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| '''UFO sightings in outer space''' by ]s have been documented since the infancy of ]. Early incidents were reported in 1951 when ] and future astronaut ], reported sightings of objects flying higher and faster than the range of known human technology at the time. Other test pilots flying high attitudes have reported similar experiences including ] and ], both of whom described seeing a ] object in 1951 and 1962 respectively.<ref>{{cite interview|title=Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks About UFOs|last= Cooper|first= Gordon|interviewer= Yolanda Gaskins|program=Paranormal Borderlands|callsign= Fox TV|year=1998|accessdate=2014-04-26}}</ref> | '''UFO sightings in outer space''' by ]s have been documented since the infancy of ]. Early incidents were reported in 1951 when ] and future astronaut ], reported sightings of objects flying higher and faster than the range of known human technology at the time. Other test pilots flying high attitudes have reported similar experiences including ] and ], both of whom described seeing a ] object in 1951 and 1962 respectively.<ref>{{cite interview|title=Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks About UFOs|last= Cooper|first= Gordon|interviewer= Yolanda Gaskins|program=Paranormal Borderlands|callsign= Fox TV|year=1998|accessdate=2014-04-26}}</ref> | ||
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UFO sightings in outer space by astronauts have been documented since the infancy of space exploration. Early incidents were reported in 1951 when test pilot and future astronaut Gordon Cooper, reported sightings of objects flying higher and faster than the range of known human technology at the time. Other test pilots flying high attitudes have reported similar experiences including Deke Slayton and Robert Michael White, both of whom described seeing a saucer-shaped object in 1951 and 1962 respectively.
Additional sightings were alleged during the Apollo program including a hoax perpetuated by science fiction writer Otto Binder claiming Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong, had encountered UFOs during the mission.
In 2005 during a six-month mission on the International Space Station, astronaut Leroy Chiao witnessed lights from an object he described as an "upside-down check mark" during a spacewalk with cosmonaut, Salizhan Sharipov. Sharipov did not witness the UFO because he was facing the opposite direction. Chiao was skeptical that the object was a controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft, but did not rule out the possibility. In 2013, bright objects were spotted outside the ISS and was captured by NASA's live cam.
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, believes that extraterrestrials exist and have visited Earth before stating that he was "privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet”, though he admits to have never sighted one himself.
Official analyst and reports have denied claims of extraterrestrial origins though some astronauts and witnesses believe there remain unexplained anomalies.
1965
Gemini 4 sighting
During the Gemini 4 mission, pilot Jim McDivitt spotted a white cylindrical object with a pole sticking out of it. He was unable to make a reference to distance or size of the object. McDivitt tried to take pictures of it, but he failed to capture what he claimed to have seen. NORAD radar also failed to verify his claim.
Gemini 7 bogey
Dr. Franklin Roach, based on his analysis of the transcripts of the crew's discussion, concluded in the book Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects that there were visual sightings made by the astronauts while in orbit which were not adequately explained. James Oberg, based on his trajectory analysis of the Gemini 7 mission, describes the astronauts' comments about a "bogey" as referring to booster-associated debris, and not a reference to some sort of UFO.
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1991
STS-48 incident
A video taken during mission STS-48 of Space Shuttle Discovery while in orbit on September 15, 1991 shows a flash of light and several objects that appear to be flying in an artificial or controlled fashion. NASA explained the objects as ice particles reacting to engine jets, while James Oberg claimed that the flash was from a thruster firing. Philip C. Plait discussed the issue in his book Bad Astronomy, agreeing with NASA.
Dr. Jack Kasher analyzed the movement of the objects in 1996, and found five arguments that the footage could not depict ice particles. However, Lan Fleming found discrepancies in the timestamps in a later version of the video first released by the NASA FOIA office in 1999, leaving some conclusions indeterminate. James Oberg presented a paper at Purdue University that disputed Kasher's five arguments and showed how illumination conditions and thruster firings were capable of producing the sequences in question. He has also posted data and telemetry records that support a prosaic explanation.
Lan Fleming analyzed the movements of the objects and the flash of light that preceded the abrupt change in the course of the objects, and concluded that the exhaust plume from one of the shuttle's reaction control system rockets could not have produced the flash of light. Mark J. Carlotto came to the conclusion that relatively brief firings of shuttle thruster rockets acting on nearby debris particles could not explain the prolonged periods of acceleration indicated by the curved paths of the unidentified objects. However, prolonged periods of smooth acceleration can be explained by atmospheric drag on microscopic ice particles, even though the atmosphere is extremely tenuous at the altitude of the orbiting shuttle. Carlotto also noted that at the end of the event, the shuttle's camera panned down, showing a number of objects moving below the shuttle, and one of the objects appeared to consist of three lobes arranged in a triangular pattern.
1996
STS-75 incident
There was an incident when the Space Shuttle Columbia was deploying a satellite connected to a 12 mile tether that broke. After that, hundreds of objects were captured on a camera circling the disconnected tether.
A model experiment was later conducted to see if an optical illusion could account for the sighting, and the experimenter believed the sighting was an optical illusion.
STS-80 incidents
A video taken during mission STS-80 of Space Shuttle Columbia while in orbit as analyzed by Mark J. Carlotto show three different unusual phenomena on December 2, 1996: Two slow moving circular objects; a strange rapidly moving burst of light near the earth's surface; and a number of fast moving objects in space near the shuttle. The first two can be explained as shuttle debris and an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, respectively. The fast moving objects in space near the shuttle appear as bright streaks, and analysis of their speeds and directions indicates that they are probably not shuttle debris or meteors. An analysis done in 1999 by former Mission Control specialist James Oberg concluded that all the objects were nearby sunlit debris. The report was subsequently endorsed by crewmembers Story Musgrave and Tom Jones. Oberg's comments on a video of the event reiterate this viewpoint.
2001
STS-102 The Washington Sequence
A video broadcast during mission STS-102 of Space Shuttle Discovery while in orbit allegedly recorded on March 19, 2001 by Jeff Challender shows a flash of light and three objects which performed movements which included starting, stopping, accelerating, and making sudden angled turns. Lan Fleming compared the timing of the flash of light and a course change of one of the objects to the timing of shuttle thruster firings and concluded that the flash and the movement of the object could not have been caused by thruster firings.
List of reported UFO sightings in outer space
This is a list of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects or UFOs in outer space.
| Date | Ship | Crew | Description |
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| May 15, 1963 | Project Mercury | Gordon Cooper | Gordon Cooper reported a sighting of a green-hued glowing object approaching his capsule. The alleged UFO was detected by radar. Cooper has denied this incident. |
| June 3-7, 1965 | Gemini 4 | James McDivitt Edward Higgins White |
McDivitt noticed and photographed a "white cylindrical shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it". |
| August 2, 1965 | Gemini 5 | Gordon Cooper | Cooper noticed a silver egg like object with a green light. |
| September 12, 1966 | Gemini 11 | Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Pete Conrad |
Astronauts witnessed an oblong object over Madagascar. |
| November 11, 1966 | Gemini 12 | Jim Lovell Buzz Aldrin |
A UFO was spotted approximately 800 meters away from the spacecraft. |
| December 21-27, 1966 | Apollo 8 | Frank Borman Jim Lovell |
Astronauts reported seeing an unexplained "bogey". |
| June 18-16, 1969 | Apollo 10 | Thomas P. Stafford John Young Eugene Cernan |
They reported a UFO near Hyginus on the Moon. |
| July 20, 1969 | Apollo 11 | Neil Armstrong Michael Collins Buzz Aldrin |
Neil Armstrong was reported to have witnessed multiple UFOs during Apollo 11. An explanation was that the sightings could have been attributed to jettisoned components. Additional stories were accredited to a hoax spread by science fiction writer Otto Binder. Buzz Aldrin claims his words were taken out of context from an interview in 2005 about the incident. |
| November 14-14, 1969 | Apollo 12 | Pete Conrad Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Alan Bean |
Controls on Earth noticed an object near the moon and witness two luminous UFO at close range. |
| November 7-19, 1972 | Apollo 17 | Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans Harrison Schmitt |
The crew witnessed and photographed a greenish-blue UFO hovering above the Moon. |
| February 22 - March 9, 1996 | STS-75 | Andrew M. Allen Scott J. Horowitz |
Hundreds of unidentified objects circling a broken tether were filmed on camera |
| May 19 - 29, 1996 | STS-77 | John H. Casper Curtis Brown Andrew S. Thomas Daniel W. Bursch Mario Runco, Jr. Marc Garneau |
Lights spotted, of uncertain origin: trouble differentiating between ground or star lights. |
| November 19 - December 7, 1996 | STS-80 | Kenneth D. Cockrell Kent Rominger Story Musgrave Thomas David Jones Tamara E. Jernigan |
Ice like UFOs particles were spotted during the mission that had a 90 degree change in trajectory. |
| March 8 - 21, 2001 | STS-102 | James D. Wetherbee James M. Kelly Andrew S. W. Thomas Paul W. Richards |
Trajectory changing particles were seen out the capsule which could not be attributed to thruster firing. |
See also
References
- Cooper, Gordon (1998). "Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks About UFOs" (Interview). Interviewed by Yolanda Gaskins.
{{cite interview}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Unknown parameter|callsign=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|program=ignored (help) - ^ James Oberg (2012-08-25). "Debunking myths about Neil Armstrong". NBC News. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- Lindsey Alexander (2014-02-2014). "NASA Astronauts UFO Sighting". Liberty Voice. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Lee Speigel (2014-03-02). "Astronaut Leroy Chiao Opens Up About His 2005 UFO Sighting". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- Jenalyn Villamarin (2014-03-04). "UFO Sighting: Astronaut Leroy Chiao Finally Speaks Up on UFO Sighting During Spacewalk Back in 2005". International Business Times. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- IBTimes Staff Reporter (2013-04-22). "UFO Sightings: Multiple Objects Spotted Near International Space Station". International Business Times. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- Mike Nizza (2008-07-24). "When an Astronaut Believes in Aliens". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- ^ Lee Speigel (March 27, 2012). "NASA UFO Files Revealed On Science Channel Special". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- Condon, Edward Uhler; Gillmor, Daniel S, ed. (1969). "Chapter 6, section 9: Visual Observations Made by Astronauts, by Dr. Franklin Roach". Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. NY: Bantam Books. pp. 204–208. ISBN 9780552047470.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - Oberg, James (September 15, 1995). "Gemini-7: Lessons and Legends (A 30th Anniversary Revisit) – "Formation Flying", "Lessons Learned" Later, and one "Bogey"".
- "Gemini VII Voice Communications (Air-to-ground, Ground-to-air and on-board transcription)" (PDF). NASA. March 18, 1988. p. 32.
- Carlotto, Mark J. (Summer 2005). "Anomalous Phenomena in Space Shuttle Mission STS-80 Video" (PDF). New Frontiers in Science. 4 (4): 17–18.
- Plait, Philip C. (2002). Bad Astronomy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-40976-6.
- Kasher, Jack (1995–96). "Anomalous images on videotape from Space Shutle Flight STS-48: Examination of the ice-particle explanation". Journal of UFO Studies (JUFOS). 6. Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - Fleming, Lan (October 18, 2003). "Losing the Signal: Proof That Time Stamps on the STS-48 Video Released by NASA Are Phony". VGL.
- Oberg, James (March 31, 1999). "The Great STS-48 Zig-Zag UFO" (PDF).
- Oberg, James. "Proof of the Prosaic Nature of the STS-48 Zig-Zag Video".
- Fleming, Lan (c. 2003). "Analysis of the Light Flash in the STS-48 Video" (PDF). VGL.
- Fleming, Lan (Winter 2003). "A New Look at the Evidence Supporting a Prosaic Explanation of the STS-48 "UFO" Video". New Frontiers in Science. 2 (2).
- Fleming, Lan (Fall 2003). "Examination of Object Trajectories in the STS-48 "UFO" Video". New Frontiers in Science. 3 (1).
- ^ Fleming, Lan (c. 2009). "Space Shuttle Thrusters, Light Flashes, and Ice Particles: Some Insights from an Expert". VGL.
- "Examination of Object Trajectories in the STS-48 "UFO" Video". VGL.
- Carlotto, Mark J. (1995). "Digital Video Analysis of Anomalous Space Objects" (PDF). Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE). 9 (1). Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE): 45–63.
- "Analysis of an Anomalous Object in an STS-114 Video" (PDF). VGL.
- Carlotto, Mark J. (1995). "Digital Video Analysis of Anomalous Space Objects" (PDF). Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE). 9 (1). Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE): 62.
- Carlotto, Mark J. (Summer 2005). "Anomalous Phenomena in Space Shuttle Mission STS-80 Video". New Frontiers in Science. 4 (4).
- "STS-80 UFO - high quality version". RealUFOs. April 21, 2008.
- Evans, Will (January 2003). "Jeff Challender Tracked NASA Flights". The Sacramento Bee. Mutual UFO Network of Indiana (MUFON).
- Challender, Jeff (2005). "STS-102, The Washington Sequence, Part One". Project P.R.O.V.E. keyhole publishing company.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - Challender, Jeff (2005). "STS-102, The Washington Sequence, Part Two". Project P.R.O.V.E. keyhole publishing company.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - ^ Fleming, Lan (2005). "Comparison of the Timing of a Course Change Made by an Object in a STS-102 Video with Orbiter Thruster Firings". VGL.
- Martin, Robert (1999-09-10). "Gordon Cooper: No Mercury UFO". Space.com.
- Don Berliner (18 December 2008). UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-307-49227-2.
- Chris A. Rutkowski (20 September 2010). The Big Book of UFOs. Dundurn. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-1-77070-457-2.
- Maurice Chatelain (1 September 1988). Our Cosmic Ancestors. Light Technology Publishing. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-1-62233-672-2.
- William J. Birnes (6 January 2004). The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print. Simon and Schuster. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-0-7434-6674-5.
- ^ William J. Birnes (15 December 2011). The Everything UFO Book: An investigation of sightings, cover-ups, and the quest for extraterrestial life. Adams Media. pp. 275–. ISBN 1-4405-2647-8.
- ^ Sofge, Erik (December 18, 2009), Footage in the Sky: The Truth Behind NASA's 'UFO' Videos, Hearst Communication
- Drishya Nair (2013-08-27). "Apollo 17 Captures Glowing UFO Above Moon". International Business Times. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- Robert Shapiro; Arthur Fanning (1998). Shining the Light V: Humanity Is Going to Make It!. Light Technology Publishing. pp. 311–. ISBN 978-1-891824-00-5.
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