UFO enthusiasts have accused NASA, which oversees the International Space Station, of shuttering a curious feed they say gives new life to signs of life in other parts of the galaxy.
UFO hunter Streetcap1 first noticed the shut-down, saying the ISS stream at first showed an object moving across the screen. Then the object stopped, and the feed went blank, the Mirror reported.
“This could well be a meteor or the like,” Streetcap1 said, in a video posted shortly after viewing the shutdown of the ISS feed. “[But] what made it interesting was that the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop.”
Other UFO watchers suggested the white object seen on the ISS feed could be Tiangong-1, China’s space cargo ship.
But Streetcap1 was certain the object was curious.
“I have watched the International Space Station a lot over the last six years and I can tell you that this is not the moon, nor a meteor,” he said, the Mirror reported. “It may be the Chinese space station cargo ship, called Tiangong-1, or the other one, Tiangong-2.”
NASA, for its part, denied cutting any feeds – but this is not the first time such allegations have plagued the agency.
In April, NASA was put on the defensive over allegations its technicians continuously and purposely shut down feeds when unidentified objects fly into the path of video vision. An agency spokesperson said then that NASA never intentionally cuts video, but that the stream can sometimes be lost due to technical difficulties of signalling from the ISS.
