NASA Finally admit UFO crashed into Orbiter

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NASA has admitted a UFO was to blame for a very unusual glitch in a spacecraft which monitors the lunar surface for the space agency.

NASA has admitted that one of its spaceships was struck by an unidentified flying object travelling as fast as a speeding bullet.
In October 2014, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was hit by a tiny object — but lived to tell the tale.
The Sun reports the collision caused a strange glitch in the LRO’s cameras (which you can see in the picture below), causing it to produce images showing “jagged patterns”.
Alien hunters spend hours pouring over the probe’s footage of the lunar surface and even claimed it has recorded evidence of alien bases on the moon.
However, NASA thinks “a small natural meteorite” was to blame for the collision.
Mark Robinson, a professor at Arizona State University’s school of earth and space exploration, said: “LRO was struck and survived to keep exploring the moon.”
He suggested a tiny meteorite hit the space probe, knocking its cameras so they produced a “wild and jittery” image of the moon’s surface.
“The meteoroid was travelling much faster than a speeding bullet,” Robinson added.
“In this case, LROC did not dodge a speeding bullet, but rather survived a speeding bullet!”

So they finally admit that a UFO was involved, but it wasn't really a UFO - clever!

I believe ufologists would label this as disinformation.

It does show how dangerous space really is...

Astronauts literally do risk their lives everytime they go for a space walk

What's interesting though is the trajectory of this meteorite might not actually follow gravitational orbit and given the speed it was coming and lack of anticipation might make the prospect of accidents quite high increasing safety concerns for future lunar/Mars missions

Well I was trying to be funny, but yeah. I'm kinda surprised this is the first time anything got nailed with all the little rocks whizzing around out there. Definitely an occupational hazard.

I get a kick out of that "speeding bullet" description. Whether traveling "as fast as a bullet" or "much faster than a bullet" -- conflicting reports there -- and whether dodging said fast-moving bullet or surviving it, how does one determine a bullet was a "speeding bullet"...whatever that might mean?! Or, was Superman possibly somehow involved?!

LRO can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Well "UFO" simply means "unidentified flying object". The object was in motion, and its unidentified. Ergo its an "unidentified flying object". So UFO does not necessarily equal "flying saucer". Its funny: Brits pronounce it "You-Foh", while Americans say "you-eff-oh".

Space is full of natural debris in motion. And near earth there is both man made and and natural shaprnel in orbit around the earth.

A rifle bullet moves half a mile a second, or about 1800 mph.

Objects orbiting a few hundred miles above the earth are going to be going close to 18000 mph. So if a natural micrometeorite or a made made ball bearing hits you near earth it would have to be going ten times the speed of a rifle bullet.

The moon is farther out, and only has to go a 1000 mph to stay in orbit around the earth. But the earth and moon together have to move almost 40 thousand miles an hour relative to the Sun to stay in orbit around the Sun. So any object that hits you when you're near the moon would probably also be moving that fast. So "fast as a bullet" is likely a huge understatement.

Okay, and now that we have "much faster than a...bullet" as mentioned in the article, what would the adjective "speeding" add to the description of the bullet? If the UFO contrast was with a resting bullet, they likely would have just said "small floating rock".

If they are sure it was a meteorite then wouldn't that make it not a UFO? and an IFO instead ...or are they not sure if it was a meteorite or not.

I Don’t think aliens have visited earth theres was documentary on tv about how earth is in habitable zone in the milkaway galaxy and theres no chance of aliens existent. it said we humans are here by chance. right condition for life to existent.

Not sure what you're asking.

An article written for a lay audience would say "speeding like a bullet" to convey the image.

My point was that everything in space in motion, and that all motion is relative, and then even being "stationary" means to move at high speed to maintain a "stationary" position in an orbital system around another body. And that the speeds involved are beyond that of a rifle bullet. And that such speeds would create a huge amount of kinetic energy upon any impact. So even if one body is a stray astronaut's glove lost years ago, or a natural micrometeor the size of a pebble it could cause damage equivalent to a stationary stick of dynamite going off on the hood of the car (or NASA vehicle) hit.

But maybe the NASA vehicle sideswiped a parked alien flying saucer in the high parking lot above the moon. And maybe NASA neglected to leave a note with NASA's contact, and insurance information, under the alien flying saucer's windshield wipers.

So now NASA's dad is going to be really angry at NASA, and take away NASA's car keys!

But the mundane explanation (that it collided with either a natural space pebble, or a piece of NASA's own old space junk) is more likely.

Gotta wonder how long till an astronaut is struck by a meteorite flying at bullet speed.

You just hit it: "'speeding bullet' to convey the image." It just struck me funny to hear that particular image and then to hear it four times in such a brief article, but maybe part of that was to help make up for this:

Yes, I have often wondered about that. Space is vast and the ocean is big, but it takes only one coral head to sink a ship.

It's definitely on the radar (pardon the pun)
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