[CRUNCH] 10 CREEPIEST Things Astronauts Have Seen from Space
Astronauts see some crazy things that most of us can’t even begin to comprehend. Welcome
to CRUNCH, and in this video, we’ll be going
through 10 of the CREEPIEST Things Astronauts have seen from space:
10. Mysterious Green Orb When Maj. Gordon Cooper took a cruise around
the Earth that consisted of 22 orbits, he noticed
a lot of amazing things and wrote descriptive accounts of the many things he saw. He was
one of the first Americans to ever go into space
and was one of the original 7 astronauts of Project
Mercury, which was the first manned space program in American history. This was during
a time where even astronauts didn’t know exactly
everything about space, but this one object that
Gordon Cooper claims to have seen was certainly something that piqued everyone’s interest.
He said he saw a mysterious green, glowing object that was slowly approaching the spaceship
he was in. He wasn’t the only one to have noticed the object, as a tracking station
in Australia even picked up that there was some sort of
object approaching the ship. Gordon said “I believe
that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other
planets... Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss
UFOs... I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days
of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation,
generally from east to west over Europe.”
9. An Exploding UFO? So now that even astronauts have been having
UFO encounters, it really makes all the UFO hunters on earth seem not as crazy. Overall,
there have been dozens of UFO sightings that were reported from outer space itself, and
even NASA has taken notice of some of these strange objects. One of the craziest UFO encounters
would have to be the one that was seen by Vladimir Kovalyonok during a Soviet space
mission in 1981. Vladimir Kovalyonok was on manning duty at the Salyut VI space station
when he said that he saw a strange orbiting object
in a porthole that was about the size of a finger. In his exact words, he said “It
was hard to determine the size and the speed of an object
in space. That is why I can not say exactly, which
size it actually was. My partner Viktor Savinykh prepared to take a picture of it, but the
UFO suddenly exploded. Only clouds of smoke were
left. The object split into two interconnected pieces. It was reminiscent of a dumbbell.
I reported about it to the Mission Control immediately.”.
8. Space Eel Story Musgraves is one of the most prolific
astronauts in history. He is one of the only astronauts to have flown on six different
spaceflights, and the only astronaut to have ever flown
on all five of the space shuttles. He also has 5 different degrees related to space,
more than any other man on earth, so clearly when someone
like Story Musgraves notices something is off,
something is off. In this case, Musgraves saw, what he described as, an eel-like creature
that was just swimming about in space. He said
that he didn’t just see this strange creature once but
multiple times, and it was a white creature that resembled the eels we have on Earth.
He said that the creature even had its own propulsion
technique, like many of the creatures here on
earth do. To this day we don’t know whether he was just hallucinating, if he saw some
space junk, or if he actually saw a creature in
space. 7. Global Inequality
We all know how bad of a problem global wealth and power inequality is, but did you know
that the problem is so extreme that you can literally
see it from space? It might sound ridiculous at
first, but one of the most amazing things about the view of the earth from space is
that when it’s night, you can actually see all the cities
on earth shining from space due to the number of lights
that are in major population centers. But this light show also exposes another side
to earth, and that is how unequal the distribution of electricity
is on earth. You’ll notice that Europe, while not
being as dense as parts of India or Africa, shines the brightest out of all the continents,
that’s because Europe is the richest continent on
average, and they have access to electricity in every
major city and village. When you look at a nighttime space view of Africa, you’ll notice
only faint lights in some of the largest population centers,
while most of the cities are dark. 6. Zooming Lights
While we’re on the topic of lights being seen in space. Let’s talk about the lights
that were actually from space as well. Leroy Chiao is
a former commander at the international space station. He has spent a total of 229 days
in space and has seen a lot of weird things during his
time, but the creepiest thing he saw would have to be when he was on a spacewalk, he
saw these straight linear lights zoom in right
past him. While some people tried to brush it off as
lights from earth reflecting on him, that wasn’t possible as he was well over 230
miles away from the earth when he saw those strange lights.
When talking about the incident, he said "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." 5. Fire Without A Flame
Now on to not just one specific sighting in space, but a unique phenomenon that occurs
there. From around 2009 to 2012, astronauts were
carrying out a number of experiments during their
respective missions in space, and one of those experiments consisted of lighting things on
fire in order to study how fire really behaves
in outer space. Some of the discoveries they made
included that fire burns at a much lower temperature in space, but the craziest thing they saw
was probably that there can be an actual fire without any flames. Froman Williams said "Thus
far, the most surprising thing we've observed is continued apparent burning of heptane droplets
after flame extinction under certain conditions. Currently, this is entirely unexplained."
4. Dazzling Light Shows
When you go into space, you should probably expect to see some sort of amazing
phenomenon, but probably no one expected to see an actual performance. When astronauts
were on the Apollo 11 mission, they saw unique, colorful flashes of light and the strange
part is, they even saw it when their eyes were closed!
Scientists were later able to conclude that what
they saw were cosmic rays, which is something we can’t typically see on Earth because
our atmosphere tends to absorb any cosmic rays,
preventing us from seeing them. 3. UFO Parking Lot
Neil Armstrong is the single most well known astronaut to have ever lived, there has been
a lot of media attention on his space experiences
but the most unique experience he witnessed, according to certain conspiracy theorists,
would have to be when he allegedly sent a secret
message to NASA saying "These babies were huge, sir! Enormous! Oh, God! You wouldn't
believe it! ... I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out here ... lined up
on the far side of the crater's edge! ... They're on the
moon watching us!" He never commented on this supposed
parking lot ever again, even when the media picked up this alleged encounter. Do you think
this actually happened? Let us know in the comments
below! 2. A Knock
Imagine you’re in the middle of space, with nothing around you for thousands of kilometers,
and suddenly, you hear a knock. That’s what
happened with Yang Liwei, the first astronaut to be
sent into space by China, when he said that during his solo mission, he heard someone
knocking on the outside of his spacecraft, but when he took a look, he found nothing.
Chinese astronauts have been quite open about their
mysterious encounters in space when compared to
their American counterparts, and who knows what this strange knock could’ve been.
1. Something Unexplainable And finally, the creepiest thing an astronaut
ever saw in space was something he can’t even
describe! James McDivitt, a former astronaut who has been in numerous space missions in
the past, said that during a 1965 mission to space,
he saw something floating in space. He couldn’t even begin to explain what it was, but described
it as “a geometrical shape similar to a beer can
or a pop can, and with a little thing like maybe like a pencil or something sticking
out of it. That relative size, dimensionally. It was all white.”
This was one of the first UFO sightings to ever be
reported from space, although McDivitt later denied it was actually a UFO.
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