The UFO Phenomenon

Blue sphere 'UFO' shows up on NASA camera

By T.K. Randall
November 21, 2016 ·  35 comments

The image gained a lot of attention on social media recently. Image Credit: NASA The Internet was abuzz last week with claims of extraterrestrial visitors after the image, which was taken by the space agency's pair of Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory satellites, appeared on social media courtesy of Facebook user Pamela Johnson.

According to her postings, the anomalous sphere turned up on the feed on November 15th. She also claimed that several frames had been erased from the feed over the following few days.

While some Internet users have hailed the discovery as evidence of something exceptional, others were keen to point out that the 'UFO' was likely nothing more than a graphical glitch.NASA even has a page on its website explaining how STEREO can produce images of this nature.

"Because the images from the Heliospheric Imager (HI) telescopes are built up from a large number of exposures added together, this sometimes results in "double exposures", where data from several telescopes appear in the same image," the article reads.

There is little doubt that the image, far from being evidence of ET, shows nothing more than a common graphical anomaly consistent with combining photographs taken by two satellites.

Source: Inquisitr.com | Comments (35)

Tags: Sun, STEREO, UFO