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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.**
Is it hiding behind the lens flare from the sunrise on the left?
Dear God,
I'd like to file a bug report.
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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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.
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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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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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".
Most likely the kind used by governments to spy on their people.
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.
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.
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.
God does not play horseshoes with the universe.