A former NASA astronaut has come forward to reveal that he personally witnessed ‘two metallic spherical orbs‘ whizz by his plane this August while flying above Texas.
Leroy Chiao, who served as the commander of Expedition 10 to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2004 and 2005, was 9,000 feet in the air when objects ‘zipped’ on the left side of his airplane.
He said one flew on top of the other and each was about three feet in diameter.
The former NASA astronaut estimates that the orbs were only ‘about 20 feet away.’
‘It could’ve been a bad result, if they had actually hit me,’ Chiao said. ‘It happened so quick, there wasn’t even a chance to get scared.’
The NASA veteran, now an engineering consultant and entrepreneur, told NewsNation that the strange metallic orbs appeared to evade detection.
‘It wasn’t on radar,’ he noted, ‘Air traffic control certainly didn’t alert me.
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