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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?
First they take my dish TV out last weekend during the playoffs, now they attack the space station.
Clearly it was a reflection off a window. (Collects check from alien conspiracy.)
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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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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.**
... as people are wont to do
Is it hiding behind the lens flare from the sunrise on the left?
Dear God,
I'd like to file a bug report.
Looks like an aurora. Could it be the shock from an explosion?
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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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.
But it probably is a cover-up: this blob looks very much like some kind of flying grassy knoll.
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Easy, they got bored and decided to play horseshoes. How hard was that?
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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.
"Threatening me with eternal damnation won't get you in any faster."
The video doesn't show it "appearing", the video starts with it there. And it doesn't move or do anything interesting. Disappointing.
Its just a boom mic getting into the shot on the soundstage. You UFO-believers and your wacky theories *rolls eyes*
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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Just listen to the music! It must be aliens.
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?
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.
Come to think of it, it does look like Trump's toupee.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
happens to me all the time, bit of spider web over the lens. Little buggers get everywhere.
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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Tell that to Trump. He says there are 11 million of them among us :-)
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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.
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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.
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.
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".
It's bigfoot.... in space!
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"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."
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Most likely the kind used by governments to spy on their people.
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)?
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.
So if this were an actual emergency the public would cut NASA's funding, and I suppose welcome our new overlords?
Clearly, there's no intelligent life here, so why would aliens care?
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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"
"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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Sorry, no. You can't request your own mod up, and I'll never waste one on an AC anyway.
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Clearly this is just a viral marketing campaign for the new Independence Day 2/ Independence Day: Resurgence movie.
Clearly! :D
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.
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.
I for one welcome our giant Equestrian Overlords.
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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.
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.
Wouldn't they have just blocked us in their hosts file?
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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.
God will not throw a horseshoe.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
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.
God does not play horseshoes with the universe.
It is clearly a loose wing nut.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
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).
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.
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Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
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?
"What does God need need with a " horseshoe shaped ufo?
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...
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.
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.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Do a barrel roll!
It's finally happened the Scientology spacecraft has come to take them all away..
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"
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.
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
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.
Whoosh...
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
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...
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...
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
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.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
ISIS has UFOs! We're doomed!
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
“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
That's obviously the spacecraft of an Engineer.
How do you know that the universe is not a horseshoe for a god?
Looks like a little creature crawling across the glass very slowly
Nothing to see here. Move along.