An unidentified disc-shaped object passed within 82 feet of the International Space Station during an October NASA video feed, according to Scott Waring, according to Attack of the Fanboy.
The researcher estimates the object measured roughly 23 feet across. It was large enough to cause serious damage had it collided with the station.
The footage captures the approach of a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to the orbital outpost.
Waring runs the website UFO Sightings Daily and highlighted the encounter in a YouTube video. He expressed astonishment that mission personnel failed to address the object during the broadcast.
The crew on board the DragonX said nothing about it, not NASA control, not even the station itself,
Scott Waring
The researcher also claimed the video displays another entity tracking the SpaceX vessel erratically.
Do you see how they’re moving very oddly? Moving like no aircraft we’ve ever seen or spacecraft. It doesn’t conform to physics the way humans expect things to. The way it moves is bizarre,
Waring said.
NASA officials documented the mission as a standard uncrewed docking sequence. The SpaceX cargo vehicle delivered more than 6,300 pounds of scientific hardware and supplies to the outpost autonomously, with no official mention of an unidentified craft or near miss.
The agency relies on the U.S. Space Surveillance Network to monitor debris and potential hazards in low Earth orbit, where objects generally exceed 10 centimeters in size.
According to NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office, debris travels at speeds ranging from 15,700 to 17,900 miles per hour.
Station operators typically execute collision avoidance maneuvers when tracked items project to pass within a few miles and collision probability exceeds one in 10,000.
Critical American components feature shielding designed to withstand pieces up to one centimeter across. The station has completed 41 collision avoidance maneuvers since 1999.
The space station observation arrives alongside several other recent aerial anomalies reported across different regions.
An airline passenger filmed a triangular object above Utah. A similar triangular shape was recorded near a Mexican volcano.
A British Airways flight carrying 256 passengers reportedly passed within 50 feet of a mysterious object over England. Pilots over Ohio photographed an unidentified pill-shaped craft.
Waring acknowledged he cannot verify whether the recorded objects represent extraterrestrial technology.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this isn’t a UFO,
he said, adding, But for me, this just confirms that intelligent life is out there.
Why did mission personnel fail to address the object during the broadcast?