Chris Hadfield , former Canadian spaceman and proud moustache - wearer , has latterly weighed in on therenewed public interestin “ unnamed aerial phenomena ” sightings in arecent CBC interview .

In his horizon , we earthman certainly involve to keep our center to the sky wait for any possible signs of extraterrestrial life . However , if you think that flashing light you saw one night was an exotic spacecraft , you ’re dopey .

" Obviously , I ’ve reckon countless things in the sky that I do n’t interpret , " Hadfield toldCBC .

Indeed , Hadfield has had a front - rowing bum to the whizz   better   than most the great unwashed : during his many spaceflights , he was   commander of the International Space Station and the first Canadian to walk in quad .

" But to see something in the sky that you do n’t understand and then to immediately reason that it ’s well-informed life from another solar organisation is the height of stupidity and want of logic . "

" Definitively up to this point , we have found no evidence of life anywhere except Earth , and we ’re look , " explained Hadfield .

Once considered the land of nut case and cabal theorists , UFO sighting have been given a renewed legitimacy in late years thanks to a identification number of in high spirits - visibility sighting . Much of this hype can be traced back to a 2017 clause inthe New York Timesreporting on a series of leaked videos filmed off the coast of the US that showunusually determine , tight - incite aircraft .

One of the videos ( above ) – called FLIR – show up an incident in November 2004 when two Navy F / A-18F Super Hornet fighter spurt start chasing an unknown flight object off the coast of southern California . The video has since obtained the sobriquet “ Tic Tac , ” as it boast an oblong - shaped object appear to instantaneously alter counseling in the sky . Theofficial governance reporton the incident aver the object fall " ‘ very rapidly ’ from approximately 60,000 feet [ 18,300 metre ] down to some 50 feet [ 15 meters ] in a matter of seconds . ”

The video were given a sense of authenticity because they were report by well - respectedUS military pilots . Furthermore , the Pentagon laterconfirmed the videoswere rattling andtaken by Navy personnel . Theyeven die to officiallyrelease them to the public .

The mental object of the video , however , is still up for conjecture and there ’s no unmediated evidence that this show an alien . look to force out the video , some have   said it ’s possible the UFO   was only a close , ripe military special K from another nation . Whatever your stance , it ’s hard to deny the footage   does n’t show something deeply astonishing .

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