A UFO was clearly visible flying past the International Space Station in a CBS News televised report on the NASA evacuation of the space station earlier this week. The footage aired by CBS was taken a something of a revelation by UFO watchers — but what does the CBS footage really show?
Is this spherical object an actual UFO, that is, an spacecraft of unknown, possibly alien origin? Is it “space debris,” which is the frequent NASA explanation for anomalous sightings of weird objects in the vicinity of the space station?
Or is the object an CGI artist’s rendition of what might be going on in space where the ISS is orbiting about 275 miles above the Earth’s surface — an imaginative simulation that had UFO researchers fooled, at least briefly?
The interior of the space station is divided between the NASA section, which is occupied by American astronauts, and the Russian section. On January 14, an alarm went off in the U.S. section , indicating that a dangerous, potentially deadly leak of ammonia gas was in progress.
As an emergency measure, NASA ordered the U.S. astronauts to evacuate into the Russian section. The alarm turned out simply to be a false one. There was no ammonia leak, and the Americans returned safely to their own section of the space station. But naturally, the event sparked a frenzy of news coverage.
While researchers have been unable to determine if the UFO sighting captured in the video above by YouTube UFO video archivist Thirdphaseofmoon had actually aired on any other network, if authentic — which itself is perhaps a dubious proposition — it would mark the clearest sighting yet of the many sightings of UFO images near the ISS.
In fact, this sighting would make four since late October alone. But the extremely clear quality of this one perhaps calls into question its authenticity. Is this sighting simply too good to be true?
A NASA video posted on October 7 during a space walk by two astronauts showed what appeared to be a flat, or perhaps cigar-shaped, UFO hovering in the distance before quickly vanishing from view.
Another NASA space station video on November 3 revealed a moving dot that appeared to be perhaps circling the ISS, or at least flying past it to keep it under surveillance.
Then, on New Year’s Day , another disk-shaped object appeared in a NASA space station video.
Now, the latest NASA UFO sighting near the space station appears courtesy of CBS News . The original CBS report containing the video clip excerpted by Thirdphaseofmoon can be viewed at this link . Watch for yourself and decide. Evidence of alien visitors checking to make sure everything’s okay in the space station during the emergency? Or, like the ammonia leak itself, just another false alarm?