UFO image published by Straits Times 17/1/2003; Original image by Soho

Introduction

IS THIS an image of a spacecraft flown by aliens?  Yes, say UFO investigators.  No, says Nasa, the image has been triggered by a camera fault.  The picture comes from the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft located millions of kilometres from Earth to observe the sun.  The European Space Agency's Soho is part of a larger effort known as the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics science initiative.

In this article, we show two typical views over this mystery - the believers who support the existence of UFO, and the debunkers explain how such image was faked by technology.  Here is another article published on Wan Bao Newspaper (in Chinese).


Space centre to screen proof of UFOs

Images claiming to be proof of alien UFOs will be shown to members of the public at the National Space Centre later this month. Hundreds of the objects were captured on film by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho), a spacecraft a million miles from Earth observing the sun. The glowing, saucer-shaped "craft" were apparently moving in a way that suggested intelligent control. Nasa originally dismissed the images as being the result of a camera fault, and will not now comment on them. But UFO investigators are convinced they are spacecraft flown by aliens. Mike Murray, 54, a founder of the UFO group Euroseti, which is holding the exhibition at the Space Centre in Leicester, said: (read more)

..."Some of the pictures are real crackers. They are the archetypal flying saucers - disc-shaped objects with some kind of glow around them. Many have a pulsing light and leave a trail behind them."

Mr Murray, who has been interested in UFOs for 30 years, obtained the images from a Spanish businessmen who picked them up from Soho using a giant satellite dish at his home outside Barcelona. Mr Murray said: "The first thing we did when we got the images was to speak to Nasa, who said it was a camera fault. But by enhancing the images we proved this wasn't the case."

He said Nasa then suggested the objects could be asteroids or comets - but this did not explain the way they appeared to move independently and make turns.

The images will be screened at the National Space Centre on the evenings of January 24, 25 and 26.


U.F.O. prowling our Solar System

A series of images which it is claimed prove the existence of aliens is going on show at Leicester's National Space Centre. They are said to have been taken by a Nasa spaceship which is 1,000,000 miles from Earth. Mike Murray, a UFO enthusiast who is putting on the show warned people not to contact the centre as it has been inundated with interest. Hundreds of the objects were captured on film by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho), a spacecraft 1,000,000 miles from Earth observing the sun. The glowing, saucer-shaped "craft" were said to be moving in a way that suggested intelligent control. (read more to see all exclusive photos)

Nasa originally dismissed the images as being the result of a camera fault or as comets or asteroids and is now refusing to comment on them.

Alien crafts circling our orbit

An UFO expert from Winterbourne, near Bristol, says the latest flying saucer pictures captured by a NASA satellite prove beyond doubt that there are aliens in space. Denis Plunkett, aged 71, one of the longest-serving members of the British Flying Saucer Bureau, is delighted the pictures are being made public. The pictures show the UFOs failed to navigate a straight course and observers claim it was being steered by some sort of intelligent life form. The NASA satellite is stationed in space one million miles from Earth with its camera trained on the sun. It has beamed back hundreds of images of different varieties of UFO travelling along what could be an 'alien superhighway'. Mr Plunkett said... (read more)

..."People regularly phone me with details of sightings and these pictures will hopefully convert a few more people.

"More people than ever believe in UFOs - 50 years ago only one in ten people believed, but a survey in 1997 found eight in ten people believed there's something out there."

The NASA images are due to be made public at the National Space Centre in Leicester by Mike Murray, the owner of an electronics company in Manchester.

They were shown to him by a Spanish businessman who picked them up from a huge satellite at his home near Barcelona. Mr Murray said: "When we asked NASA about it, they originally said it might be a fault on the camera, but by digitally enhancing the images, we proved this wasn't the case.

"NASA then told us it could be asteroids or comets, but when we pointed out that the objects appeared to move independently and make turns, they stopped answering our questions." Graham Birdsall, editor of UFO Magazine , said:

"The images are irrefutable in that they are from official satellites owned by NASA. "They resemble the kind ofspace craft we used to see in sci-fi films like Star Trek ."I'm excited at the prospect of seeing authenticated images coming into the public domain that have taxed a considerable number of people at NASA."

Mr Murray said: "The very fact these crafts appear to be the same shape as other UFOs spotted in our stratosphere is very exciting." Mr Plunkett began to think we were not alone in the universe when his cousin disappeared on a flight to the El Salto observatory in Chile in 1952.

Despite sending a message to the control tower saying they would land in four minutes, the plane never reached its destination. Authorities carried out a search covering a 250-mile radius but found nothing.

Mr Plunkett said: "The last message my cousin had sent to the control tower was STENDEC, which the radio operator didn't understand and asked him to repeat himself. "The same message was repeated." Mr Plunkett joined the Bristol-based British Flying Saucer Bureau which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

He said: "We look at reports and have the usual equipment which we follow activities with. "Occasionally we get something come up in Bristol, and we have found that UFOs like water.

"When they are chased they have often been reported to head towards the sea. "There have been lots of strange sightings over the Severn."

Scientists show how to make a UFO

The astronomers in charge of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory issued an unusual response Friday to widely reported claims that pictures from the sun-observing satellite contained evidence of alien spacecraft: In addition to scoffing at the claims, they showed how to turn SOHO imagery into UFO snapshots. The How To Guide came in the wake of claims from a British-based group called Euroseti that hundreds of UFO-like images had been gleaned from NASA satellite imagery. The claims were picked up by newspapers in Britain and Australia over the past week or two, linking the photographs to SOHO, a $1 billion U.S.-European satellite that observes the sun...(read more)

...from a vantage point 1 million miles from Earth.

The Perth Times headlined its article “‘UFO’ on NASA camera,” while the Evening News of Scotland worked the claims into an account that declared “We’re Doomed.”

“The images are irrefutable in that they are from official satellites owned by NASA. They resemble the kind of spacecraft we used to see in sci-fi films like Star Trek,” Graham Birdsall, editor of UFO magazine, was quoted as saying in the Perth newspaper.

Brekke said he was aware of the claims and thought they were “quite funny.” By Friday, Brekke and his colleagues had put together a more elaborate response.

“Ever since launch, there’s been a number of people who’ve projected their fantasies onto the SOHO images, seeing flying saucers and other esoteric objects,” he noted. “Mostly, we’re just amused by the unfounded claims, but in recent days, we’ve been receiving so many questions and claims (in news stories) that we’d like to set the record straight: We’ve never seen anything that even suggests that there are UFOs ‘out there.’ That is, to our (trained) eyes.”

Brekke pointed to the new how-to UFO guide on NASA’s SOHO Web site.

The SOHO team’s technique starts out with a garden-variety image of the sun from the spacecraft’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. Such images often include tiny marks made by cosmic rays hitting the instrument’s detector. In the SOHO team’s example, one of those marks is enlarged several times, smoothed into a saucerlike shape, then filtered to give it a metallic glint.

The guide said the UFO recipe also could start out with the speck-sized shapes of planets visible on some SOHO imagery, or with marks left because of detector defects, software glitches or space debris.

“It should be noted that we do see objects moving in SOHO images,” the guide said. “Over 500 comets have been discovered in SOHO images, most by amateurs using LASCO data which have been downloaded from the Web. That’s more comets than from any other observatory, either from the ground or in space. People are looking for moving objects in these pictures all the time, and are highly motivated to find them. None of them have ever turned out to be anything other than comets.”

Over the years, NASA has taken various approaches to dealing with conspiracy and UFO claims. In a fact sheet, the space agency notes that no governmental agencies are currently investigating claims relating to alien spacecraft or civilizations. NASA has also disputed repeated claims that the Apollo moon landings were nothing more than Cold War hoaxes, although it recently backed away from commissioning a high-profile refutation of such claims for fear that the effort would stir up more controversy than it was worth.

Brekke and his colleagues acknowledged that hard-core UFO researchers probably wouldn’t accept their detailed explanation for the saucer imagery — but they hoped the new how-to guide would “provide some information for the curious who want to investigate the claims on their own.”



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Reference (Contributed by SPI Agent Mathwizard)

Hi. It seems that SOHO has captured many anomalous images all these years. Example for anomalous photos that seems to depict UFOs can be found at

http://www.enterprisemission.com/soho.htm

http://www.starshipgamma.com/soho/index.htm (this is a archive of many anomalies images, some show UFOs shooting some sort of light, others look like a forming portals.)

http://sohogallery.50megs.com (some photos cannot load)

There's another photo that shows what looks like a portal forming near the sun at http://skywatch.iwarp.com/sun/

UFOs are very much active in outer space. Many of our astronauts have seen these anomalous objects (http://www.gpgwebdesign.com.au/astronauts.htm) But I am not sure what those objects photographed by SOHO really are....it may be too soon to jump to conclusion that they are alien ships. So they are truly UFOs ( Unidentified Flying Objects: Maybe you can stress this on the website since many people thought that UFO="alien space ship". In other words, UFOs are real phenomena, whereas alien ship remains a hypothesis) at the moment.

But I don t trust NASA. There seems to be many conspiracies involving the agency (and most NASA personnel themselves don t even know about it) For example: the strange connection with Mars, lunar missions and Egyptian occult:

http://www.enterprisemission.com/isis.htm (NASA Egyptian ritual and symbolism)

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hubble.htm (Hubble s Images of the moon, previously claimed to be impossible by NASA, is exposed)

http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/citystars/ ( scientific analysis of NASA mission correspondence to positions of certain constellations that represent Egyptian deities )

http://www.enterprisemission.com/ken2a.html ( NASA connection to Mars and Egyptian occult overview )

http://www.enterprisemission.com/Path-sphinx.htm

http://www.enterprisemission.com/physics.html