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Your assumptions are wrong (not saying that it's aliens, but it might be):

      Regarding your first 2 assumptions:
      Maybe the aliens are in contact with NASA/Government
      Hence NASA would know roughly when they'll need to block the feed,
      If they where a bit sloppy about it, some footage could easily have slipped through.
      (so instead of Schroeder's competence we now have sloppy enforcement, and hey that's not at all unlikely)

      Regarding the 3th assumption
      The aliens might just be humoring the governments they're in contact with, they have no reason to hide from us or fear us:
      - they are obviously more technologically advanced then we are (after all they managed to travel here)
      - we have no spacebased defensive/offensive capability AFAIK, and even if we did see the previous point
      - we likely don't know (for sure) where they are from, thus we have no ability to win a potential conflict as we can't take it to them

      Regarding the 4th assumption:
      Space is big, observers are few, and non-official observers are easily discredited if something slips through

      Regarding your 5th assumption
      The aliens might similarly be in contact with the other space-faring governments on the planet

    14. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you. Your post shows just how crazy those Republicans be. They're so stupid they make me what to die.

    15. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The existence of aliens would drive demands for a HUGE boost to NASA's budget

      This. That is why those Republicans lie to the public. They hate science and want us to go back to the dark ages. If they told the truth, space spending would increase. Would increase.

    16. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. They love "space" since it is corporate welfare.

    17. Re:Hilarious by Sasayaki · · Score: 1

      Interesting, since I just learned about this kind of thing...

      This is what's called the ad-hoc fallacy. The fallacy is where one party introduces new information for which there is no evidence at all, except that it fits a conclusion that party has already accepted.

      For example:

      Your neighbour Ted is your best friend, and an honest man. Ted would never steal from you. Yet you come home and find your house is burgled! You find muddy footprints that match Ted's unique shoe-print in your house, and you confide in your wife. "Maybe Ted stole from us..."

      "Or maybe," says your wife, "someone stole Ted's shoes."

      You peek out the window. Ted's shoes are by the door.

      "Maybe," says your wife, "the thief put them back when they were done."

      "Why would they do that?"

      "Maybe they wanted to frame Ted."

      "Why would they want to do *that*? Everyone loves Ted."

      "Maybe Ted owes the mafia a gambling debt from college."

      Etc etc. The problem is there's an infinite amount of bullshit in the world and only a finite amount of truth.

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    18. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In the unlikely event that it's not a reflection, I'd be much more inclined to believe it was some classified sattelite and someone just screwed up and pointed the camera in the wrong direction...

    19. Re:Hilarious by Sasayaki · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh shit, I'm a fuckwit?

      Oh god.

      I... I never knew.

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    20. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Me too. They are ruining the world.

    21. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bernie said he would fix the money wasted on space. He agrees with the Republicans that we must cut this waste, but they want to do it for the wrong reasons.

    22. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Even when repukes do the right thing, they're still wrong because their motivations are wrong.

    23. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They hate science as much as they hate us.

    24. Re:Hilarious by Sasayaki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      >Maybe the aliens are in contact with NASA/Government

      If so, in't it much simpler for NASA to say to these aliens (who can travel between worlds easily), "Hey, don't fly in THIS specific spot during this specific time, by the way it's optical range for a shitty webcam on a fixed, predictable path, so like, it's really really tiny and SPACE IS BIG GUYS, just seriously avoid this tiny strip and you're fine."

      That's like them saying, "Hey aliens, when you're visiting Earth and wandering around totally undisguised, try to avoid the front door NASA headquarters because we are filming a press release there today."

      > The aliens might just be humoring the governments they're in contact with, they have no reason to hide from us or fear us

      So now they're... just trolling us?

      Space is big, so obviously, this is deliberate action. If they wanted to reveal themselves they wouldn't do so via a grainy image from the ISS; they could just appear over New York City and just hover for a while. If they wanted to hide, again, they could simply not be in this one specific spot at this one specific time.

      > Space is big, observers are few, and non-official observers are easily discredited if something slips through

      It's possible to discredit a few people, but with collaboration it becomes harder. I can concede an occasional independent voice may be silenced, but this kind of thing requires a competence that the US government has shown with literally no other part of its administration.

      > The aliens might similarly be in contact with the other space-faring governments on the planet

      That assumes that essentially the Chinese (current frenemies of the US), the EU (a group of many man disparate countries with plenty of quasi-rogue-state elements present), the Russians (traditional enemies of the US and relations are quite cold right now), the Indians (who are third-world aligned but lean toward Russia) would all agree to, under no circumstances, no matter how bad it got, no matter what, including things like the total collapse of the USSR which happened not all that long ago, or during heightened tensions such as Russia playing in the Syrian sandpit, or Russia invading Georgia, or Russia carving up the Ukraine, would never ever blab about this, ever.

      It's the same problem with fake moon landings. The Russians had roughly equal instruments pointing toward the moon and tracked every US launch made there, and put their best minds to work analyzing it (for military purposes). If the landing was fake, they would laud this over the corrupt capitalist pig-dogs for all eternity, but even they acknowledge the US was really there.

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    25. Re: Hilarious by zuckie13 · · Score: 2

      Except it's not a direct stream to the ground. ISS -> TDRS (Hands over to a new satellite three times every 90 minutes) -> Ground -> Streaming service where the guy recorded it.

    26. Re:Hilarious by RivenAleem · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is exactly the kind of misdirecting post someone at NASA would think up to deflect our attention from what they are REALLY trying to hide. How do you explain that the feed DID actually drop out after the reflection showed up?

      What if, the reflection, and the loss of feed are BOTH fabricated to distract us from something even bigger?

    27. Re:Hilarious by Sloppy · · Score: 2

      None of the other observation devices pointed randomly at the sky (including people observing the ISS through their amateur telescopes and stuff, as people are want to do) saw this.

      Yes, but every single one of those people are in on it! That is how diabolical this conspiracy is.

      The EU, Russians, Chinese and Indians with all their hardware and observation technology (none of whom save possibly the EU have any incentive to cooperate with the US and would, in fact, leap at the chance to discredit and shame them) didn't see it either.

      Them too! If there's one thing we all know, it's that humans all over the world always agree to set aside their differences and cooperate for the greater good!

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    28. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It also assumes the world isn't actually flat, which... may be a bit of a stretch.

    29. Re:Hilarious by Evtim · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Basically I have similar arguments when dealing with moon landing deniers. If you take into account the whole effort behind the Apollo program [20 000 companies and universities employed, more than 400 000 people only in US working on it, the constant live feed of the communications between the spacecraft and mission control [that you could listen to yourself with some decent gear], the amateur astronomers watching, the Russians watching etc. it is WAY, WAY more difficult [bordering on the impossible] to fake the landing than to simply go there! Especially in times when movie technology was so much simpler...I mean simulating zero-gravity back then? Not a chance...even today [Gravity] when they tried simulation rather than put the actors in the Vomit comet it is immediately obvious that it is a fake....

    30. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gotta love AC's responding to their own posts.

    31. Re:Hilarious by LWATCDR · · Score: 1

      That is exactly what they want you to think.

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    32. Re: Hilarious by Sloppy · · Score: 2

      Yep, because if I were going to have a classified satellite, I'd put it in orbit near the ISS, where lots of different governments can easily monitor it. That way, they could all cooperate on keeping it a secret from each other.

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    33. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The worst part is the Schroeder's competence that has to take place here. NASA have to be crazy-dedicated and funded in order to successfully cover up something as obvious as alien spacecraft whizzing around within visual range of the ISS, but also dumb enough to let it get exposed so trivially and easily as a public camera with the world watching.

      Wait, this flawed argument has a name?

      Smart people do dumb things. The same goes for organizations. NASA are dumb enough to screw up an entire mission over a confusion between centimeters and inches. They also are crazy-dedicated and funded enough to have sent man to the moon and developed the space shuttle and the Mars rovers. The one doesn't preclude the other, and it's stupid to suggest that it does.

    34. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      aliens!

      no, wait, it's a garbage pod!

      IT'S A SMEGGING GARBAGE POD!

    35. Re:Hilarious by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The worst part is the Schroeder's competence that has to take place here. NASA have to be crazy-dedicated and funded in order to successfully cover up something as obvious as alien spacecraft whizzing around within visual range of the ISS, but also dumb enough to let it get exposed so trivially and easily as a public camera with the world watching.

      I love that term: Schroeder's competence. That's pretty standard in any conspiracy theory. The Conspiracy is a vast network with near-infinite resources and the ability to stage/cover up a complex scheme. At the same time, they are so incompetent that The Hero (usually some guy in his basement posting to YouTube) can easily expose everything they do. It's a power fantasy. "I feel completely helpless in my life so I'll imagine there's a uber-competent group controlling X and then will expose them, making myself smarter than this powerful group and all the 'sheeple' who fell for their ploy."

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    36. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And that's why NASA let it slip. The NSA slipped up on blocking the footage, not NASA.

    37. Re:Hilarious by Not-a-Neg · · Score: 1

      Your forgot the biggest assumption of all: that the alien UFO had pulled into a precision orbit going the same direction and velocity as the space station.

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    38. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Hey, don't fly in THIS specific spot during this specific time,

      it would more likely be 'file a flight plan please'
      and then just switching of the feed when the alien ship enters the view

      Space is big, so obviously, this is deliberate action. If they wanted to reveal themselves they wouldn't do so via a grainy image from the ISS;

      doesn't follow, they don't necessarily _want_ to reveal themselves, or _want_ to hide, they could just as easily have a "who cares either way"-attitude
      if visits are few that could easily explain it

      It's possible to discredit a few people, but with collaboration it becomes harder. I can concede an occasional independent voice may be silenced, but this kind of thing requires a competence that the US government has shown with literally no other part of its administration.

      As soon as you're even talking about UFO's you're already discredited in the eyes of the mainstream. The longer there's an absence of clear and obvious proof the more that is true. The government does not need some big effort to keep that up. Directing attention at or subtly encouracing the occasional crackpot would work plenty well enough to discredit the idea in general

      Besides, how many of what used to be tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories have proven to be true post-snowden?
      Yet most people _still_ consider you a crackpot if you point out that the government is tracking everyone, they don't want to think about it

      As to various governents not on the same side all not talking, that could easily be explained by:
      a) only being known at the highest levels and/or in some deep state black ops agency in each country
      b) the alien equivalent to trinkets the european explorers gave to the less advanced cultures they encountered that they don't want to share because it gives them an advantage

    39. Re:Hilarious by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Funny

      The NSA and CIA are too busy sorting through your emails, tweets and text messages to be doing this kind of shit, you terrorist.

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    40. Re: Hilarious by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Most don't. ;)

    41. Re: Hilarious by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      I actually would have thought they'd be able to come up with better.

    42. Re: Hilarious by Type44Q · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why does no one ever consider the [admittedly remote] possibility that the moon landings were faked... on the moon? :)

    43. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Right, because the military has the time, interest and competence to monitor all these various communications feeds and shut them down. They couldn't even stop a contractor from walking out the door of a secure facility with tons of sensitive documents.... Whenever I hear these conspiracy theories that involve the government engaging in huge multi-decade clandestine operations that are run perfectly with not a single person leaking information, my response is "I only wish my government were competent enough to actually do something like that"...

    44. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      why do you need a guy with his finger on the button.

      space is black. it would be quite easy for a computer to detect something not black moving through the frame and just automatically black out that individual object if it isn't something they expected to be there. then you don't even need to cut the feed.

    45. Re:Hilarious by jittles · · Score: 1

      All of this assumes:

      - NASA has enough money to pay someone to watch the feed, their hand hovering over a giant "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button. They don't. - NASA knows they might have something to hide, so DOESN'T delay the live stream by one minute in case "Hey, aliens wandered into the frame, let's just static out those seconds and go oops, technical difficulties". - The aliens are smart enough to travel between worlds but aren't smart enough to hide from a camera that NASA could have told them, in advance, that they were pointing in this one place (space is VERY big). - None of the other observation devices pointed randomly at the sky (including people observing the ISS through their amateur telescopes and stuff, as people are want to do) saw this. - The EU, Russians, Chinese and Indians with all their hardware and observation technology (none of whom save possibly the EU have any incentive to cooperate with the US and would, in fact, leap at the chance to discredit and shame them) didn't see it either.

      The worst part is the Schroeder's competence that has to take place here. NASA have to be crazy-dedicated and funded in order to successfully cover up something as obvious as alien spacecraft whizzing around within visual range of the ISS, but also dumb enough to let it get exposed so trivially and easily as a public camera with the world watching.

      When you start to think about it even a little bit the likelihood that it's real, live, true alien visitors and not just some kind of weird light reflection, space debris, or whatever is vanishingly small.

      (...which is exactly what they WOULD say, isn't it...)

      Why would they static out the image when they could just have the MIB send out a light pulse and wipe everyone's memory? Kudos to Scott for looking away just in time to save his memory of the incident!

    46. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is no guy. It was too hard to justify a just-in-case job req. The NSA just monitors the UFO channels on YouTube and when when a new video gets over 100 views, they track down the source and turn it off. It's much more efficient when you can have a global web of conspiracy nuts do your work for you for free.

    47. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like Ted was just sleeping with your wife

    48. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What if, the reflection, and the loss of feed are BOTH fabricated to distract us from something even bigger?

      my god are you implying they are hiding an even larger fuzzy horseshoe shaped reflection?!

    49. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The vomit comet is a way simulating zero G that doesn't require going to space. and using aircraft to simulate zero G for training predates the moon landing.

    50. Re:Hilarious by JonnyCalcutta · · Score: 1

      There's actually only 14 people left who aren't in on it. Ironic really that all but 2 of them read Slashdot.

    51. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In an Alanis Morissette kind of way.

    52. Re:Hilarious by kheldan · · Score: 1

      I may be an open-minded person when it comes to subjects like this, but come on, people, let's think things through. At best, what we saw there was some classified government satellite, and the NSA/CIA/whoever has an agreement with NASA to not show it to the public if it happens to be in line of sight of the ISS's cameras. Wouldn't even qualify as a 'conspiracy', just your garden-variety National Security decision.

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    53. Re:Hilarious by careysub · · Score: 1

      Lets add to the story. The destruction of the Columbia on re-entry in 2003 was actually the activation of a destruct mode by NASA to silence the crew when one of the crewmen was heard saying "I've had enough of this lying. I am going to tell everyone about our meeting with the Alien!"

      And look at the list of Shuttle astronauts who have died of "accidents" and "natural causes! Ha I say! Clearly they were taken out to shut them up.

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    54. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Would shift the budget from NASA to the Air Force to build defenses.

    55. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You I like.

    56. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Any classified satellite can be easily monitored by lots of different governments, as well as private individuals, because we can just look up and see them. Their orbits are actively discussed as public knowledge. What is on those satellites and what they're doing, however, is strictly controlled.

    57. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It reminds me of the people who were claiming that the US caused the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean, using nukes or some such. They have a completely distorted perception of what is possible.

    58. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All of this assumes:

      - NASA has enough money to pay someone to watch the feed, their hand hovering over a giant "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button. They don't.

      You know who has money? The various organized religions of the world. Discovering aliens upsets their worldview.

      - NASA knows they might have something to hide, so DOESN'T delay the live stream by one minute in case "Hey, aliens wandered into the frame, let's just static out those seconds and go oops, technical difficulties".

      If you go with the "organized religions" explanation, NASA itself doesn't give a crap about whether aliens wander in-frame but could be willing to disrupt the feed if certain outside interests intervene.

      - The aliens are smart enough to travel between worlds but aren't smart enough to hide from a camera that NASA could have told them, in advance, that they were pointing in this one place (space is VERY big).

      Aliens would have this same view on the matter - don't give a shit, that's a people problem not my problem.

      - None of the other observation devices pointed randomly at the sky (including people observing the ISS through their amateur telescopes and stuff, as people are want to do) saw this.

      Fair point.

      - The EU, Russians, Chinese and Indians with all their hardware and observation technology (none of whom save possibly the EU have any incentive to cooperate with the US and would, in fact, leap at the chance to discredit and shame them) didn't see it either.

      All of these have in common: organized religion.

      </conspiracy_theory/> Do I think I'm right? Most likely not. I'm just illustrating a different viewopoint, which I'm sure there are several more plausible explanations in favour of a UFO coverup.

    59. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sensitive documents? Nothing put out there wasn't anything that was already knows, back from the days when you talked about Echelon and people tagged you as being paranod. Those documents have been boring as hell for anyone doing technical stuff in security.

    60. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NASA does actually pay people to man the NASA TV feeds, there's at least one person in Houston, and one in KSC that produce the feeds. Sometimes they're on autopilot a bit, since they only have to be there for critical ops if it's off hours, but most of the time there is someone sitting there waiting to hit that big kill switch.

    61. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Old joke-- It's true that NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landings. What's not as well known, however, is that to save money, he filmed on location. *rimshot*

    62. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Riiiiiight... he did sleep with his wife, that we can agree upon on the basis of circumstancial, yet overwhelming evidence. That still doesn't explain the burglary, though. Any thoughts, Dr. Holmes?

    63. Re:Hilarious by Agripa · · Score: 1

      Maybe the aliens are in contact with NASA/Government

      Maybe aliens are NASA and the government.

      This is why it is important to vote so the wrong lizard alien does not get into office.

    64. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now you're a humorist. (And a typoist, as you already pointed out).

    65. Re:Hilarious by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1

      That's one way to get a strategic moon base :-)

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    66. Re:Hilarious by Agent0013 · · Score: 1

      As to various governents not on the same side all not talking, that could easily be explained by: a) only being known at the highest levels and/or in some deep state black ops agency in each country b) the alien equivalent to trinkets the european explorers gave to the less advanced cultures they encountered that they don't want to share because it gives them an advantage

      It could also be that when a government does speak up, nobody listens anymore since it is just assumed to be a story told by whack-jobs. The Canadian Minister of Defense has come out and told everyone that governments are covering it up. There are plenty of high up US military personnel that have come out with stories also. But they end up on the alien conspiracy shows so everyone believes it must be fake.

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    67. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      True, but there's an easy test. If you find yourself using the term, then in all likelihood, you are one.

    68. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here I go again, replying a third time!

    69. Re:Hilarious by meerling · · Score: 1

      Maybe it was just a reflection or some other false artifact.
      On the other hand, I wonder if it was some new kind of atmospheric or plasma based event that got recorded which we didn't know about before. (Like the Blue Sprites not so long ago.) That could open up some interesting science for certain fields.

      Aliens? LOL!!!! Not bloody likely. It's funny how so many people upon seeing something they don't immediately recognize jump on the alien excuse.
      If nothing else, and you do assume the alien thing, think about how they'd act.
      Hollywood wants us to think they'll conquer or exterminate us. Yeah, that's obviously not occurring.
      Lots of people think they'd want to make contact. Again, that doesn't fit with what we've seen anywhere.
      Other people think it's being kept a big secret. Other than the general incompetence of the governments of the world, you'd have to assume the aliens with interstellar level tech would be at least somewhat competent at hiding their end of the bargain, and that's obviously not happening.
      Of course, they might not care about us at all. In which case, this apparent incompetent attempts at hiding are also irrational, so that won't fly either.
      It has been suggested it's a big joke. Curse you damned drunken space frat boys! LoL!

      People should try exhausting all reasonable and potentially supportable possibilities before going off on the fantasy explanations of Aliens, Ghosts, Divine Intervention, etcetera.

    70. Re:Hilarious by Zeroko · · Score: 1

      A conspiracy theorist would likely say they fake their incompetence & release documents that do not reveal anything they want to keep secret...

    71. Re: Hilarious by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      It certainly isn't, nor would an anemic comeback like that - or, for that matter, other posts by the parent - have been modded-up under ordinary circumstances. In fact, the sheer volume of desperate shilling going on strongly suggests that this particular topic might be of actual interest (I for one am on the fence, as there's nowhere else to sit for a rational-yet-openminded skeptic)... but the shilling and the bullshit mods certainly make me wonder...

    72. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      so we assumed they can parallel park, what's your point?

    73. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      space is VERY big

      [citation needed]

    74. Re: Hilarious by gzuckier · · Score: 1

      Why does no one ever consider the [admittedly remote] possibility that the moon landings were faked... on the moon? :)

      No! They were clearly faked; it was a landing on the Sun, with the lens stopped way down!!!

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    75. Re:Hilarious by athenaprime · · Score: 1

      Right, because the military has the time, interest and competence to monitor all these various communications feeds and shut them down. They couldn't even stop a contractor from walking out the door of a secure facility with tons of sensitive documents.... Whenever I hear these conspiracy theories that involve the government engaging in huge multi-decade clandestine operations that are run perfectly with not a single person leaking information, my response is "I only wish my government were competent enough to actually do something like that"...

      Well, if they weren't so busy watching satellite feeds for the aliens...

    76. Re:Hilarious by LienRag · · Score: 1

      Non-native english speaker here: what does it mean?
      There is a chance that this word that you keep using actually means what I think it means, but I'd rather have confirmation...

    77. Re: Hilarious by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      If it were a satellite, it would likely be in focus. If you look at the video, the Earth, and parts of the ISS are in focus, while this object is out of focus. This likely means it is something close to the camera, a reflection off of the window (this camera isn't outside the pressurized area), or something moving between the camera and the window (like a hair or dust particle).

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    78. Re: Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Says the Democrat that advocates murdering children for convenience.

    79. Re:Hilarious by Sloppy · · Score: 1

      Everyone, you can either be a conspirator or a theorist. They say the grass is always greener on the other side, but that isn't true at all. The theorists sometimes wish they were with us conspirators, but we conspirators never wish we were the theorists. We'll always have the advantage, so join us!

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  5. Definitely possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...except for the annoying fact that any alien civilization with the technological capacity to merely get here, let alone come in person, probably has the ability to do it without leaving the slightest clue to us primitives.

  6. Blurry by JavaBear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As usual for anything "identified as UFO's" the object is blurry, suggesting the "object" was outside the field of depth, which does seem to be pretty deep as it includes infinity as well as a good amount of the station outside the window.

    Could it be that whatever it is, is very near the lens? **gasp, I used logic, I must be part of the conspiracy then.**

    1. Re:Blurry by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      I don't see how the field of depth is infinity. The edge of the Earth is blurry in the video too. In fact the whole video is blurry.

    2. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. It's either something on the lens or lens assembly or very recent debris from the ISS. I would imagine that NASA has something protecting the actual lens, most likely a spec of dust pitted this. Notice how it's position doesn't seem to change relative to the camera or ISS. Even debris from ISS itself would eventually drift as there is a very, very tenuous atmosphere at that altitude.

    3. Re:Blurry by ledow · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It has all the classic hallmarks

      - It's blurry.

      - It's impossible to gauge distance to any accuracy (but your logic is quite good to narrow the range down quite considerably).

      - It does nothing. In fact, technically, to be "an object" there it would have to be in a partnered orbit, which would mean it would have to have GOT THERE. Are we suggesting cloaking devices too?

      - Incomplete footage. It doesn't appear out of nowhere, it's just there when the footage starts DESPITE it probably being quite easy for whoever captured it to include 30 seconds more at the beginning (where you'll see that reflection / lens flare quite obviously start to come in).

      - It's indeterminate in size, shape. Thus it's probably not an object. And the only thing it doesn't have indeterminate (but which is because of the above) is "speed", which is actually more working against it being anything interesting .

      - It's then zoomed into to "see more detail". Please, please, stop doing this. We're not in Bladerunner.

      Honestly, guys, I would love to witness such a thing. I firmly believe in the Drake equation. I virtually guarantee you there's "something" out there. I also mathematically virtually-guarantee you (I'm a mathematician, certainty is a big word) that we'll never be in the same time/space/evolution that we'd ever be able to communicate usefully.

      I would love to see such a thing in my lifetime. That's a truly ground-breaking thing to be witness to (Where were you when Kennedy was shot, who cares? Where were you when we found out about the aliens? Much more interesting to tell your grandchildren).

      But this sort of shite just makes me shake my head, and I've never seen anything EXCEPT this sort of shite. And so my above beliefs label me - by proxy - as some kind of nutter if expressed poorly.

      Would love to see an alien. This isn't it. It's precisely what all the others are. An unidentified "something" (I can't even call it an object, I think it's lens flare thus an optical effect). And the vast, vast, vast, vast balance of probability is that I could set up a camera and replicate this effect almost perfectly in minutes with an innocent setup (e.g. lens flare, object behind the camera and glass window in front, etc.).

      Nutters, the lot of you.

    4. Re:Blurry by butzwonker · · Score: 1

      Wouldn't it be hilarious if alien space craft actually looked that blurry due to the way their warp drives operate? Oh shit, now that I've said that I realize that somebody will post this "theory" as a plain obvious "fact" somewhere ...

    5. Re:Blurry by butzwonker · · Score: 1

      It's then zoomed into to "see more detail". Please, please, stop doing this. We're not in Bladerunner.

      But... couldn't we 'electronically enhance' it such that after 3 days slowly a picture of dickbutt emerges?

    6. Re:Blurry by medv4380 · · Score: 1

      It's convenient that it cuts out before it can go behind or in front of anything to prove your hypothesis. It's also sitting at the edge of the Earths horizon with no visible star field to again prove your hypothesis. Now what makes it seem like it's probably some light trick is that if it was at the horizon it would be huge, and visible from Earth. It also has an abrupt bounce in it at the 35 to 36 second mark that an object of that size wouldn't be able to do unless it was a trick of the light like a prim being jostled.

    7. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > As usual for anything "identified as UFO's" the object is blurry

      Well, what do you expect Jimmy Hoffa's body to look like after all those years in zero-gravity and sub-zero temperatures?!

    8. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe it has nothing to do with focus or depth of field, but rather that the alien spaceships we get just are blurry.

    9. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      alien space craft actually looked that blurry due to the way their warp drives operate

      Well, duh!

    10. Re:Blurry by ripvlan · · Score: 1

      it is designed to be blurry for a reason .... Plausible Deniability !!!!

      The guys in the lab have to adjust it to be just off-focus before launching. Duh - everyone knows that.

    11. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But consider how sad it is that the article posted just before this one deals with a real physical phenomena and has less than 25% of the amount of comments at this time. People want to inject their two cents on all kinds of "bat crap crazy" topics but when it comes to hard science? Crickets. And this is from a site that prides itself in being geek culture!

      People keep bashing religion as the reason why we don't live in an uplifting and logical society when we see that the whole concept is rotten even at the core. We have openly religious people who are doing more for science in a day than all the neckbeard comic book tin hats do in a lifetime. The basic ideology has been muddled and lost on scapegoats by the lazy who proclaim that they're the enlightened.

    12. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's a great idea for military.

      Design your tank to look HUGE and far away, and like a robot, but really it is actually close and the robot is cardboard with strings.
      The enemy will be firing at 20km away but in reality you are just around at the corner shop buying a bacon sandwich.

    13. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why dont you check out this leaked 2013 footage and check yourself

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHmS1drkEF0

      A ufo goes accross an airport and is spotted on the homeland security planes camera. What drone could possibly make those kind of manouvers? Or split in 2?

      One of the theorys rhat explains ufos and i am persuaed by footage like this is that ufos are in a differrent spectrum/infrared/cloaked is why we cant see them

    14. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Umm, it's a UFO. If it wasn't blurry then we'd be able to identify it and thus by definition it would no longer be an UFO. It's basically impossible to have clear UFO pictures.

    15. Re:Blurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "- It's then zoomed into to "see more detail". Please, please, stop doing this. We're not in Bladerunner."

      Actually you DO get more detail of jpg artifacts when you zoom in: the object looks more "organic" when nearby jpg blocks are being recreated. Some people even see "demon faces" in still jpg pictures when they zoom in enough.

    16. Re:Blurry by ledow · · Score: 1

      No.

      An FO, by definition, is flying (not established here) and an object (also not established here).

      Optical effects are not classed as UFO's in any way, shape or form. Otherwise every rainbow would be a UFO, even lens flare, every glint of sun.

    17. Re:Blurry by ledow · · Score: 1

      Oh, God, the nutters really are out in force today.

      A pair of birds. Or possibly insects (dragonflies, etc.) Many such animals fly close in pairs, especially when mating. And they fly and move and are small enough to need zooming in and have a silhouette that changes constantly.

      Again, you tick ALL the boxes. Two small blurry dots, of indeterminate size, at indeterminate distances, comprising basically a handful of pixels on a CMOS camera element (no matter how much the optics zoom in) poorly recorded, at speed, in a compressed format, from an anonymous "source" (Does homeland security often allow people to copy their footage around?). Short of analysing JPEG artifacts, you're basically getting a full five-nutters-out-of-five there.

      And it's honestly, truly, really, an animal of some kind. Or possibly even insects. It's really that impossible to gauge size, distance, speed, that it could be anything that covers vaguely the same angular coverage and velocity. Draw a cone from the camera CCD. Stick an ant on the covering of the gimballed sphere that planes/helicopters with cameras use to film in 360, then extrapolate the full range of possible coverage back to the known background (houses etc.). Could be anything.

      If they're cloaked, they're cloaked badly.
      If they're cloaked badly, we'd see a lot more of them and a lot more suspicious things than this.
      If they're not cloaked, your argument is a nonsense.

      And this one isn't cloaked because you can see it. Presumably in IR but it's hard to tell the optical range on monochrome imagery, it could be IR, near-IR or some cheap webcam at night (which will pick up all kinds of things). And given that the background is white, and this thing is black, that probably means it's warm and/or visible. Like a bird.

      All the spectrum in the world doesn't explain why they're so crap at actually staying hidden while also never quite managing to be larger than a couple of pixels on any camera in the world, ever.

      Honestly, be scientific, play Devil's Advocate, think "how could I fake that if I wanted to". I can think of a thousand ways but probably the easiest is just film things a lot until something like that happens by chance. I could get a better hit-ratio just by random chance, so long as I remember to delete the things that obviously WEREN'T UFO's (like when the birds wings are clearly visible, etc.).

      I'll be honest... I'd probably lay money on a SINGLE bird of prey, with a camera as crap as that. Constantly moving at speed, over the top of a town, flies down to land/make home towards the end, while twisting and turning in the air drafts.

    18. Re:Blurry by Raenex · · Score: 1

      Honestly, guys, I would love to witness such a thing. I firmly believe in the Drake equation. I virtually guarantee you there's "something" out there. I also mathematically virtually-guarantee you (I'm a mathematician, certainty is a big word) that we'll never be in the same time/space/evolution that we'd ever be able to communicate usefully.

      Where's your mathematical analysis, then, that resolves the Fermi paradox?

    19. Re:Blurry by hucker75 · · Score: 1

      You mean depth of field. Field of depth would be a big lake or something.

    20. Re:Blurry by ledow · · Score: 1

      Different estimates of variables plugged into the same equation.

      You still end up with "life out there". Just not life you're ever going to meet, by chance, in our lifetime.

      And we're talking probability. For the exact reason I say it's VIRTUALLY certain, I can't say it's certain. But to claim that out of billions of galaxies there's one tiny speck of a star for one tiny fraction of an era that produces one tiny planet on which starts life, and it can't happen again.

      Fermi and Drake are the same equations with different values plugged in for variables. I just don't "believe" in the most pessimistic values of the variables. And maths doesn't help you there.

    21. Re:Blurry by Raenex · · Score: 1

      So you aren't willing to demonstrate the actual mathematics behind your "mathematically virtually-guarantee" claim. But we should take your word for it as a self-claimed mathematician.

    22. Re:Blurry by ledow · · Score: 1

      I'm a mathematician. I have a degree from a London university in mathematical and computational sciences. That doesn't make me an astrophysicist or an expert. Never claimed that. In fact, it makes me really crap at arithmetic, spreadsheets and quite a lot of shit (like modern voting, which I refuse to partake in).

      As a mathematician, the maths is infallible. What you're mistaking is the assumptions you plug into the numbers that you put into the maths, their source, accuracy, reliability, variability, and that they reflect any kind of reality or that the equations will give you an answer that's useful. Welcome to maths.

      The Drake equation IS the maths. It's that simple. What's not simple is the numbers you plug into it.

      Drake says, if you plug in what are in my opinion reasonably accurate numbers from the observable universe, that there's life out there to a virtual certainty. But, actually, it also plops out of the equations that the chances of ever coinciding with them in a universe in our entire existence is incredibly miniscule.

      The Fermi paradox is really that if you plug in other numbers, you can get a conclusion that we should have ALREADY been visited and then jumps to a second conclusion that this can't be true (which is a bizarre thing to assume given the timescales that come out of such things).

      Both the same. Different assumptions. Produce differing results. That, through the haze of personal interpretation, can be taken to be anything from absolute bollocks to virtual certainty. But there's a reason that the Fermi "paradox" doesn't get quite as much press as simple Drake equations.

      Find your most reliable set of numbers from sources you believe. Plug them into Drake. See what you get out. Fermi lies almost at the extreme of estimates for the variables. And makes several other assumptions (i.e. that aliens haven't visited us ever since we turned up, which has varying definitions of "visited", "us" and "turned up").

      Hint: A mathematician doesn't dig out the equations and source data until he's dead certain. I'm not, as pointed out. But the maths is there for you to read and Fermi is basically "Ner, ner, we think you're wrong cos, look, we can fiddle the numbers to mean they should have knocked on the door last Wednesday". It doesn't mean that you can prove either wrong or right (proof is a HUGE word in mathematics), they're both mathematically-correct given the assumptions taken. Whether those assumptions are reasonable or bullshit is a matter of personal choice, but run the numbers yourself and convince yourself:

      http://www.classbrain.com/artm...

    23. Re:Blurry by Raenex · · Score: 1

      That's a lot of talking for somebody who "mathematically virtually-guarantee[d]" an outcome. Don't tell me to plug in the numbers, tell me what numbers you plugged in. My guess is you didn't plug any in, and were just talking out your ass.

  7. Lower limb of the moon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Plus some noise and digital artifacts.

  8. OT: wont, not want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    ... as people are wont to do

    1. Re:OT: wont, not want by Sasayaki · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm not a writer, I'm a typoist.

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    2. Re:OT: wont, not want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not a writer, I'm a typoist.

      That, I like so much I'm just gonig to hvae to nkic ti...

    3. Re:OT: wont, not want by Eosi · · Score: 1

      I'm not a writer, I'm a typoist.

      Why are you on Slashdot? Go finish the next novel in the Lacuna saga. Been too long since the last one. :-) Oh, please and thank you. :-)

    4. Re: OT: wont, not want by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      I find it downright hilarious that this got down-modded; surely it would be less obvious just to let the "UFO nuts" spew their nonsense without feeling the need to send out the shills?? :)

    5. Re:OT: wont, not want by Sasayaki · · Score: 1

      Hahaha!

      Yeah, I'm still working on it. :D Thanks for reading though!

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    6. Re: OT: wont, not want by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Just kidding... I really ought to point out, however, that while you may be a writer, you're certainly not much of a thinker.

      I don't currently have mod points, but that line would have made me consider down modding it in some way. You are calling one of your fellow geeks and idiot, and you don't see anything wrong with that.

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  9. Where? by imashination · · Score: 2

    Is it hiding behind the lens flare from the sunrise on the left?

    1. Re:Where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Think JJ Abrams. His Star Trek movies were just practice.

  10. God by ledow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear God,

    I'd like to file a bug report.

    1. Re:God by jeffasselin · · Score: 1

      The zerg are not a bug, they're a feature.

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    2. Re:God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank You for doing Your part, Citizen! This old soldier is still waiting for the UFO to appear in the video. Perhaps it is hiding behind that reflection on the window? No, still nothing.

    3. Re:God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Glad to help you feel like your existence has a purpose.

      --God

      P.S. It's a feature.

    4. Re:God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Still a better love story than Twilight.

    5. Re:God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Dear God,

      I'd like to file a bug report.

      Sure. Can you reproduce the problem?

      Sincerely,

      God

    6. Re:God by ledow · · Score: 1

      But I have a reproducible test case, and have tried many alternate idio - I mean humans.

      If you could at least consider not putting this tripe into the next release, due anywhere from 9 months from now to the next million years, I'd be really grateful.

    7. Re:God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dear Ledow,
        Thank for the report, this will be fixed in Universe 2.0. I just need to finish off a few more features before release.
        One unavoidable side effect will be that nobody will survive "The Great Reboot" to see the changes. :/

      Yours
        God.

  11. Plasma by Brethil · · Score: 1

    Looks like an aurora. Could it be the shock from an explosion?

    1. Re:Plasma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Looks like an aurora. Could it be the shock from an explosion?

      Aha! You have identified the UFO's drive system!

    2. Re:Plasma by swb · · Score: 1

      It looks to me like some kind of plume.

      My question is telemetry -- do we know the orbital location of ISS when the video was taken and can that be used to approximate the location of the phenomena? What part of earth might be centered under that location?

    3. Re: Plasma by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Plumes aren't likely to rise above the atmosphere...

    4. Re: Plasma by l0n3s0m3phr34k · · Score: 1

      The ISS is technically still inside Earth's atmosphere. It's only 220 miles up, which places it inside the thermosphere still.

  12. Maybe NASA is just the first to fall by Cyphase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the aliens cut out the feed themselves. Maybe they're now in control of NASA. Maybe the invasion.. is beginning..

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    1. Re:Maybe NASA is just the first to fall by stealth_finger · · Score: 1

      Maybe the aliens cut out the feed themselves. Maybe they're now in control of NASA. Maybe the invasion.. is beginning..

      Next time one gets back their movements will be...off and they'll seem a bit weird. We'll just say oh they've been in space then BAM giant bug monster eating everyone!

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  13. Re:Unconscionable by phishybongwaters · · Score: 2

    How exactly did this shutdown change your life for the worse? Did you even apply for the jobs you are complaining about? Do you realize that most jobs don't pay a relocation fee? Let me guess, you are also one of those people who thinks healthcare should be a paid for industry, and you'll be DAMNED before you put money into a fund that helps people other than yourself.

  14. UFO? I think not. by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it probably is a cover-up: this blob looks very much like some kind of flying grassy knoll.

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  15. Bored astronauts... by Junta · · Score: 1

    Easy, they got bored and decided to play horseshoes. How hard was that?

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  16. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    +5 Informative

  17. Blue and White or Black and Gold?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is a version of the "Blue / White vs Black / Gold" dress debate, but for nerds.

    The truth is more mundane. We have several secret space programs. This is a fact. What do you think the National Reconnaissance Office does? It launches the biggest rockets in the world carrying the largest satellites for spying. NRO gave NASA TWO Hubble-class telescopes like a big bro gives his hand me down clothes, FFS. Where were those hubble-sized telescopes before that?! They didn't officially exist, and neither does the object seen in the video footage.

    1. Re:Blue and White or Black and Gold?! by butzwonker · · Score: 1

      They are not really secret, though, only what they carry and the capabilities of the satellites are secret. The NRO mission patches are awesome, full of wizards, weird symbols and octopuses. However, it's true that the Brits have once or twice asked hobby satellite trackers to pull down their web pages and I've always wondered why. Perhaps they don't want the public to know where and when they change to a lower orbit (assuming they do)?

    2. Re:Blue and White or Black and Gold?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They are not really secret, though, only what they carry and the capabilities of the satellites are secret.

      And in order to keep their capabilities secret.... guess what you do if one comes into view? Turn off the fucking camera.

  18. If it were aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aliens would be the biggest thing to happen to NASA ever. It would mean an unlimited budget and hiding any alien encounter would be against their best interests.

    1. Re: If it were aliens by jovius · · Score: 1

      You have it backwards. Aliens and UFOs are government created distractions to hide the fact that people who work for NASA are aliens and of extraterrestrial origin.

      "It's like a finger pointing at the Moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you'll miss all of the heavenly glory", a great thinker once said. It basically means that the UFO exhaust flames are in other direction.

    2. Re:If it were aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59zLZ6PpeSA the situation's look at conspiracies

    3. Re: If it were aliens by nintendoeats · · Score: 2

      But...why would a race that has control over time and space want to run an under-funded government agency?...

    4. Re: If it were aliens by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      Astronaut groupies.

      Once you realize they are kind of puritan* it makes sense. Do you realize how long it takes to go from planet to planet. They are horny as sailors. At least they aren't out anal probing or collecting cow uterus, like the pervert aliens.

      * Aliens keep their women back home, barefoot and pregnant.

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    5. Re: If it were aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Same reason they run the DMV. On their home world, bureaucracy was the lowest and most reviled form of torture, apart from throwing an entire species to the Lizard pits of Zith and or dropping a clone bomb with the dial set to "Flying Sarlacs of Yendor". For species they really and truly despise, they prefer the slow sisyphean cannibalism of bureaucracy.

    6. Re:If it were aliens by sociocapitalist · · Score: 1

      Aliens would be the biggest thing to happen to NASA ever. It would mean an unlimited budget and hiding any alien encounter would be against their best interests.

      Unless they themselves are the aliens...

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    7. Re: If it were aliens by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      They work in the CIA?

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    8. Re: If it were aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Boredom. Like using a laser pointer to mess with a cat.

    9. Re:If it were aliens by k6mfw · · Score: 1

      Not really, NASA does employ foreign nationals. They're just like US citizens, only have different color on ID badge.

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    10. Re: If it were aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is a giant weapon.

    11. Re:If it were aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Aliens would be the biggest thing to happen to NASA ever. It would mean an unlimited budget and hiding any alien encounter would be against their best interests.

      Damn! Okay, no need for MIB - you win the internet.

    12. Re: If it were aliens by athenaprime · · Score: 1

      "Gubmint Bureaucracy Simulator 5000! Download the first five levels FREE From Zaxxar's App Store Now! (In-app purchases may cost significant currency. Not responsible for addictive behavior.)"

    13. Re: If it were aliens by Keybounce · · Score: 1

      Oh, so they are sloths passing jokes in the office?

  19. "Appears" by SB5407 · · Score: 2

    The video doesn't show it "appearing", the video starts with it there. And it doesn't move or do anything interesting. Disappointing.

    1. Re:"Appears" by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2

      Yeah, alien spacecraft can hover. Big whoop...

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  20. It's a mic by tgibson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its just a boom mic getting into the shot on the soundstage. You UFO-believers and your wacky theories *rolls eyes*

  21. Oh dear fucking god.... by Lumpy · · Score: 2

    Why dont we just change the name of slashdot to Gawker media?

    Really This is news? you guys are now grabbing crap from nutjob whack sites? I hears there is some great stuff out there on 4chan.

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    1. Re:Oh dear fucking god.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think /. should make a function to automatically post the "Slashdot sucks because this article" complaints. What a shame that the folks who upvoted the submission aren't your clones, now you will have to deal with people who think a bit differently from you. Or who have a better sense of humor.

    2. Re:Oh dear fucking god.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Give me a break. This article is the worst kind of idiocy-mongering, better suited to a site run by someone like Alex Jones.

      That you would invoke tolerance of different opinions, or a sense of humor, just shows how satisfied with the taste of sh!t articles you have become.

      The snark in the summary doesn't fix the fact that the editor decided to run the story in the first place. Is it really funny to play games with the gullibility of our peers when we never let them in on it, and they develop mental disorders because of it?

    3. Re:Oh dear fucking god.... by Lumpy · · Score: 1

      says the kid that is too chicken shit to post under his own account.

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    4. Re:Oh dear fucking god.... by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      Wish I had mod points for ya. You and I don't agree on much, but I'm with you on this.

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    5. Re:Oh dear fucking god.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You said that and yet you use a fake name online. Oh the irony.

    6. Re:Oh dear fucking god.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you sure it isn't a whackjob nut site?

  22. UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's Trump's alien army, they're staging for the invasion after their zombie mind control plan gets him elected president.

    This would be Plan 10. Plans 1-9 already failed.

    1. Re:UFO by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1

      Come to think of it, it does look like Trump's toupee.

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  23. Theme by IndigoZulu · · Score: 1

    Just listen to the music! It must be aliens.

  24. Good fucking Lord by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    This kind of shit is just nuts. UFO sightings have gone down substantially with the invention of pocket high definition cameras. Because inventing magical explanations only works on blurry shit or something very conveniently out of frame. Usually when you see something that isn't blurry, it's been manipulated by digital magic. Captain Disillusion on Youtube is a master at spotting people's failures in digital manipulation. Honestly though, why would we waste any time giving the nutters the time of day? We know it's bullshit. Why do they deserve any notoriety for an overactive imagination? Why do they deserve a bullhorn and spotlight while thousands of scientists doing REAL WORK with INTEGRITY go unnoticed?

    1. Re: Good fucking Lord by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      UFO sightings have gone down substantially with the invention of pocket high definition cameras.

      Have they actually gone down? I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but I'm genuinely curious if the number of sightings have actually dropped. It could be that society just doesn't care anymore, so sightings are no longer brought to the general public's eye. Soviets and aliens have been replaced with terrorists and zombies. The web is filled with so much user generated content that you have to go looking for UFO stuff to find it now. It's all lost in the noise.

    2. Re: Good fucking Lord by Agent0013 · · Score: 1

      Plus, with everyone walking around with their heads down in their screens, who is even going to notice something in the sky anymore!

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    3. Re: Good fucking Lord by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      You were saying?

  25. Space debris perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Looks an awful lot like a very distant, slowly rotating, rectangular piece of mylar reflecting the sunlight. Maybe a thermal blanket from a satellite, or even one of those solar sails that was being tested. IKAROS was about that shape, although much too far away to be seen now.

    1. Re: Space debris perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Space doesn't work that way. The average relative velocity between any two random objects in orbit is in excess of 10,000 miles per hour. It is extremely rare for anything to come close enough to see, and if it did, you wouldn't see it for long.

    2. Re: Space debris perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah. I guess that explains why no one has ever successfully docked two objects in space, huh? Altitude determines velocity in space. The iss just got resupplied last weekend. Who knows what fell off, or got thrown out and is moving at a similar velocity, so is still relatively close.

  26. Sadly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a reflection. It's basically the dress meme, but from outer space. :P

  27. not a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Even if this were an alien spaceship (which it almost certainly isn't) it wouldn't be a UFO. It isn't flying. At best it is a Unidentified Orbiting Object

  28. probably just a spider by dominux · · Score: 1

    happens to me all the time, bit of spider web over the lens. Little buggers get everywhere.

  29. Technically it can't be a UFO by clickety6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technically it can't be a UFO because if it's that high above the atmosphere, it can't be flying :)

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    1. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unidentified FALLING Object.

    2. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by hufter · · Score: 2

      Define flying.

    3. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Eloking · · Score: 1

      Technically it can't be a UFO because if it's that high above the atmosphere, it can't be flying :)

      Funny comment that make me wonder, is there a technical term for unidentified space object? USO?

      --
      Elok
    4. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Tukz · · Score: 1

      Spaceflight is still flying.

      I quote Wikipedia: "Flight is the process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere (the air in the case of earth) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight) ..."

      --
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    5. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      USO? I have it on good authority they like to put on a show.

    6. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by LWATCDR · · Score: 1

      I doubt that flight requires an atmosphere.

      --
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    7. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's not flying. It's falling, with style.

    8. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've seen flight defined as the motion of a solid body in the vacuum or a fluid. Thus submarines, in this definition, fly (when they are immersed).

    9. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by bkr1_2k · · Score: 2

      Falling. With style.

      --
      "Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional."
    10. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Falling with style.

    11. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Newly discovered planet"

    12. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You almost got it. Almost.

      Unidentified Spacing Object.
      It is spacing you were looking for, that is the technical term.

    13. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 1

      I believe Douglas Adams defined it is "Falling on the ground and missing."

    14. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Alien nutters are incapable of distinguishing between the terms "UFO" and "alien spacecraft" because to do so would be to admit that all their made-up speculation is made-up and speculative.

    15. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I doubt driving requires the ground...

    16. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by LWATCDR · · Score: 1

      Correct you can drive a boat or hovercraft.
      See
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
      and
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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    17. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by gzuckier · · Score: 1

      Define flying.

      "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."

      --
      Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
    18. Re:Technically it can't be a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny comment that make me wonder, is there a technical term for unidentified space object? USO?

      My gramma said she was in a USO... and now the anal probe makes sense.

  30. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Trump. He says there are 11 million of them among us :-)

    --
    "Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
  31. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by inasity_rules · · Score: 1

    My brother moved to the states. I'm pretty sure that makes him an alien, even if he is legal. He is an englishman, but does not currently reside in new york.

    --
    I have determined that my sig is indeterminate.
  32. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by ScentCone · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Trump. He says there are 11 million of them among us :-)

    Of course he's wrong. That number is low.

    --
    Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
  33. Just a Communications Handover by zuckie13 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ISS does not have a magic WIFI connection to the ground to stream video 24x7 ISS transmits to the TDRS satellites in Geostationary Orbit which in turn transmit to the ground. It takes three satellites to maintain full voice communication all the way around (East, West, Gap). There are handovers of the communications three times every 90 minutes. Brief video outages are to be expected. NASA can't control when those happen. They just happen when the orbital mechanics say they will.

    1. Re:Just a Communications Handover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NASA has the recording and can download the video if it's interesting at the next pass.

    2. Re:Just a Communications Handover by zuckie13 · · Score: 1

      Yes they can. Silly camera artifacts just are not that interesting.

    3. Re:Just a Communications Handover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... the TDRS satellites ...

      Now there's a missed opportunity. They should've made the acronym TRDS so they could pronounce it 'Tardis' when everything's working right, and 'turds' when not. Instead they got 'tidders' or 'teeders', which just sounds like the satellites are either giggling at you or precariously close to falling...

  34. Donald Trump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Apparently Donald Trump, on hearing this news, has demanded that we build a space wall and the illegal aliens pay for it. (haha.....see what I did there?!)

    1. Re:Donald Trump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apparently Donald Trump, on hearing this news, has demanded that we build a space wall and the illegal aliens pay for it. (haha.....see what I did there?!)

      They already built the Van Allen belt to keep us trapped. Why would they bother to build yet another wall?

  35. coffee break by bkmoore · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the UFO- detection worker was making a cup of coffee and smoking a Lucky when this UFO first appeared and was a little slow on the "chicken switch".

  36. It's not a UFO..... by tekrat · · Score: 1

    It's bigfoot.... in space!

    --
    If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
  37. Sky critters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This looks like a plasma-based lifeform in the ionosphere. They seem to be most visible in the in the infrared spectrum and are attracted to sources of ionization. The variety and size of these creatures seen during the NASA tether incident (look it up) is quite remarkable. Very small ones seem to be attracted to bioplasmic activity at ground level, and have been captured on infrared cameras by Trevor James Constable for decades.

  38. As usual, DNA nails it... by jpellino · · Score: 1

    "On this particular Thursday, things were moving through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet. Several huge yellow slab-like somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds, they hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't. The planet was almost totally oblivious of their presence. They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them; which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."

    --
    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  39. What It Looks Like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To me is looks like:

    • A reflection from behind the camera as the camera shoots through a window.
    • A lens aberration. A mote on the lens that is being distorted/enhanced by the shifting light source.
    • The smoke/dust cloud of an epic explosion in space. Like North Korea nuked a satellite just over the horizon.

    Therefore, it must be aliens. We are all truly fucked.

  40. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There is life elsewhere, but there are no spaceships, no warp drive, no nuclear interstellar probes, no glorious species colonizing the universe.

    They are in the same condition as we are. Made of chemicals, subject to the laws of physics.

  41. Object is probably a classified satellite by JoeyRox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most likely the kind used by governments to spy on their people.

    1. Re:Object is probably a classified satellite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have any of your made-up conspiracy theories ever coincidentally turned out to be right?

    2. Re:Object is probably a classified satellite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Spy sats don't orbit anywhere close to the ISS. Putting one nearby would make absolutely no sense.

  42. Puff of icy projectile that broke the camera. by aXi · · Score: 0

    It's probably mist on the lens at the point where a small icy projectile perforated the lens and broke the camera.

  43. Didn't this happen before??? by os-pc.com · · Score: 1

    Back in January 2015, there was a similar news story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci... And now there's another. People are so dumb now a days that it doesn't even matter what is shown. Technology has also skyrocketed to unparalleled heights in sophistication that the public would simply dismiss it as science fiction. It's not very hard to trigger a shutdown when an anomaly is spotted. I mean come on, what do you think CCTV cameras do when they detect motion? RECORD! Just gotta laugh at some of these comments.

    1. Re:Didn't this happen before??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is a much better article, from the same source.

    2. Re: Didn't this happen before??? by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      The desperation evident in playing this down is extreme; some of the most illogical posts I've ever read on /. are modded +5...

    3. Re: Didn't this happen before??? by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      The comments are retarded to the point of insanity but the fact that they're being aggressively up-modded is... very interesting to say the least.

  44. UFO = Less funding. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    So if this were an actual emergency the public would cut NASA's funding, and I suppose welcome our new overlords?

  45. Obvious by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    Clearly, there's no intelligent life here, so why would aliens care?

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    Just another day in Paradise
    1. Re:Obvious by gzuckier · · Score: 1

      Clearly, there's no intelligent life here, so why would aliens care?

      Got a quota of rectums to probe before heading back to the mother ship.

      --
      Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
  46. Why is this dogshit on Slashdot? by Required+Snark · · Score: 0, Troll
    What moron decided that this should be posted? It's from the UK Mirror, for god's sake, one of the mindless rumor mongering UK tabloids. Nothing from crap merchants of that stripe should ever be allowed here. What's next: psychic alien two headed babies teleported to Earth using microwave ovens?

    It's feeding the fucking trolls. We have enough of this kind of drivel clogging the pipes here already. It's not news, it's not for nerds and it doesn't matter. Why is it here?

    I have a suggestion: fire the dumbfuck who decided let this get posted. Kick their ass off Slashdot. There has got to be some procedure for eliminating incompetent staff members. Clearly this points to the existence of lazy ass slackers who don't give a flying fuck and are just phoning it in. I bet they are watching porn, jerking off and then collecting their paycheck.

    When the new guys took over they said they would fix a lot of stuff. If this is any example then they are just another clusterfuck of jerkoffs who are looking for a free ride involving zero effort. "Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss"

    --
    Why is Snark Required?
  47. huge UFO by hagnat · · Score: 1

    given how little detail we can see from it, one can only wonder it - if its in fact a UFO - is miles away from the space station, and therefore it should be HUGE! bigger than the space station
    therefore, people would've been able to see it from the ground

    --
    "life is a joke, and someone is laughing at me"
  48. Pot Kettle Black by JohnStock · · Score: 1

    "Conspiracy theorists are having a field day" It seems the poster does too if he/she decided to make this an article on /. But keep pushing your blame onto conspiracy theorists instead of yourself.

  49. Jeemuz, blown away..not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the worst post on Slashdot ever. Please don't do this again..pfff

  50. Real UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    UFO = Undeniably Filthy Optics
    Just dust on the lense.

  51. Re:Unconscionable by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    As a tax payer, you don't get to decide what your taxes are spent on, nor does any agency or government official owe you squat for an answer. They may even require you to file a FOIA request to get an answer. Government employees are responsible to those who oversee their agencies...hint: it's not you. You only get to put your $.02 in during elections.

    Yes, there's plenty wrong with the federal government, but your lack of understanding it isn't helping you.

    --
    Just another day in Paradise
  52. Camera Glare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Review the source video (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/85741557/) and you will see that the same phenomenon happening at the beginning of the video when the feed cuts, but also at 1h32m to 1h34m. This coincides with the sunrise moving towards the top left of the screen. Even more proof is that the sun glares from the event happening at the beginning of the video can be lined up to the "craft".

    This is not news. This is bullshit. Why can't reporters do their own research now debunk news before throwing it to the masses?

  53. The USS Enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's what it looks like to me. And what things merely look like are the stuff of conspiracy theories.

  54. Die In A Fire, Shitbag! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Even your mother hates you, you filthy spammer.

  55. Remember what the U in UFO stands for by sjbe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What do you think: is it an alien spaceship or something more likely such as a reflection from a station window?

    Have you forgotten what the "U" in UFO stands for? When you see a UFO you should stop right there. It's unidentified so you don't know what it is. You can make a list of possible explanations but until you have evidence to establish or refute any given explanation you shouldn't go further. If the "evidence" for the UFO is eye-witness testimony then you should examine the drinking habits of the observer.

    There is a saying that when you hear the sound of hoofs you should probably be thinking horses instead of zebras. Point is that there are innumerable explanations FAR more likely than an alien visitation. In fact alien visitation should be at the absolute bottom of any list of possible explanations of a UFO sighting. You might keep it on the list just because you cannot definitively rule it out but it doesn't move higher on the list unless you have some VERY compelling evidence. Some visual artifacts on film doesn't remotely qualify as very compelling.

    1. Re:Remember what the U in UFO stands for by Drethon · · Score: 1

      NO! It stands for saUcer Flying Object. As in flying saucer!

    2. Re:Remember what the U in UFO stands for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well beliefs are just about being uncertain and wanting to know. The obvious "signal to noise" where the noise is usually high. When the noise is high enough people's beliefs start to surface: to some the unknown object in the sky is "possibly alien" (or "possibly secret government airship"), to some the distant unknown furry object is a "bigfoot", to some the pixelated mess in the bushes is the possible JFK killer. Some don't even want there to be any ultimate answers (the mystery is enough for many). The "U" in UFO adds that interesting component.

  56. Maybe science can help? by DrTomAustin · · Score: 1

    Actually looks more like an atmospheric phenomena called a blue jet. These are often times associated with a red sprite and are caused by lightning. The happen in the atmosphere at the upper part of the troposphere and nudging into the bottom-side of the ionosphere. Take a look at the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... They are beautiful and until recently poorly understood but sorry guys not a UFO.

    1. Re: Maybe science can help? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sprites and jets are extremely brief events. They are not persistent.

  57. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    +5 Informative

    Sorry, no. You can't request your own mod up, and I'll never waste one on an AC anyway.

    --
    Just another day in Paradise
  58. Simmer down, there's an easy explanation.. by modi123 · · Score: 1

    Clearly this is just a viral marketing campaign for the new Independence Day 2/ Independence Day: Resurgence movie.

    Clearly! :D

    1. Re:Simmer down, there's an easy explanation.. by aicrules · · Score: 1

      That is not a terrible explanation, nor is it a terrible idea...20th century fox can't let this go to waste

  59. Aliens ha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    you merkins and your aliens and Elvis. Its your governments latest secret spy plane. You don't think they abandoned the shuttle program without some way of putting their new expensive military toys in space do you?

  60. What's with the vitriol? by sjbe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Neil Tyson needs to stfu and recognize the fact that no matter how hard he tries he will never be Carl Sagan.

    Does this anger of yours towards NdGT have a point? Did he pee in your cereal bowl or something?

    And I LIKED Pluto.

    And what is stopping you from continuing to like Pluto? NdGT didn't blow it up with a cannon or anything. Last I checked it's still there, same as it ever was. Even has a heart on it to make it extra lovable.

    1. Re:What's with the vitriol? by penandpaper · · Score: 4, Funny

      NdGT didn't blow it up with a cannon or anything.

      That's what the government wants you to think.

    2. Re:What's with the vitriol? by doggo · · Score: 1

      I'm not sure about Dunbal, but I'm pretty sure NdGT peed in my Cheerios. Somebody did! And who better to blame than that Pluto denier, Neil deGrasse Tyson. He'll pay when our Alien Overlords take their rightful place at the side of Earth Emperor Donald Trump! Confound it!

    3. Re:What's with the vitriol? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Assholes like Neil deGrasse Tyson are the reason why the Milgram experiments were so successful.

    4. Re:What's with the vitriol? by wonkavader · · Score: 1

      Are you not paying attention? It used to be a planet. Now it's too small to be a planet. They've blown 70% of the thing to bits. As space cannon is the only explanation.

      The question is, what are they doing with the bits? Making bitcoins?

    5. Re:What's with the vitriol? by xanadu113 · · Score: 1

      What's next..? We're building a wall around Earth to keep illegal aliens out...?

      --
      -Myke
    6. Re:What's with the vitriol? by BadBlood · · Score: 2

      And we're gonna make the Klingons pay for it.

      --


      Praying for the end of your wide-awake nightmare.
    7. Re:What's with the vitriol? by grcumb · · Score: 1

      What's next..? We're building a wall around Earth to keep illegal aliens out...?

      Overkill. We'll just pen them inside their compound when they land.

      (P.S. Don't smoke the hair. It'll kill ya.)

      --
      Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
    8. Re:What's with the vitriol? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My wife says every guy with a heart on is extra lovable too.

      At least... I think...

      DAMMIT

    9. Re:What's with the vitriol? by cthulhu11 · · Score: 1

      Tyson seems to spend FAR more time criticizing other people than contributing anything positive. It reflects an overblown ego and narcissism and it gets old fast.

  61. Swamp gas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Swamp gas in space? You heard it here first!

  62. Wow, so tyler is pushing his crap here too? by CaptnCrud · · Score: 1

    These guys are known hoaxers and peddlers of fudd, I would take anything from that channel very lightly. Just google secureteam hoaxers, they have been called out and proved to be hoaxers on numerous occasions, sort of surprised this even got press time, it's not the first video like this they have "found".

    Just looked at Scott Warings google++ wall....yep sounds like a credible source, nothing but wild proclamation video posts.....

    People like this are the reason UFO's are associated with nutbars.

    1. Re:Wow, so tyler is pushing his crap here too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was surprised to even see "the mirror.co.uk" here as source of information, let alone known hoax sites. Tells a lot about Slashdot's lack of journalistic taste.

  63. Pony up by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    I for one welcome our giant Equestrian Overlords.

  64. I cannot believe they still think this is a UFO by ramriot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a well known optical issue, where a point source or illumination outside the field of view (sun) scatters light off the diaphragm edges inside the lens (almost square when fully stopped down). The light then passes back out the lens to reflect a second time of the front elements inside surface. This results in multiple images of the point source appearing at a point in the frame that are out of focus and appear to drift and merge.

    Bet you anything you like, if the camera had been even slightly tilted during that clip the "UFO" would have shot across the frame at an integer multiple of the angular tilt.

    This effect in a slightly different manner for UFO believers is repeated often when they insist on seeing Diamond UFO's in video footage taken with a camcorder at full zoom with the iris and focus on auto. What they see with their eyes is an unfamiliar point source of light (planet, plane etc), what the camera see's is an out of focus point source vignetted by the iris to a diamond shape with often the light meter filter giving the bottom half a red or green hue.

    1. Re:I cannot believe they still think this is a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If that's the case, then this would happen several times a day, as the ISS circles the globe multiple times and would encounter the same lens effect quite often.

      Does this shape appear several times a day on the feed?

    2. Re:I cannot believe they still think this is a UFO by Pikoro · · Score: 1

      There's even a photoshop filter to make these things. Lens flares are all the rage for your '90s webpage graphics :)

      --
      "Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
    3. Re:I cannot believe they still think this is a UFO by atticus9 · · Score: 1

      Also if there were UFO's flying around and NASA wanted to cover it up, why would they stream a live feed from external cameras? They have any number of plausible excuses not to do it.

    4. Re:I cannot believe they still think this is a UFO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You really are stupid if you believe the nonsense you just typed.

      This is all bullshit by NASA. There are no aliens, no space and no ISS in fake space. It';s a film set.

  65. IT IS ONLY A REFLECTION by frovingslosh · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is only a reflection. Pay absolutely no attention to the established fact that NASA cuts the feed every time there is one of these reflections. That is just an amazing coincidence.

    --
    I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
    1. Re: IT IS ONLY A REFLECTION by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Well, obviously. They've got to play it down because, um... because if they don't cut the feed and discourage the whackjobs, um.. there'll be a massive load on NASA's servers... and as so eloquently pointed out above, they simply don't have the budget for that kind of nonsense.

    2. Re:IT IS ONLY A REFLECTION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "NASA cuts the feed every time there is one of these reflections"

      See? it fits
      Nasa cuts the feed because they are "Alien" reflections and they don't want you to find out
      The truth is out there Scully (the cigar man told me)

  66. Re:Said this here before on /. ... apk by quonsar · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't they have just blocked us in their hosts file?

  67. It's just GOD by neo-mkrey · · Score: 1

    Generic Orbiting Device

  68. Tyler Glockner is a Jesus Freak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The secureteam10 channel is no more than ufo clickbait to get you to listen to his "Only Jesus can save you" messages.

  69. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Like anyone wants to waste their time on you either.

    If you died today, there are probably 5 people on this planet who would give a shit. And after a week, everyone would go back to drinking their bud lite, as if you never existed. So stop overinflating your worth

  70. Surprised that Whittington did not submit this by WindBourne · · Score: 1

    THis is something that Mark Whittington or some other far right wing nut job, would normally submit and then claim that Obama had stopped the footage so that he could go cut backdoor deals with aliens.

    --
    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  71. Here's a nutty conspiracy theory by omnichad · · Score: 1

    If I was going to pick a crazy conspiracy, I'd say that North Korea was testing a nuclear bomb high in the atmosphere. The gamma rays from the blast created an outward flowing aurora when it hit the magnetosphere.

  72. Kaboom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It looks to me more like an explosion of sorts. Does seem a little strange to be an optical thing.

    The funny thing about the U F and O is only the O is probably real in describing the term. U for unidentified is really relevant only to the person looking at it, so it might be unidentified to you and I but not to NASA or whom ever was running whatever is going on there. That said, the F really doesnt seem to apply in this case as many others also mentioned. ... Now that im thinking about it the O is probably a misnomer also as it might not even be an object.

    How about North Korean failed missle launch ? :D

  73. There is a reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The reason that people are so dedicated to this nonsense is that many people do see aliens. Those people are a small percentage of the population but that still equates to a very large number of people. We can simulate this with a wide array of drugs and/or sensory deprivation chambers but some people will see aliens without any assistance. It is even very interesting to note that there are strong similarities between what different people, from different cultures and backgrounds, hallucinate. They will believe it because they've seen it themselves and when the large number of them that exist pool ideas they reinforce each other and continue looking for evidence to back up their ideas. The internet is a perfect tool for getting people who would otherwise have no access to people with similar (usually minority) ideas to collaborate.

  74. That's no horseshoe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a teapot.

  75. It's Obvious by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 1

    It is clearly a loose wing nut.

    --
    Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
  76. The truth is out there.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Paging FBI Agents Scully & Mulder to the White Courtesy Phone.... :)

  77. I did ~40 yrs. ago... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Live" too (not an 'alien' but definitely a UFO)-> https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    * I know what I saw, & I wasn't under any influence of anything (like booze etc., was too young) & I have a fellow witness to it - even told my parents right off the bat when I ran home (fast)...

    APK

    P.S.=> Say what you will but I know what both myself & a relative(s) saw - trolls harassing me as completely unidentifiable ac downmodding my post are already on me there, I don't care either (not this time, they're off topic morons hiding as usual too)... I'm just merely telling it how it was & I have here + other forums online a couple times as well since 1996 in fact.... apk

    1. Re:I did ~40 yrs. ago... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No one cares, dude.

    2. Re:I did ~40 yrs. ago... apk by Pikoro · · Score: 1

      Wow, you really are a loony. You touched on UFOs, religion, alien visitation, AND the "intergalactic zoo" theory, all in one post.

      --
      "Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
  78. Alien TCAS Alert - G(alactic)TSB Final Report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Appendix A - Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) Excerpt

    H:MM:SS
      3:00:00 PF: [Well, I told you if we cut it any closer those little apes would see us...]

      3:00:00.1 CAM1: CLIMB CLIMB [TCAS warning; continues to end of recording]

      3:00:01:75 P2: [Oh you STUPID fucker ROLL RIGHT HARD]
      H:MM:SS:SS
      3:00:01:80 - 2:01 CAM1: repeated sounds similar to control yoke hitting end-stops

      3:00:02:30 P2: [That's it, I'm dead]

      3:00:02:38 PF: [Wimp!]

      3:00:02:39 CAM1: sounds similar to impact

      3:00:02:41 In-Flight Event Ends

    [ ] - translated from original language
    PF - pilot flying
    P2 - pilot not flying; right seat
    CAM1 - Cockpit Area Microphone 1
    TCAS - Traffic Collision Avoidance System

    Narrative

    Spaceframe bent beyond effective repair during emergency maneuvering which failed to prevent high-speed collision impact and its consequent catastrophic damage. Injury - 1 (minor) Fatal - 0

    Probable Cause

    Pilot Error: failure to maintain controlled flight; collision

    Disposition

    Classified Top Secret - Eyes Only; Pilot Flying transferred as instructor to Ground Staff Training School

  79. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    +5 Informative

    Sorry, no. You can't request your own mod up, and I'll never waste one on an AC anyway.

    OP here. I did not post +5 Informative. I never samefag.

  80. X-37? by thefuz · · Score: 1

    Could this have been the X-37 (OTV 4 / USA 261)? No idea if their orbits intersect at all but I guess a rendezvous would have been discernible well ahead of time (and huge news).

    1. Re:X-37? by fullmetal55 · · Score: 1

      It certainly could be and considering the secrecy of that ship, it could have the feed shut down for secrecy reasons. That is about 1 million times more plausible than aliens.

  81. Most likely... by Topwiz · · Score: 1

    It is most likely a reflection off the end of one of the solar panels and the feed cut out on its own. If the feed was turned off on purpose, it would be more likely that a top secret spy satellite was passing nearby and they didn't want a close up to go out on the feed.

    1. Re:Most likely... by gweihir · · Score: 1

      My money is on spy satellite or the like doing maneuvering. The ISS is a big, juicy reference point.

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  82. Look! Up in the Sky!... by magusxxx · · Score: 1

    Batman vs Superman II: The Return of the Phantom Zone Projector

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  83. Untrue: Your reply proves it... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You did enough to reply & so did those trolling + downmodding me in that link where I posted about it originally.

    APK

    P.S.=> In any event - it doesn't "make me special" anymore than seeing a bird flying by - it just means I have eyes that work along w/ family members of mine seeing the same is all... I told ledow of it here now due to his stating he wished he'd seen aliens etc. is all... apk

    1. Re:Untrue: Your reply proves it... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow. You don't really understand the point of trolling. LOLZzzz!!!!!

      On a more serious note, no one cares, dude.

  84. Ayy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    lmao

  85. Reflection, lens flare, etc. by Tribeca1248 · · Score: 1

    Doesn't look like a UFO to me, intelligent or otherwise. As the earth's surface moves beneath the ISS structures in the foreground, the "UFO" remains static in the video. Occam's Razor, anyone?

  86. Bluejay 4 by cstacy · · Score: 1

    UFO is picking up speed and climbing. I'm going in closer. I can see it now. Whatever this is, it's big. Two cylindrical projections, or maybe a horseshoe. Purpose undetermined.

    Must have taken quite a bit to build a ship like this...

  87. Splat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Obviously it is just a bug on the window or camera lens that they hit when they were flying over I-80.

  88. Not a reflection. No way. by meadow · · Score: 1

    I disagree completely. I totally *does not* look like a reflection. It is moving in the far distance exactly with the surface of the troposphsere/atmosphere when is gradually moving from upper-left to lower-right on the screen as the ISS proceeds through its orbit.

    What it appears to be is some kind of gas/vapor plume which ejected out of the atmosphere for some reason. Perhaps volcanic or other activity.

  89. King Fucker Chicken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sorry! My "bet!"* My Tesla got away from me. American conspiracy theorists; Bah, humbug!

    * 'member when this fucking word sonically was such! And, I'm from NYC and still remember in the 1970s hearing "Yo!" in Times Square and registering its vulgarity / Sturm und Drang / conciseness ---> for the first time. Similarly, fucking "Carmen" and pals fed the Usenet users whom I remember _for the first time_in 1999 writing "my bad." I'll bet someday some scholarly / or homeboy sleuthing will examine this misappropriation? Misattribution? Whatevers. King Fucker Chicken

  90. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mister 649 thousand sure has a lot of self indignation. Different Pepsid BTW.

  91. I've never thought like imbeciles... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See my subject? There's your answer. I've never thought like imbeciles like YOU do that practice "trolling"...

    APK

    P.S.=> On a more serious subject - you're a moron... apk

  92. Known hoaxers secureteam... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If it is an obvious hoax, it will be posted by SECURETEAM. My conspiracy is that SECURETEAM is actually distracting us from real UFO footage.

  93. Found it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So THAT'S where my missing drone went!

  94. Hahahahahahaha by gweihir · · Score: 1

    Must have been some secret mission and they forgot the camera. Stupid on NASA's part, but even more stupid on the part of the people that think this is aliens.

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  95. Peppy says: by the_almighty_gooby · · Score: 1

    Do a barrel roll!

  96. Its the Scientology Spacecraft by neoRUR · · Score: 1

    It's finally happened the Scientology spacecraft has come to take them all away..

  97. Best UFO footage leaked from Homeland Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7dik8ByJA

    The Unidentified Flying object was recorded on video by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, in the sky over Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Ufologists believe that this is the best evidence of UFOs monitoring our activity on planet Earth.

    Please show the video to everyone u know its probly a legit alien orb lifeform thingy

  98. What's the big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Haven't you seen an Asgard cruiser before?

  99. CowboyNeal's horseshoe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You insensitive clods!

  100. Just out of curiosity (pun intended) by SkyLeach · · Score: 1

    If they can stream video in visible wavelengths, why not a data stream that shows multiple wavelengths and allows people to break down and examine the data? We did fund this after all, and since it's an *international* space station none of the data should be capable of a national security classification for secrecy.

    Then there's the problem of the reflection arguments themselves. These pseudo-technical explanations are pure speculation. Either provide the optical physics showing where the reflection comes from, or you're just uttering meaningless possible explanations.

    Finally, since when does a reflection result in a feed being cut? This is the second time we've had a 'reflection' based unidentified visual artifact in a NASA feed, and the second time the feed was cut immediately after. I took a wait-and-see position on the first one, but this is becoming a pattern of behavior that is making me seriously start to question treasonous actions.

    There is no law in the United States that allows for data to be classified as secret from the people of the united states when that same data is already in the hands of other powers. You can't have a situation in which the target of secrecy is ultimately the people in a democratic republic without violating the entire foundation of the system of government itself. How can a people make informed decisions for the purposes of election when they are denied the information part of the equation?

    Bottom line, paired events like reflections and feed cuts are no longer the domain of conspiracy theorists. They are clearly deliberate and planned responses to circumstance. It's time to push for disclosure at this point.

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  101. Aurora by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the aurora. The color patterns and shape changing pattern are consistent with that particular phenomenon, plus it's fuzzy. Unless we're going with the 'UFOs' are fuzzy, just like Bigfoot theory.

  102. She has a strange way of showing it then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: I visited her 2 days ago & we had a great day, so quit projecting your issues onto me, troll - ok? Good.

    APK

    P.S.=> As far as your "die in a fire" crap? Take your own advice... apk

  103. It doesn't move, but the camera is, so nah. by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 1

    The blob stays in the same part of the frame even though the camera is on the station travelling around a Earth at a very high speed. The only thing changing is the position of the sun relative to the cameras field of view through the window, which changes the lighting on the blob. So some astronaut flicked a booger onto the window glass, whoopee! i.e. Meh, space boogers, again.

  104. Incoming transmission! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Please, Earthling, bitch some more. We will add your hate to the collective. Resistance is Futile.

  105. U F O by DarthVain · · Score: 1

    While many seem to be focusing on the "U" portion of the UFO, it just occurred to me that perhaps the "F" part may also not be very meaningful... It stands for flying right? Does something "fly" in space? Flight to me in the traditional sense would mean though an atmosphere using lift...

  106. Re:Aliens and ghosts dont exist by gzuckier · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Trump. He says there are 11 million of them among us :-)

    Actually, Trump says there are 34 million of them, and that's why he can't avoid hiring them. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS...

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  107. Re:Unconscionable by gzuckier · · Score: 1

    I get really tired of my tax dollars paying for things that don't work or go down as the government sees fit. There's no excuse for NASA taking down this camera when it's convenient for them. My tax dollars paid for it. Likewise, when I comtact a government official, they owe it to me to reply. After all, I pay for their salary through my tax dollars. And government officials have no right to circumvent things like the requirement to allow the public to apply for jobs. It's fucking ridiculous when I see a research job at a federal laboratory posted for around $100k/yr, which is only open for applications for six days, and doesn't pay for relocation expenses. That position was written with the intent of giving it to a particular person with every intent of circumventing the requirement to conduct a fair hiring process. And my tax dollars pay for that. It's bullshit. Fuck NASA and the rest of the federal government.

    Oh Mr. Paul, relax, you can run for President next time.

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  108. Oh no! by gzuckier · · Score: 1

    ISIS has UFOs! We're doomed!

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  109. Bloody illegal aliens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bloody go back to your own solar system u illegal aliens.

    Don't Come to my planet for a better life & claim welfare

  110. The feed is cut at regular intervals... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You say nothing then.

    Coincidences do happen. If these oddities and NASA cutting the feed at the same time is so common, please list a dozen times, with citations. I'll even take the crackpot sites.

  111. would you believe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    would you believe,,, politician's hot air in weather balloon ?

  112. NASA LIFTED THE BAN.....? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...On live camera feeds in space? Interesting. They actually stopped the li e feeds because of the UFO's. I guess the NASA Channel needs the ratings. And thats not all they saw. Theres more: see the 7 minute / 1 sec video on YOUTUBE bout the horseshoe UFO

  113. Stat Filler by Art+Challenor · · Score: 1

    “You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrorists. Thus, more stringent and probing methods are called for. Those who transgress in the slightest, or of whom even small suspicions are harboured, must be treated as terrible foes. A lot of rather ordinary people will get repeatedly investigated with increasing severity until the Government Machine either finds enemies or someone very high up indeed personally turns the tide... And these people under the microscope are in fact just taking up space in the machine's numerical model. In short, innocent people are treated as hellish fiends of ingenuity and bile because there's a gap in the numbers.” Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

  114. Poor kids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I think its hilarious that so many people will think of the various ways they can explain this from reflections to cloaking devices. Why not call it for what it is? A UFO. And why is it so far fetched? I mean theres only been thousands of people that have witnessed UFOs over thousands of years including evidence if ancient structures across the world. Hmmmmm I think I'll believe every bit of info the government rams down my throat like a toddler that listens to his mommy because I don't know any better and can't think for myself. Oh and let me call everybody that doesn't agree with the govt a conspiracy theorists. Lmao..yes because the govt has never lied to you. Stay blind people and while you're at it, keep following the flock to the slaughterhouse. And keep believing this govt is here to help you. Let me know how that works out for you. Sometimes I wonder how we can have such a great country with so many ignorant, uninformed people. To each his own I guess.

  115. And you though Alien was a work of fiction... by mrkmpn · · Score: 1

    That's obviously the spacecraft of an Engineer.

    1. Re:And you though Alien was a work of fiction... by mrkmpn · · Score: 1

      *thought

  116. Mushroom Cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like a massive explosion / imperfect mushroom cloud to me. I don't see an alien craft at all.
    Did anyone analyze it enough to figure out where in the world that happened?

  117. Creepy crawly by RatchetDriver · · Score: 1

    Looks like a little creature crawling across the glass very slowly

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