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NASA YouTube Footage Fuels UFO Conspiracies

by Warren Riddle on June 6, 2009 at 08:05 AM


NASA video footage recently uploaded to YouTube by a user named 'secretnasaman' has created a stir among UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists, alike. The hotly debated films come from different space missions, and capture odd, moving lights in the background. In the above film, which follows a test satellite, a light appears at the bottom of the frame around the 1:18 mark and then slowly moves upward out of camera view. A second film, also from a 1996 mission, seems to show numerous unidentified objects zipping around the screen.

Leave it to NASA and the eyewitness astronauts to shoot down the alien claims, though, and ruin everyone's fun. Mario Runco, the astronaut involved in the first incident, attributed the luminescent abnormality to either ground light or a star. According to FOXNews, he said that if it were an alien craft attempting to make first contact, he would "be the first one to step up. I'd want the credit." An astronaut on the second film, Thomas Jones, also dismissed extraterrestrial involvement, saying the points of light were merely ice crystals or residue being moved around by the thruster exhaust plume.

Right. It sounds to us like the men in the black helicopters already got to them. And is it a coincidence that the films are from 1996, when the 'The X-Files' was at its ratings peak? The truth is out there, and it's probably somewhere on YouTube. [From: FOXNews]

Tags: aliens, nasa, top, ufo, youtube

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