A former NASA commander has revealed that while piloting his private plane in Texas last summer he nearly had a collision with two mysterious “metallic, spherical orbs.”
Astronaut Leroy Chiao, who flew in three Space Shuttle flights and was the commander on the Expedition 10, discussed the aerial encounter with two unidentified flying objects in an interview with NewsNation last week.
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“That was in August, I was flying back from Colorado and I just refueled in the panhandle of Texas in my small airplane and I was flying back to Houston,” Chiao told The Hill on NewsNation , adding, “Clear air and I was about 9,000 feet.”
“And suddenly, out of nowhere, these two big, metallic, spherical orbs, one on top of the other about three-feet in diameter each, went zipping by the left side of my airplane, right underneath, about twenty feet away,” Chiao recalled.