Ex-NASA astronaut who nearly collided with two metallic orbs while piloting plane reveals they had no visible means of propulsion
The former NASA astronaut who nearly collided with a pair of metallic orbs while flying his plane remains befuddled by the mysterious objects, revealing to The Post they showed “no visible means of propulsion” when they whizzed by within 20 feet of his plane.“They came right at me,” Dr.Leroy Chiao, who was the commander of Expedition 10, said of the “perfectly smooth” spheres he encountered while piloting his Grumman AA5BTiger in Texas last summer.Chiao detailed the stunning experience in a lengthy interview that shed more light on the remarkably close call and expanded on his theory of orbs’ possible origin — though he’s still searching for answers. The two objects were “10 feet to the left and 10 feet below” Chiao’s plane on a perfectly clear day — allowing the aviation expert a full view of the anomalous crafts that exhibited capabilities that challenged his ability to conventionally explain their existence.“They were about 20 feet away,” Chiao recounted.
“They were about three feet in diameter.One on top of the other.”“I didn’t see any visible means of propulsion, so I don’t know what it would be,” a stumped Chiao told The Post.
“You gotta have a jet engine or a propeller or something.”The pilot emphasized he witnessed the orbs on a sunny, cloudless day with good visibly.“There was nothing around me other than the panhandle of Texas at nine thousand feet on this instrument flight plan and just suddenly these things appeared,” Chiao said, detailing safety measures and instruments pilots use to identify other planes and avoid catastrophic accidents.“The ones I saw were smooth and shiny,” Chiao said.
The great American made this “smooth” observation in contrast to a widely circulated image of an orb released as part of a Pentagon report last year, which depicts an orb being covered in cresting points.Those objects, captured on military radar in controlled airspace in Iraq, were deemed by the Pentagon...