A former NASA astronaut has come forward to reveal that he personally witnessed “two metallic spherical orbs” passing by his plane in August while flying over Texas.
Leroy Chiao, who served as commander of Expedition 10 to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2004 and 2005, was 9,000 feet in the air when the objects “spinned” on the left side of his plane.
He said one flew on top of the other and each was about a meter in diameter.
“It was bad luck that I didn’t get hit,” Chiao said.
The former NASA astronaut estimates that the orbs were only “about 20 feet away.”
“It could have been a bad result if they had really hit me,” Chiao said. “It happened so fast that there was not even a chance to be scared.”
The NASA veteran, now engineering consultant and entrepreneur, told NewsNation that the strange metallic orbs seemed to evade detection.
“It wasn’t on the radar,” he noted, “air traffic control certainly didn’t alert me.”
“(And) it wasn’t on my screen that shows other aircraft participating with the transponders required by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration).”
“I don’t know what it was,” confessed the bewildered former astronaut.
A former NASA astronaut has come forward to reveal that he personally witnessed “two metallic spherical orbs” next to his plane while flying over Texas. Above, an example of a ‘metal sphere’ weather balloon included in a 2023 report by NASA’s UFO advisory panel.
“It was bad luck that they didn’t hit me,” said Leroy Chiao (pictured), whose NASA missions led him to serve as commander of Expedition 10 to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2004 and 2005. Chaio believes that these strange metallic orbs were a top secret drone test
Chiao broke down the details of his strange late-summer UFO encounter on The Hill at NewsNation, claiming he “got a good look at them,” but “only for a second.”
“I was flying back from Colorado and had just refueled my little plane on the Texas peninsula,” Chiao recalled.
“I was flying back to Houston on an instrument flight plan,” he said, referring to a more formal set of flight rules that are coordinated with FAA air traffic control along known flight corridors and pre-established.
But in retrospect, the former astronaut believes that not only are these orbital UFOs still “mysterious,” but that the government’s lack of transparency about these and other mysterious drones over sensitive US sites has “scary” implications.
“They could tell us what they know,” Chiao said, “and if they really don’t know, that’s a little more disconcerting.”
Citizens, police and politicians have come up with theories about who or what is behind this recent wave of drone reports: from mass hysteria to foreign spies and extraterrestrials: Chiao said he’s leaning toward it being a test of top-secret American technology.
“My first assumption is that this is some kind of military program, some kind of drone,” he said. NewsNation‘but you know it’s hard to say, right?’
“Frankly, I think whoever was operating the drone didn’t know I was there.”
Above: A leaked US military image of what appears to be a metallic-looking orb flying over Mosul, Iraq, in April 2016, included in a classified UFO briefing video shown to multiple US government agencies, according to the reporter of UFOs that obtained the image. , Jeremy Corbell
While playing a 2022 military UFO video taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone in the Middle East, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, a Pentagon UFO hunter, told a NASA panel that: “We see these (‘metallic orbs’) ‘) all over the world, and I see how they make very interesting apparent maneuvers.
bye, who It was an interesting, but ultimately terrestrial, ‘UFO’ case. when he lived aboard the ISS, he said he is personally concerned about some of the possible worst-case scenarios for the mysterious wave of drones in the United States in late 2024.
“It’s quite mysterious,” he interjected. “It’s hard to believe that our government doesn’t really know what’s going on.”
“At first glance, to me, it looks like some kind of military program, our military,” he continued, “and if it’s not that, then it gets a little scarier.”
Chiao said last month’s drone sightings over New Jersey and nearby states, as well as U.S. military bases at home and abroad, appear “too widespread and organized to be any kind of hoax.”
He added that he thinks the Pentagon and the rest of the federal government “could be a little more transparent.”
The FBI and other agencies are investigating the alleged drones, but a Department of Homeland Security representative said Wednesday, Dec. 11, “We have no further information about where these drones are coming from, where they are launching from, where they are landing from.
In New Jersey, Belleville Mayor Michael Melham has also become an outspoken critic of the federal government’s lack of candor about the drone mystery, calling its response “disappointing, to say the least.”
“Over 500 mayors were invited to an unprecedented ‘mayors only’ briefing on such an important issue,” Mayor Melham told the local network. WABC last week.
“Many northern New Jersey mayors traveled nearly three hours round trip, on short notice, to be there,” he explained, “only to learn what could have easily been said over a Zoom call.” Many left.
Journalist and author Michael Shellenberger, who testified before Congress last month about his reporting on a hidden UFO data collection program, obtained a recording of the meeting, in which a New Jersey mayor complained about drones the size of an SUV.
“The mayors are furious,” Shellenberger told Fox News. “One of them came up and said, ‘I had two car-sized drones hovering over my house.'”
Metal orb UFOs have been the most common type of case reported by U.S. military witnesses, according to the first director of the Pentagon’s UFO-hunting All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). former CIA physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick.
“We see these (‘metallic orbs’) all over the world,” Dr. Kirkpatrick told NASA’s UFO advisory group last year, “and we see them performing very interesting apparent maneuvers.”
After mysterious bright lights, according to AARO’s most recent annual reportUFOs, orbs or spheres, remained the most commonly reported this year with 22 percent of all US military sightings.