seeder Posted November 7, 2013 #1 Share Posted November 7, 2013 UFO 'Donut' Caught on ISS Live Video A strange, donut-shaped, transparent UFO was spotted in a video made from the NASA International Space Station (ISS) live stream on November 4. The video, posted to USTREAM.com, lasts for about three hours. But it's around the 1:38:00 mark that the weird, ring-shaped unidentified flying object appears. After morphing into a crescent shape and changing colors for about five minutes, the object suddenly disappears from view. The disappearance coincides with the ISS flying over the Terminator, the line separating day from night and clearly visible from space. Whoever made the video must have had a purpose. Were they aware that the object would appear during that time period? http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981963083 Watch vid here, ffwd to 1.38 and keep watching http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/40481898 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Terreur Posted November 7, 2013 #2 Share Posted November 7, 2013 DUH-DUH-DUH-DUUUUUUHHHH!! i just tried to watch it, but the screen stayed black. In the comments below there was a youtube link for this vid, but when i clicked on that, i was told the content "is not available"......! Cover up or Jacques' crappy hardware?? YOU DECIDE! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted November 7, 2013 Author #3 Share Posted November 7, 2013 DUH-DUH-DUH-DUUUUUUHHHH!! i just tried to watch it, but the screen stayed black. In the comments below there was a youtube link for this vid, but when i clicked on that, i was told the content "is not available"......! Cover up or Jacques' crappy hardware?? YOU DECIDE! MIB silencing the internet again? Try this one http://www.ufocasebook.com/2013/ufo-donut-caught-on-ISS-live-video.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Terreur Posted November 7, 2013 #4 Share Posted November 7, 2013 thanks for the other link, man! didn't work though, i guess it's got something to do with my work computer still running on windows 2000... what struck me though when i watched the still was that it slightly resembles those so-called "UFOs" from that notorious NASA "tether incident"...that was explained, right? could it be the same phenomenon? Gaaahh... i leave it to you guys with 21st century gear for now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted November 7, 2013 #5 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I will be keen to hear Jim's take on it, but as sunlight affects it, surely it has to be a camera defect? They say a lens flare is ruled out, and reflection, but as you say, it does remind one of the STS ice particles. Condensation on the camera lens maybe? Also, the object appears to reflect sunlight and travels at a relative, constant distance from the ISS as well as maintaining a consistent speed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted November 7, 2013 #6 Share Posted November 7, 2013 (edited) Dunno about this particular one, but some ISS camera lenses have a central obstruction (just like mirror (or reflex or catadioptric) lenses), which means all out of focus objects (usually that means things quite close to the camera) will be donuts. It certainly looks like a bokeh donut... Eg, here's some from one of my old 'cat' lenses: same thing, except this lens had a quite large central obstruction hence the skinnier donuts, and the stuff causing the donuts (which are sunlit sparkles on water) was far away rather than close. Edited November 7, 2013 by ChrLzs 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted November 7, 2013 Author #7 Share Posted November 7, 2013 And here it is caught on radar Nah sorry folks its not got anything to do with the ISS, Im just kidding...But after Chrlzs's photo shows the donuts anomaly I had a quick google search to see if I can find more, the above was one of them but is a known radar anomaly http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1373605/An-icing-The-mysterious-doughnut-shaped-clouds-really-mea.html And I found another similar over someone's HOUSE!... So for sure its got to be something to do with the camera/lenses.... And as other have said, Jim O will put the story straight Tell you what though, that clip was 3 hours long and not much happening, so 'credit' to whoever patiently watched it all - and found the above couple of mins of donut flying ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted November 7, 2013 #8 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Isn't it amazing how an inexperienced amateur observer here on earth, with not a clue about photography, lenses, optics, imaging, space sciences, orbital mechanics, operational aspects of a spacecraft, etc, etc, can pore over video footage like this, and spot something that looks odd and they don't understand... no, wait, it's not that amazing. BTW, I note that TOM ROSE is responsible for an awful lot of these UFO videos, and he never seems to give a source (as in who spotted the anomaly). So I wonder if he is the person I described above? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahn Posted November 7, 2013 #9 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I'm sure it's dust within the mechanism, but I will defer to those more knowledgeable in camera optics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted November 7, 2013 #10 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I'm sure it's dust within the mechanism, but I will defer to those more knowledgeable in camera optics. Close.. but these blobs usually move across the field of view - which means they aren't on/in the camera/lens. It's usually ice or similar debris, often sunlit, that is drifting past the window quite close to the camera. Because the camera is focused pretty much on Infinity so as to image the earth below, the little bright nearby speck is thrown out of focus. The shape of the out of focus blob (technically called 'bokeh') is determined largely by the lens' design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted November 7, 2013 #11 Share Posted November 7, 2013 (edited) I would think a reflection or a lens thing.. i notice the appearance and disappearance of the "donut" coincides with the brightness of the sunLIGHT in the view. ..and it never moves... it remains stationary in relation to the ISS. Notice though .. that clouds pass OVER the donut... how does that happen if it's a lens or reflection thingy going on ??? .. ??? I saw an energy donut in the 70's .. It's movements were unexplainable really. Edited November 7, 2013 by lightly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted November 7, 2013 Author #12 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Isn't it amazing how an inexperienced amateur observer here on earth, with not a clue about photography, lenses, optics, imaging, space sciences, orbital mechanics, operational aspects of a spacecraft, etc, etc, can pore over video footage like this, and spot something that looks odd and they don't understand... no, wait, it's not that amazing. BTW, I note that TOM ROSE is responsible for an awful lot of these UFO videos, and he never seems to give a source (as in who spotted the anomaly). So I wonder if he is the person I described above? OK so on that bit of name info I went back to the OP link http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981963083 At the bottom of the article its says "Image courtesy of NASA and Blogger" The 'Blogger' bit...is a link to this blog http://glancealotlinks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/donut-ufo-spotted-on-iss-live-video.html And straight away we see " Posted by Tom Rose at 3:06 PM". So I googled up 'Tom Rose + UFO' and found this list of stuff by the same man http://www.examiner.com/user-trose11209 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzard Posted November 7, 2013 #13 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Looks like the airy-disk camera artifact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoser Posted November 7, 2013 #14 Share Posted November 7, 2013 UFO 'Donut' Caught on ISS Live Video A strange, donut-shaped, transparent UFO was spotted in a video made from the NASA International Space Station (ISS) live stream on November 4. The video, posted to USTREAM.com, lasts for about three hours. But it's around the 1:38:00 mark that the weird, ring-shaped unidentified flying object appears. After morphing into a crescent shape and changing colors for about five minutes, the object suddenly disappears from view. The disappearance coincides with the ISS flying over the Terminator, the line separating day from night and clearly visible from space. Whoever made the video must have had a purpose. Were they aware that the object would appear during that time period? http://news.gather.c...281474981963083 Watch vid here, ffwd to 1.38 and keep watching http://www.ustream.t...corded/40481898 Just some effect of the camera. Nothing remotely like a UFO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted November 7, 2013 Author #15 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Just some effect of the camera. Nothing remotely like a UFO. he says after we have all offered potential explanations... and 'nothing like a UFO'? Really, what are UFO's really like then? And no dont start pasting endless pics pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinewave Posted November 8, 2013 #16 Share Posted November 8, 2013 That looks a lot like the ice particles from a shuttle video people claimed were UFOs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted November 8, 2013 #17 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Actually, the correct interpretation means it most assuredly is a UFO. No-one can be certain exactly what it is, except that it is near the camera and fairly brightly lit - so... Unidentified. Sadly, a couple of folks on this forum always deliberately MISUSE that term. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinewave Posted November 8, 2013 #18 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Actually, the correct interpretation means it most assuredly is a UFO. No-one can be certain exactly what it is, except that it is near the camera and fairly brightly lit - so... Unidentified. Sadly, a couple of folks on this forum always deliberately MISUSE that term. Wait, so you are saying that UFO does not mean ET? I'm confused...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacelizard667 Posted November 8, 2013 #19 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) I went to www.isstracker.com website, but nothing there could I find about the donut space thingy. All this talk about donuts is just going to make me hungry. Edited November 8, 2013 by spacelizard667 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrom901 Posted November 8, 2013 #20 Share Posted November 8, 2013 That looks a lot like the ice particles from a shuttle video people claimed were UFOs. wasn't the premise re ice particles a claim too? p.s. mind you, i'm not claiming that the bokehs were alien spaceships Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrom901 Posted November 8, 2013 #21 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Actually, the correct interpretation means it most assuredly is a UFO. No-one can be certain exactly what it is, except that it is near the camera and fairly brightly lit - so... Unidentified. Sadly, a couple of folks on this forum always deliberately MISUSE that term. i haven't seen the video in the op yet... but seeing that references were made to the sts-75 case, i wanted to ask whether the bokehs always represent particles reflecting out-of-focus light close to the camera or could they also be from objects further away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scowl Posted November 8, 2013 #22 Share Posted November 8, 2013 he says after we have all offered potential explanations... and 'nothing like a UFO'? Really, what are UFO's really like then? And no dont start pasting endless pics pls Zoser said (if I may paraphrase) that after you see a few UFO's you begin to recognize them because they don't look like anything else. I assumed he was talking about UFO's he had seen on television. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONTEATUS Posted November 9, 2013 #23 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Oh ! now its crystal clear ! Thanks "Z" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted November 9, 2013 #24 Share Posted November 9, 2013 i haven't seen the video in the op yet... but seeing that references were made to the sts-75 case, i wanted to ask whether the bokehs always represent particles reflecting out-of-focus light close to the camera or could they also be from objects further away? http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=257473entry4973913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoser Posted November 9, 2013 #25 Share Posted November 9, 2013 (edited) Actually, the correct interpretation means it most assuredly is a UFO. No-one can be certain exactly what it is, except that it is near the camera and fairly brightly lit - so... Unidentified. Sadly, a couple of folks on this forum always deliberately MISUSE that term. A good percentage of UFO's are not from this world. That conclusion is unavoidable.A Edited November 9, 2013 by zoser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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