Photo from ISS by Scott Kelly (Photo : Scott Kelly/NASA)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shot down the theory by UFOlogists that a photographed by astronaut Scott Kelly included an alien space craft.
Alien hunters immediately jumped to the conclusion that lights from a photo tweeted by Kelly, taken at the International Space Station (ISS), were from an alien spacecraft.
In reality, it was just a reflection of the ISS, reports Techtimes which received an email from NASA spokesperson Daniel Huot because the space agency received so many queries about the lights in the photo mistaken as UFO.
Huot writes, "We don't typically provide explanations for each and every one that comes through (there are hundreds a month) ... but this one happened to have a very easy explanation."
Because it was taken from a window, it is difficult to take one that does not have some light reflection from the ISS. He points out that similar light problems are encountered by people on Earth who shoot photos through a glass window. The same principle applies in space, he says.
Huot pinpoints the light from the bottom of the Destiny Laboratory as the one that was reflected in Kelly's photo. The name of that window is the Destiny Science Window, which opens to a laboratory that has "the highest quality optics flown on a human-occupied spacecraft."
The lab, as well as the rest of the ISS, is run by humans, not aliens, Huot stresses. However, for UFO believers, the explanation is likely another "cover up" by government of its knowledge of aliens and extraterrestrials, UFOlogists would claim.
