#1Dec 7th, 2011
Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury?
That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught -- shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury.
Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "coronal mass ejection" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over Mercury appears to hit another object of comparable size. "It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked," -- on the footage, which has generated hundreds of thousands of views this week. Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.
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I would guess the oddities are just tiny fluffy seeds of some sort drifting by very close to the lens. Might not be seeds, might be a fragment of feather, a dust mote, a tiny insect, hard to say when they're so far from the camera's focal point, might even be something inside the camera drifting across the sensor. There are all kinds of possibilities that don't involve anything weird.