NASA Solves UFO Mystery: Identified Flying Object Is Cover For Now-Exposed Antenna, But It's Russian, Thus Used To The Cold
NASA now has an "identified flying object", rather than a UFO.
Another space mystery has been solved. What may have been a UFO has been explained.
NASA astronaut Chris Kennedy was chillin' in the space station on Monday morning, about 220 miles above earth, when he suddenly saw a mysterious item floating by. He Tweeted about the item to Mission Control.
Unidentified object floating outside #ISS? Sort of... https://t.co/EvU20YwXvN
— NASA Astronauts (@NASA_Astronauts) August 19, 2013
Ground Control to Major Tom, indeed.
Sadly, however, the object is just an antenna cover the Russians left floating about...not a UFO.
Sort of like a lost sock, the antenna cover is floating about above the space station...and the antenna is exposed to the elements. Because it's Russian, though, it's hopefully used to the cold.
The NASA TV clip shows an object passing near the Progress 52 module, which is attatched to the space station.
The NASA TV narrator says, "Earlier this morning, Chris Cassidy had noted an object that was floating past the station near the station's Progress 52 cargo ship," said the NASA TV narrator. "That object has been identified by Russian flight controllers as an antenna cover from the Zvezda service module."
The first all-Russian contribution to the International Space Station was the Zvezda Service Module. It was first launched from a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
And at that, the mystery of the antenna cover has been solved. NASA explains the inner workings (or breakings) of space again.