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Ex-NASA astronaut encounters mysterious flying orbs 9,000 ft. in air (over Texas)
NewsNation ^ | Ashley Soriano

Posted on 12/26/2024 6:42:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Two months before the recent wave of unexplained drones in New Jersey and other parts of the Northeast, a former NASA astronaut encountered mysterious metallic orbs while flying a private plane, he revealed in an interview with NewsNation’s The Hill.

Leroy Chiao, who was a commander on the International Space Station, had a near-collision with unidentified flying objects in the panhandle of Texas in August as he was flying from Colorado in a small airplane.

“I was about 9,000 feet (in the air), and suddenly, out of nowhere, these two big metallic spherical orbs, one on top of the other about three feet in diameter, each went zipping by the left side of my airplane right underneath about 20 feet away,” Chiao said.

The unmanned aircraft was not on the Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control radar, Chiao said.

“I got a good look at them only for a second, and it happened so quick, there wasn’t even a chance to get scared, but it could have been a bad result if they had actually hit me,” he said.

The former astronaut has flown several state space missions before, three of which lasted six months on the ISS. He said it’s “hard to believe” the government doesn’t know what’s going on with the drones that have been flying in New Jersey near U.S. military facilities.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsnationnow.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: aviation; drones; leroychiao; orbs; texas; ufo
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To: dragnet2
Yep. Dunning-Kruger effect
21 posted on 12/26/2024 7:36:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson (paraphrased): "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )
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To: montag813
More ridiculous distractions

Oh, yeah, it shot up fifteen seconds of your very critical investigations into all the other things you can't affect.

It could be that regular news is a distraction from this stuff, have you ever considered that?

22 posted on 12/26/2024 7:38:15 AM PST by GingisK
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To: RoosterRedux

“one on top of the other”
Jeez, now it seems they are coming to earth to mate.
Did he shout, “Hey you two! Get a cloud!”?


23 posted on 12/26/2024 7:45:56 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: GingisK
"It could be that regular news is a distraction from this stuff, have you ever considered that?"

LOL. No.

24 posted on 12/26/2024 7:49:28 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Thomas Jerome

“That just goes to show just how potent today’s marajuana has become.

How ignorant. If you don’t believe it then why click it?


25 posted on 12/26/2024 7:50:25 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: jerod

“Ever since that female astronaut drove from Texas to Florida to kill her lover wearing a pair of ‘depends’ to avoid bathroom breaks... My opinion of astronauts and their accounts of UFO’s has become somewhat diminished .”

NASA Diapers are unisex, there was also several layers of chux covering the seat in case of leakage.

These balls and cubes started showing up after CERN went operational and after SETI Arecibo was taken offline and with its subsequent collapse.

Operation paperclip was far more successful than the guvmint is willing to acknowledge. All this other baloney is diversionary.

Abductions? Manifestations of Satan.


26 posted on 12/26/2024 7:52:36 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well then. Give it some thought.


27 posted on 12/26/2024 7:54:22 AM PST by GingisK
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To: RoosterRedux

NASA staged the moon landings in a studio. Why not stage an alien invasion? As long as it doesn’t impede their mission to make Muslims feel better


28 posted on 12/26/2024 7:57:03 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Clutch Martin

There is a hypothesis out there that the nuclear explosions in the 1940s and other related secret experiments caused “tears/rips” in space/time that allowed “weird” stuff like UFOs to filter into our “reality”.

Likewise as you suggested CERN craziness may have caused other “tears” allowing more unwanted “visitors” to come calling...


29 posted on 12/26/2024 7:58:02 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Clutch Martin

“these two big metallic spherical orbs, one on top of the other about three feet in diameter, each went zipping by the left side of my airplane right underneath about 20 feet away...”

Paging Dr. Sigmund Freud for a sexual deviant consultation... Dr. Sigmund Freud, code pink please pickup the courtesy phone.


30 posted on 12/26/2024 8:00:30 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
NASA staged the moon landings in a studio.

Only intensely ignorant people believe that.

31 posted on 12/26/2024 8:03:58 AM PST by GingisK
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To: mo
"out of nowhere, these two big metallic spherical orbs, one on top of the other about three feet in diameter, each went zipping by the left side of my airplane right underneath about 20 feet away,”

Get back to me with a good, clearcut, non-AI created or “enhanced images”...otherwise its all FUD...

BenWaBalls

32 posted on 12/26/2024 8:41:33 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Listen to me now, think about it later and cry about it some other day.)
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To: GingisK
Only intensely ignorant people believe that.

I used to believe like you. Until I read the evidence, whistleblowers, and the deep fake engines that prove the “moon” landings are studio fabricated “moon” landings. In fact, the last time we sent astronauts 350 miles up in the shuttle they incurred radiation damage. Somehow we have not been able to go past 350 miles since 1972 when we went 238,000 miles and back.? No refueling? No navigation computers? LOL! 😂
33 posted on 12/26/2024 9:04:25 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I love the on board capsule computer mythology—classic Potemkin village stuff:

https://www.aulis.com/pascal.htm


34 posted on 12/26/2024 9:07:38 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I think much of it is some evangullibles are scared to death something they refuse to believe or consider might actually be true or real.


35 posted on 12/26/2024 9:12:07 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RoosterRedux
wasn't us...


36 posted on 12/26/2024 9:34:33 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: dragnet2

In the days when astronauts and fighter pilots had careers to lose or tarnish, I was inclined to suspend some disbelief in their favor. The last couple decades haven’t been so good for getting the truth from our government, so I am much more circumspect.


37 posted on 12/26/2024 9:57:40 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dragnet2

In the days when astronauts and fighter pilots had careers to lose or tarnish, I was inclined to suspend some disbelief in their favor. The last couple decades haven’t been so good for getting the truth from our government, so I am more incredulous.


38 posted on 12/26/2024 9:59:00 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Magnum44

Exactly. You nailed it.


39 posted on 12/26/2024 10:04:13 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
In fact, the last time we sent astronauts 350 miles up in the shuttle they incurred radiation damage. Radiation damage is proportional to the radiation intensity times the time spent in the radiation. The lower Van Allen belts are pretty intense ... where that shuttle went. Apollo went out of earth orbit closer to the center of the Van Allen toroid, thus avoiding the intense inner belt. It passed quickly through the much weaker fringes of the outer belt.

No refueling. On a free ballistic coast none would be necessary since engines are used only for landing or takeoff; and those were all different engines with their own fuel tanks. No refueling is used in the case of bullets either. This point alone clearly indicates that you really don't have any background in ordinary physics, just like the "Internet Gurus" you prefer to believe.

No navigation computers The Apollo ship did indeed have a navigation computer. It was a 15-bit, 36K byte digital computer that was designed by MIT and built by Raytheon. There was also a built-in sextant that took sightings from the sun, earth, and moon. The Apollo ship was data-linked to ground stations, giving access to the big computers at the various space centers.

The problem with the Internet is that people believe what they see there without the ability to utilize other sources or knowledge of provable facts, let along reason things out for themselves.

I know that I will be unable to convince you otherwise because you wish to believe the Apollo landings did not occur. I assume you weren't alive at that time, I was twenty years old and witnessed a lot first hand. If you do actual research, you find that those landings did occur.

From your viewpoint, how do you explain the presence of the laser reflectors on the moon, the TV camera from Surveyor 7 back here on the earth, and the photos of the landing sites made by Japanese and Chinese overflights?

40 posted on 12/26/2024 10:17:51 AM PST by GingisK
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