Object disappeared after few seconds.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BANGALORE: A new YouTube video of astronauts doing spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) has gone viral after a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) was detected, hovering around the astronauts.
One minute and twenty seconds into the video, there is a small object near ISS, watching the astronauts, only to disappear after a few seconds.
The exact size and shape of the UFO is hard to determine as the video is foggy and blurred. But the object has raised the curiosity of many UFO-mongers, who have already started building up theories regarding the footage.
The astronauts who went for the spacewalk on October 7 include Expedition 41 Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency. Their mission was to walk outside the ISS to relocate a failed cooling pump and to install a power cable device designed to provide backup electrical capability to the station’s rail car system. Their spacewalk was the 182nd in support of station assembly and maintenance and the first of both the astronauts.
A few comments on the YouTube page read:
Michael Moen: Why is it whenever these sightings are made, everyone in the actual situation is oblivious and there’s no official report or explanation about it. I was just waiting for the guy on the radio to tell one of them to turn around and look at what the camera’s picking up.
Brian Landau: I’m not saying this is authentic but wow and it looks like a triangle which has been sited reported and documented many times before, and if it is real “UFO” i would think it would be like a drone.
Another video posted on a YouTube channel, hirdphaseofmoon, has garnered more attention as they have tried to take a close look into the UFO. The video titled “WOW!! UFO Sightings UFOs Visit ISS during Space Walk,” got 78,500 views and 1,500 comments whereas the original NASA footage got just 25,000 and 92 comments.
According to Daily Mail, the first UFO to be sighted near ISS was during a live feed of NASA. A UFO researcher from Taiwan, Scott Waring, took the screenshot of what appears to be a glowing disk. After further zooming into the image, he found that the disk was a kind of a space vehicle with a dome on the top and a long line down the middle. Soon after the appearance of the UFO, NASA took the live video feed offline. When NASA resumed the feed, the object had vanished, just like what had happened in the new UFO video.