| This week, again, UFO enthusiasts saw a phenomenon and an explanation they didn’t believe matched up. The phenomenon was a bright, second-long streak across a time-lapse video filmed by astronaut Paolo Nespoli; the explanation, as provided by the |
By Meghan Bartels
Newsweek 11-22-17 |
European Space Agency, was that a meteor was burning up as it entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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James Oberg, who used to work in mission control at NASA, is used to this sort of approach to UFO sightings, and in a fascinating interview with Atlas Obscura, he explains why space phenomena trip people up. As a hobby, he has traced back decades’-worth of UFO sightings to more mundane explanations, drawing on his professional expertise in space missions.
