Astronaut Leroy Chiao speaks up on UFO sighting during spacewalk back in 2005

Astronaut Leroy Chiao witnessed UFOs during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2005. The pioneering astronaut, who served as commander of the ISS nine years ago, finally speaks up on the UFO sighting that he experienced.

From October 2004 to April 2005, Leroy Chiao stayed at the International Space Station to carry out a space mission. According to the Liberty Voice report, the astronaut took a stroll outside of the ISS with Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov to install the navigational antennas at 230 miles above the Earth and 17,000 miles per hour speed.

It was at that time when Leroy Chiao noticed some lights flew by at a faster speed. "I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line and it was almost like an upside-down check mark, and I saw them fly by and thought it was awfully strange," Mr Chiao recounted to The Huffington Post.

Did Mr Chiao's Russian colleague saw the lights that went by them? The answer is he was not able to because he was looking at the opposite direction.

According to the theory that has been offered for the astronaut's UFO sightings outside of the ISS, the lights that Mr Chiao saw came from the bright lights of a fishing boat located at hundreds of miles beneath him. It is more convincing to hear that the astronaut saw a spacecraft at that time but Mr Chiao revealed that he does not believe there has been any substantial evidence proving a controlled spacecraft visited planet Earth.

"I'm skeptical of claims that we've been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don't rule it out 100 percent. I have an open mind and I do believe there's other life in the universe. If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?" the astronaut explained.

In the Malaysian Digest report, an upcoming program on the Science Channel will be featuring astronaut Leroy Chiao's UFO sighting experience as one of the numerous stories to be told. The UFO sighting outside of the ISS launches the program "NASA's Unexplained Files" as part of the Science Channel's "Are We Alone?" week-long series that commenced on Sunday, March 2.

Reader Comments

Ragnar · 2014-03-05T18:02:59Z

"According to the theory that has been offered for the astronaut's UFO sightings outside of the ISS, the lights that Mr Chiao saw came from the bright lights of a fishing boat located at hundreds of miles beneath him."

LOL that's funny.

AOC · 2014-03-05T21:02:14Z

A fishing boat...

Whose lights are fueled by swamp gas from venus...
Why is it so difficult for them to say it was an unidentified flying object?! I second the Lol.

griffin · 2014-03-05T23:20:22Z

It does seem unlikely...

that a fishing boat's lights could be visible as a mirage passing in the vault of the heavens, 230 miles up. Sure, atmospheric lensing might focus such an array of lights into space, given very unusual weather conditions, but... in the near vacuum of earth orbit at 230 miles height, what reflected them?

glardu · 2014-03-06T08:07:20Z

Reflected by the hazy layer of bullshit that surrounds this world.

why wander · 2014-03-07T11:38:15Z

Dimensional

He may be right that it is unlikely extraterrestrial.... more likely these things are terrestrial and or dimensional. They always have been here and tend to reflect the percipients biases. If your religious its and angel or a devil... if your an atheist its a nuts and bolts craft or a little green man. If your from the east its a djinn or a garuda, if your native its a skin walker or a spirit. Maybe the intelligence mines ones biases and reflects that. The astronaut was careful not to deny what he saw he only alluded to the fact that it was probably not from Mars per se... which it wasn't.
I have seen two black triangles that somehow managed to silence a forest in the middle of summer and not fall out of the sky while barely moving, as well as a blue ball of light cruising around in Az... fascinating... but yeah I don't believe their from mars or Andromeda either... they have always been here.

why wander · 2014-03-07T12:08:57Z

Human mutilation case

WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. Not for children! I am posting this here because I believe this topic needs to be known about and discussed. I know Steven Greer has assured us that these things are all friendly but....

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house · 2014-03-23T18:41:20Z

...and a good day to you, too, Madam or Sir. Don't forget that fear feeds dark forces.

lilies · 2014-03-11T16:16:12Z

The real cause

After extreme moments of concentration I was finally able to solve this mystery:

The light were caused by drunk fireflies that were floating up, then waAay UP on gusts of swamp gas then they could no longer breathe in the upper atmosphere and suffocated. Then the swamp gas in their bellies - which they breathed in via snoring - exploded causing the to become very shiny and speed up to supersonic speeds.

They were holding formation while burning up in the vacuum.

Also they very possibly are now haunting the surroundings, so astronauts probably will see a lot more of these angry "upside-down check mark~~" zipping by.~~