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?

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Maybe NASA is just the first to fall

[Cyphase]

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

Re:Hilarious

[drinkypoo]

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.

I cannot believe they still think this is a UFO

[ramriot]

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.