Mysterious lights spotted drifting past ISS on Nasa live feed spark claims of alien sighting

CONSPIRACY theorists are going wild over a strange group of lights spotted drifting past the International Space Station.

In footage shared widely online on Tuesday, the cluster of dozens of glowing orbs lazily drifts past the orbiting space lab.

The video was captured on a live camera strapped to the station that broadcasts footage of its inky black surroundings 24 hours a day.

It was clipped by Reddit user tyrannosnorlax, who promptly shared it to the social media site – where it has garnered thousands of views.

"Can someone please explain what I just saw on the ISS YouTube live feed?" the curious Redditor asked on the forum.

The footage sparked claims of an alien sighting from a handful of excited commenters.

"Just a whole fleet of aliens...nothing to see here folks," one user joked.

Another said: "Holy f***ing s**t. I have watched a ton of these live feed captures over the years and not one has something like this been seen. Is that really a f***ing fleet of UFOs?!?!?"

Other replies suggested that the UFO could be fragments of space junk, or lights shining from a city on Earth below.

As it turns out, the objects are likely the result of human activity.

According to commenter AlphazeroOnetwo (among several others), they're probably emanating from fleets of squid fishing boats.

The vessels use very bright artificial lights to attract their catch – and they've caught out alien-hunters in the past.

Nasa explained the phenomenon in a blog posted published in 2013 alongside a photo of lights snapped by an astronaut n board the ISS.

"The fisherman are likely luring Todarodes pacificus – a species known as the Japanese flying squid – to the surface with bright xenon bulbs," reads the post.

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[natesuth]

Alien - "Just keep driving, keep the windows up and the doors locked earth is a bad neighborhood"

[leewolf]

If you watch the zoomed in version closely you can see that the stars in background don’t disappear as the cluster goes over meaning the lights are individual from each other but also the starts do get blocked out by the lights just before singular lights go past meaning that the shapes are bigger than just the light. Not saying it’s aliens but just saying whatever it is, it is clearly a cluster of individual things moving together.

[shimmy]

Phones: *have 8k cameras*
Nasa camera: best I can do is 8 pixels

[starlion]

ETs have always been here. The ISS must see lots of such sightings.

[skloading]

Alien fleet: captain lets fly right by this space station to show proof to human race we exists


Humans (see alien fleet ): look at those beautiful fire flies

[thedogecoinmultimillionair]

If people think it’s only us in this universe then u are living in wonderland 😂😂😂

[benjackinoff]

So that's where my Christmas lights went...

[jjun]

Glad to see that this story comes from such a reliable, creditable, source thats been thoroughly researched before being published

[jazzyphae]

And the fact people got the same anomaly on film from the ground in California!!! Absolutely insane

[soupboneolgathecat]

What amazeballs me is, we have telescopes all over the world, & in space that can take clear ass pictures of galaxy's light years away, but we can never get those aliens smiling at us from hundred or so miles!

[lostinpa-dadenduro]

This just in, NASA says it was Chinese lanterns filled with swamp gas. 😂

[ivanking]

Looks like an old space invasion enemy.

[heliogonzalez]

It's not April yet, but we are getting the best prank 😄 of the year by some goofy aliens .

[digitalsketchguy]

If this view is of Earth dark side, then what are those stationary lights while the armada of objects heads East? The ISS is travelling at great speed. Those background lights should be moving too??

[kaw]

1960s doctor who special effects at their greatest

[drnstvns]

But….but…..but how can it be a bunch of squid fishing boats when there is no earth behind them? You can see them passing IN FRONT OF other stars in the background. I’m assuming for them to be fishing boats they’d need to be passing over the earth, more specifically an ocean on earth, for the boats to be on. They’re not. It’s just a full backdrop of stars. So how are these fishing boats?

[mothmagic]

The best proof that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that none of them have bothered to contact us. They soon would if they thought we were any threat to them.

[SkywatcherAnomalous]

It’s a ocean up there teaming with life you just don’t know it yet

[adamparsons-s-s-s]

Look at the top object @ 0:33 - it passes IN FRONT of the ISS if you look.

[moonyshine]

3rd one from the back is probably my pizza the amount of time it's taking