A mysterious orb of light with a sprawling, glowing tail was spotted soaring across the Big Apple skies early Tuesday morning, igniting theories that aliens were preparing to touch down.
Conspiracists were right: the strange object was, in fact, a spaceship — but not the kind with little green men inside.
Something similar was seen in Pennsylvania shortly after the Polaris Dawn launched from the Kennedy Space Station in Florida at 5:23 a.m., carrying NASA scientists and a daredevil civilian who will be the first non-astronauts to perform a spacewalk.
The crew — including second-time space flier, billionaire Jared Isaacman — will spend the next five days in outer space, setting their sights far beyond the International Space Station.
The spaceship can be seen in videos across the East Coast making its way steadily across the sky, seemingly moving horizontally instead of toward the stars.
In New York, some early birds unaware of the SpaceX journey questioned whether it was something other-worldly.
“That’s aliens dawg!” one person wrote.
“There are enough extraterrestrials in NYC if you ask me,” wrote another.
The Polaris Dawn is setting off on a record-breaking journey that, at an altitude of 870 miles, would surpass the Earth-lapping record set during NASA’s Project Gemini in 1966. Only the 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the moon have ventured farther.
The ship will spend 10 hours at the height, filled with extreme radiation and riddled with debris before reducing orbit to about 435 miles.
The spacewalk — often considered one the riskiest stunts while in orbit — is scheduled for Thursday.
The four-person crew is equipped with SpaceX’s latest spacewalking suits given that the entire Dragon capsule would be depressurized during the two-hour spacewalk, exposing the whole crew to the ruthless vacuum of space.
Conspiracists were right: the strange object was, in fact, a spaceship — but not the kind with little green men inside.
Something similar was seen in Pennsylvania shortly after the Polaris Dawn launched from the Kennedy Space Station in Florida at 5:23 a.m., carrying NASA scientists and a daredevil civilian who will be the first non-astronauts to perform a spacewalk.
The crew — including second-time space flier, billionaire Jared Isaacman — will spend the next five days in outer space, setting their sights far beyond the International Space Station.
The spaceship can be seen in videos across the East Coast making its way steadily across the sky, seemingly moving horizontally instead of toward the stars.
In New York, some early birds unaware of the SpaceX journey questioned whether it was something other-worldly.
“That’s aliens dawg!” one person wrote.
“There are enough extraterrestrials in NYC if you ask me,” wrote another.
The Polaris Dawn is setting off on a record-breaking journey that, at an altitude of 870 miles, would surpass the Earth-lapping record set during NASA’s Project Gemini in 1966. Only the 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the moon have ventured farther.
The ship will spend 10 hours at the height, filled with extreme radiation and riddled with debris before reducing orbit to about 435 miles.
The spacewalk — often considered one the riskiest stunts while in orbit — is scheduled for Thursday.
The four-person crew is equipped with SpaceX’s latest spacewalking suits given that the entire Dragon capsule would be depressurized during the two-hour spacewalk, exposing the whole crew to the ruthless vacuum of space.
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00:00A mysterious orb of light with a sprawling, glowing tail was spotted soaring across the
00:11Big Apple skies early Tuesday morning, igniting theories that aliens were preparing to touch
00:15down.
00:17Conspiracists were right, the strange object was, in fact, a spaceship, but not the kind
00:21with little green men inside.
00:24Something similar was seen in Pennsylvania shortly after the Polaris Dawn launched from
00:28the Kennedy Space Station in Florida at 5.23 a.m. m., carrying NASA scientists and a daredevil
00:33civilian who will be the first non-astronauts to perform a spacewalk.
00:37The crew, including second-time space flyer, billionaire Jared Isaacman, will spend the
00:41next five days in outer space, setting their sights far beyond the International Space
00:46Station.
00:47The spaceship can be seen in videos across the East Coast making its way steadily across
00:51the sky, seemingly moving horizontally instead of toward the stars.
00:56In New York, some early birds unaware of the SpaceX journey questioned whether it was something
01:00otherworldly.
01:01That's aliens dog, one person wrote.
01:05There are enough extraterrestrials in NYC if you ask me, wrote another.
01:10The Polaris Dawn is setting off on a record-breaking journey that, at an altitude of 870 miles,
01:16would surpass the earth-lapping record set during NASA's Project Gemini in 1966.
01:21Only the 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the moon have ventured farther.