UFO Enthusiasts Believe They’ve Spotted a Spaceship Flying by the Sun — Take a Look
- Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:05pm by
Liz Klimas
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The spot in the lower left hand corner is what has some thinking a UFO was flying near the sun. (Image: SOHO via Daily Mail)
Images taken from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) have some UFO fan sites going wild over a potential “spot” that doesn’t look like “anything ever spotted near the sun” before.
(Related: UFO or photo flub? ‘Crazy’ object appears next to Mercury in a blast of solar wind)
First, check out the SOHO clips that were pulled together in this YouTube video:
The images compiled into the above YouTube video were taken by one of SOHO’s sensors, data from which is updated on its website as close to real time as possible.
The Daily Mail records some of the UFO enthusiasts’ thoughts on the spot:
“The unidentified flying object, which bears no resemblance to anything ever spotted near the Sun, somehow manages to withstand the blazing heat thrown off by solar flare activity and the incredibly high temperatures emanating from nuclear fusion generated on the surface of the star. What is it?” asked [Gather News].
UFO fans on YouTube have been highly enthusiastic about the object, with many claiming it as a definite ‘spot’.
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“The video shows what looks like a metallic, jointed spaceship with a gigantic extension, perhaps a boom arm, anchored off its lower end.
“An enlargement of the object makes the enormously large UFO look like a ship straight out of a Hollywood movie.”

This image provides a different contrast without color. (Photo: SOHO via Daily Mail)
If it’s not a UFO, some have raised the possibility that one of the 12 complimentary instruments that sense various factors as SOHO constantly faces the sun in its orbit is creating a distortion.
SOHO was released into orbit in 1995 as a collaborative project between NASA and the European Space Agency to study the sun, its corona and outer atmosphere.
What are your thoughts? UFO or sensor distortion?



















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cranberry
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:38pmReally? wondering what that thing might be – wait until it comes closer and zooms by earth, then we’ll know. Otherwise, its just the reflection off of some space junk. I think i heard somewhere there’s gobs of that out there. Why not pollute space too…
Report Post »Bearfoot
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:58pmIt’s V-ger.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:06pmI’ll tell you what I saw, a bunch of commercials and other interference in the window. I saw nothing.
Report Post »keraz
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:10pmBearfoot, I like your idea. I thought it was the HMS Bounty from Star Trek IV right before Kirk and company did a slingshot around the sun to go into a time warp back to 1980′s San Francisco.
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »They’re on their way here, “To Serve Man!”
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KeystoneState
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:54pmGot the feeling Cheney and his Haliburton croneys are behind this!
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:06pmYou want to watch a wild video? News coverage of UFO‘s and video’s from all over the world. I am sure some of these things are scientific experiments, but they are weird. Also a strange call in to Art Bell, which, who knows, could be a crazy guy, or a set up. You make your own opinions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87PRVP4EQAo&feature=related
Report Post »shanew
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:06pmLOL, i wonder howmany people know V-ger, you got to be atlest 30+ and have watched the startrek.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:14pmLooks like a broken screw, some liberal lazy ass, gubernment desk squatter wouldn’t get off their fat A$$ and remove from the lens ….NEXT
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:16pmLooks like a comet to me. That line, in respect to the sun is many thousands of miles long, I doubt it’s a ufo.
Report Post »JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:22pmIts a GIANT space worm. Freekin worms. Gonna be a worm hole in the sun.
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:42pm@QUAAGAR Yep. They be serving us up on a platter. They’re coming back to harvest their livestock.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:46pmI wonder if they can come up with a budget?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:48pmScrewy Louie ‘s Mother Ship
Take my Fairykahn, PLEASE
Report Post »TNT75
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:18pmIts not V-GER. Its a Klingon bird of prey. Lol
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:03pm@JZS
@ItsJustTim
Here’s your sign…. put on you Nike sneakers and drink your Kool-aid. Your ship has arrived! : )
Report Post »DaddyDave
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:38pmI watched this video, then when it was done I saw a similar image from a February YouTube image, but it was on the opposite side of the sun (Bottom right instead of bottom left), and it looked almost like a mirror image of this video. Looked almost same distance away and everything. So my guess is its something internal to the lense system or camera itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKJT555G0M&feature=player_embedded
Look at around a minute and a half in this video. Looks like a camera artifact and nothing more.
Report Post »liberalescheisskopf
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:53pmClean the lens. Next you will see a large insect walking across the sun……oooo! How can it stand the intense heat!…00000000! Film at 11′.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:58pmIF…that is an actual artifact near the sun, it has to be close to a light second in length. A generation ship from elsewhere?
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:34pmwhat’s the ole saying, never let a good crisis go to waste…
Report Post »awestruck
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:16pmFunny, Brother Bear!
Report Post »Am I looking at that wrong, or does there seem to be shadow on the side toward the sun?
ishka4me
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:38pmis it just me? since almost all cell phones have video recording capabilities the ufo sightings have decreased. Anybody can release several mylar baloons taped together and record with a vhs, now since milions more have the ability, the reportings are down.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:40amIf it’s the Mayan “gods” on their way back, they have less than 8 months to get here.
Report Post »Bearfoot
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:25amawestruck,
I took a second look and I do believe your right. There is a shadow on the side facing the sun. I am shocked that someone would try to fool us with a faked photo. yuk yuk ha ha.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:27amTo me it looks more like someone paused the video feed rapidly on and off again then on to create distortion and then took a still image of distortion, and claimed “UFO.” Just distorted stars.
Report Post »menticide
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:54amIt will arrive in December, let’s hope it just wants to talk to the humpback whales, and not the Mayans. Because then we might have a problem…
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:49amWEST COAST PATRIOT Maybe they are here so they can vote for Ron Paul?
Report Post »randy
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:47amIt’s the andromeda ascendant scooping up some plasma for their slipstream drive.
Report Post »Anonymouse.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:59amIt’s an artifact from the camera. Here’s something really amazing though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_bu2ykjO4&feature=youtu.be
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:16amSpace junk.
Beam me up, Scotty!
Report Post »Fluidizer
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:44am“Pollute Space”? Pollute infinity? The arrogance the save the world from mankind crowd has gone into space now I guess. We little piss-ants that crawl over this mud ball can no more “pollute space” then we can affect the atmosphere by contributing our barley measurable exhaust gases to the trace gas (C02) that gives life to everything green on our massive planet. If we did, it just make the place a tad armer, and a whole lot greener with richer oxygen. But we cant, and we are not, and to assume so is laughable and the height of an absurd level of arrogant idiocy.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:19amQUAGARR WARRIOR: I wish they would hurry up!!
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:17amThere was a popular scifi space aliens series on TV that was cancelled when the producers discovered that the space aliens wanted to take our blacks back to their planet. The series was cancelled before anyone could find out the details or if it was even true. What I read was that the leaders of the Earth were taking the Space Alien invaders seriously. Maybe the truth is that the Space Aliens wanted white people and the Black leaders of American agreed.
Report Post »charleyrocks
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:56amit;s clear it’s space junk left by man, really smart eh!
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:29pmIt’s a giant Energizer battery!
Report Post »SunnyinVegas
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:15pmIt looks to me like a plane flying downward
Report Post »DrSique
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:29pmObviously a Klingon Bird of Prey. How do some people always make the leap from “spot” to UFO?
Report Post »monkeyoffmyback
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:15pmDat was Mee- shell’s big a$$ shinin’ in da sun — flyin’ on another vacation. (You know Mammabama bin workin’ in da cottonfields back on the White House plantation.)
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:55pmMy guess…..a new Borg ship ready to attack soon. Hey, IT IS 2012 afterall……..;)
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:36pmI hope they‘ve had their emissions checked recently or they’ll be in deep you-know-what when the EPA finds out!
Report Post »Square Dancer
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:44amIt’s a Klingon Bird of Prey.
Report Post »blair152
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:21pmIt’s NOT A UFO! Aliens wouldn’t be able to travel FTL.
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:02pmto Serve Man……..It’s ………..IT’S A CooKBooK!
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:38pmComin’ for to carry me home.
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:43amIt‘s play’n “sweet home alpha centauri” on the radio
Report Post »Dr. Sax
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:36pmIt’s L. Ron Hubbard and The Clears headin’ on back for a pickup.
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:32pmdid anyone click the link? middle of the page.
Report Post »http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ufo-or-photo-flub-crazy-object-appears-next-to-mercury-in-a-blast-of-solar-wind/
Teabunny
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:44pmcan you say trajectory?
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:28pmAnomally. As much as one would like to meet an intelligent alien being, the distances involved in interstellar travel make it virtually impossible. We will have to settle for left wing extremists as a somewhat suitable substitute.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:14pmNot as impossible as you’ve been led to believe. The speed of light (C) is not an impenetrable barrier. That is a lie perpetuated by Einstein and his supposed “proof” of special relativity. Gravity and speed do not bend space and time. In the vacuum of space, it doesn’t matter if a rocket is moving at 0 or C, without a physical reference frame and drag, you can go as fast as you want. Oh, and our nearest extrasolar star is only 8 years away even if we only traveled at C.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:15pmUnless… as Light increases past C squared it enters HyperSpace… or Unified Fields allows the creation of Portal to Portal travel. Or, as Einstein said: ‘the Quantum does not allow for the understanding of the Whole Universe’!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:32pmThanks SGTB!
Report Post »No ref frame and drag! That is all the info I need to get to Alpha Centuri for the week end!
Now, off to the patent office for me! No longer have to work on anti matter drive. The fuel thing was always a BUGGER!
s0ck_monkey
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:37pmSGTB…the problem with that is, we don’t have a space vehicle that can even approach 186,000 miles per second.
I think, and I‘m not positive because zi haven’t looked it up, but I think our conventional space craft, like the space shuttle, could “cruise” at about 17,000 miles an hour…which is something like 4.7 miles per second, or something like that.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:56pmWhen a star exploded a while back, it was noted with trepidation that the light emanating from the explosion traveled across the nebula much faster than light was supposed to go. Nothing but theories could account for this with one being that light can reach past the original calculated speeds by being propelled by gravitational fields. Much like an electric motor going faster when more voltage is applied. I have my own experiments that show that light can be manipulated with a few simple tools. Liz ?
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:09pmUh-oh! Poor Felix (my cat). Seems as though G-forces involved in accelerating to C is not survivable, at least on my first try.
Report Post »uspsureshot
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:40pmSomething interesting from CERN on this….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8782895/CERN-scientists-break-the-speed-of-light.html
They moved particles FTL. Now if we could fet the inertial dampener on line we could save some cats.
Report Post »keraz
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:26pmKind of looks like a Klingon Bird-of-Prey but that’s just me.
Report Post »Robert999
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:25pmThey’re preparing for their January landing to take Obama home.
Report Post »Run Silent
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:25pmKirk to Enterprise – Beam me up Scotty!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:25pmAt that distance from us, comparing it to the size of Sun next to it, it would have to be many times the Size of the Earth.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:28pmIf it can withstand the heat and radiation of the sun, as well as gravitational forces and glass (if there are any windows) that can block out luminousity that bright, one can assume the race was technologically advanced long before, and had plenty of time to build such a thing.
Report Post »Especially if it’s contructed on and around a larger body, like a small asteriod or small moon.
Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:22amThat’s no moon, it’s a space station!
(I have a baaaad feling about this.)
Report Post »VastRightWingConspirator
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:20amIt’s making the Kessler Run.
Report Post »HuskerDave
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:25pmTo be visible “close to the sun,” that object would have to be larger than the planet Earth. Not bloody likely.
It’s probably a much closer object, perhaps an Earth-launched sattelite, or the reflection of some object near the lens.
Anybody who believes it’s an alien spacecraft is an id10t.
Report Post »s0ck_monkey
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:41pmPeople that believe in other life forms in the universe are no more an idiot than the person that believes in the invisible man in the sky that knows what almost 7 billion people every second of every day.
Not saying that people that believe that are idiots – I’m just saying that if people can believe in one, it’s feasible people can believe in the other.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:27amIt would be foolish to assume that all possible life forms would be on a human scale. Nature is recreated in orders of magnitude.
Perhaps they perceive themselves orbiting a tiny, weak star that emits such a low output of energy that their craft is able to withstand the heat?
Perhaps they are quite large beings, hundreds of times larger than human beings, packed tightly into their cramped little spaceship?
Maybe they’re just here watching the little talking monkeys on the tiny blue planet…? Wondering if we’re tastey…?
Report Post »Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:24pmThe flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus
Report Post »Amica
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:11pmWhat the heck was that E’gar?
Report Post »VastRightWingConspirator
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:22amGive me sugar, in water.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:04amE’gar, your skin‘s hangin’ off your bones.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:21pmNo idea what it is, and really don’t care.
Report Post »styxman65
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:20pmSort of looks like a Klingon space ship getting ready to make a slingshot around the sun to go back in time. Maybe they are going back in time 31/2 years to save America from Obama.
Report Post »itsjustgigi
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:29pmHahaha! God I hope so : )
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:20pmWith all of the lies we have been told the past few years nothing would surprise me. Hope it is a UFO coming to pick up a few in DC to take them home, only thing with that is, they would probably be coming from the wrong direction.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:20pmWanna see some *real* flying aliens? Grab some illegal Mexicans and toss ‘em back over the border fences…
Report Post »chuck_in_st_paul
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:17pmI vote for trebuchets and a prize to best distance x weight. I’d bring the popcorn, some else get the val-u-rite vodka and we’re all set
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:20pmThey are secretly trying to track meteorites coming from behind the sun.
Electric Solar Wind Sail Could Power Future Space Travel In Solar System
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080415162612.htm
anyone remember this?
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:59pmfunny how solindra got huge money…then closed. huh.
Report Post »VastRightWingConspirator
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:24amI thought i saw Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in one of the windows
Report Post »Tinfoilhat
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:19pmI’ve been found out.
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:19pmA piece of lint on the lens.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:16pmIf the UFO… is an Alien Life Form Vehicle… we are Toast!
Report Post »felix
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:16pmno, its a ship from obumblers new Muslim outreach position for NASA !
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:15pmIf like most of our crap it’s built with cheap chinese ****, then it’s probably
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:14pmI hope thay have air conditioning in that thing.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:17pmITSJUSTTIM your ride is here.
Report Post »NumbnutsObama
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:13pmHopefully they take Obama back
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:22pmI don’t think they will be coming from the Heavens to take him back, but I do like your thought.
Report Post »gbo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:48pm@PWATKINS
Report Post »The direction might be a little off, but the temperature is right on.
momrules
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:12pmI believe there are others out there. I‘ve seen the triangle shaped UFO’s traveling in formation. Almost daily there are sightings around the globe if you care to look for them on google or youtube.
Scoff if you choose. I don’t.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:23pmOpen Fire On It Immediately Do Not Let It Get Closer
The South American Indians made the mistake of not destroying the Columbus ships and all the Spaniards. The Indians welcomed the Spaniards and were destroyed by them, it was the end of their world. We must not make the same mistake. OPEN FIRE WITH ALL WEAPONS.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:27pmYou know what, I agree. Whether this is a UFO or not, who knows. However, the phenomenon as a whole is very real. That’s not to say that UFOs are necessarily carrying beings from another planet; however, on a broader sense, this is no hoax. This spans the globe and has no regard for developed or underdeveloped countries, but includes everything from rural Ukraine to communist China to NYC. There are thousands or sightings, but not just sightings–personal interaction. Even a cursory research assessment shows that something unusual is going on that is not being explained or talked about openly. Many reputable men and women have staked their reputations on finding answers to explain their experiences. The ones who mock it are the ones who haven’t seriously looked into it.
Report Post »beckinista
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:00pm@teamarcheson … surely you are being sarcastic … any society advanced enough to GET here wouldn’t be threated by our weaponry … kind like those islanders you referenced trying to sink the Santa Maria with slingshots.
Report Post »geomann
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:15pmI am not convinced Earth has been visited by ET’s, or that this picture is anything but lint on the lense, but I think there are others out there. The statistics are such that it is more likely they exist than not. The statistics that they would find and visit us, however, are more like dropping a grain of sand from an airplane, and having it land on the head of a pin that was stuck in a log floating in the ocean.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:31amUFO that can wistand the heat of the sun: lets fire a nuke at it.
Anyone else see a flaw in this thinking?
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:43amTime to play some Slim Whitman.
Report Post »VastRightWingConspirator
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:31amYeah, all of the videos and pictures of UFO’s and not one of them is clear enough to actually make out anything more than a fuzzy shape. Like a previous post stated, with every phone now including a camera and with all of the huge megapixel cameras out there in the world the sightings have decreased. If you watch a television show about UFO’s they still use fuzzy 35 mm pics and vids. Come to Jesus people, time is growing short. If you don’t believe in something you will fall for anything. Or, you could all go look for sasquatch.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:11pmmust be aliens. there’s simply no other rational explanation.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:20pmwhy what about God, that’s always the easiest mindless explanation
Report Post »Paul
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:23pmIllegal ?
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:11pmCESIUM
Report Post »it must be our alien overlords coming to take revenge. XENU IS COMING TO KILL US ALL!!!!!
Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:34amDid God say there were no aliens? Did I miss that part?
“Where I am going you cannot follow.”
“I am going to prepare a place for you.”
“…Caught up to heaven in a cloud…”
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