UFO Shooting A Laser On SOHO LASCO 2! Amazing!!!

Maybe it's the Giant Alien Space Squid

reply to post by nedined


Look, the stoned guy in the vid knows how to make a Lego spaceship!

"Look at the shape of that thing."

The imager for this instrument is designed to pick up the relatively faint light produced by CMEs. Large, solid bodies such as planets and commets reflect much more of the Suns light which the imager cannot compensate for. This causes pixel bleed over to adjacent pixels in the focal plane array which produces the "UFO" shape. It's not a perfect system but perhaps you can design a better focal plane array.

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Yes, that's Frank Zappa - an American Legend.

If it's a UFO, it's a UFO the size of a planet or at least a planetoid, and I'm pretty sure if there was one of those kicking around in our near solar system it would be all over the astronomical news.

That's possibly saturn, with a photo artifact bleeding from it.

reply to post by nedined


the alledged "UFO " is a ` hot pixel ` + the ` bleed from it [ thats why they are always in the horizontal plane - its a function of the sensor architecture ]

the aledged " laser beam " is NOT a " laser beam " i dont know what it is - but " laser beams " do not stop , and nor are they visible [ unless passing through a sufficiently dense medium ]

Seeing as this 'UFO' has a track, it is most likely a high speed particle, a cosmic ray from either the sun or elsewhere, it could also be other stuff, debris, (dust) particles from the spacecraft itself. It may be an unusual enough effect with both a streak and the light saturation at the 'Head' but don't hold me to that.

My favorite parts are the long silences, where his drug-addled brain is drifting in and out of consciousness.