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Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury
http://www.space.com/13835-cloaked-mothership-mercury-ufo.html"Natalie Wolchover,
Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Date: 06 December 2011 Time: 11:34 AM ET
On Dec. 1, a camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft recorded a wave of electrically charged material shooting out from the sun and blasting Mercury. Footage of this "coronal mass ejection" (CME), as such events are called, has caught the attention of alien-hunters, who say it has unveiled a giant, "cloaked" spaceship parked near the solar system's innermost planet.
n the footage, one sees a huge spurt of plasma and other solar ejecta washing over Mercury; peculiarly, the material seems to flare up as it hits another nearby object, too. "It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked," YouTube-user siniXster said in his video commentary on the footage, which has quickly spread across the Web."
(more at link; video at link also)
..just thought it was worth noting. The video is..well, *I* said "WOW".
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Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury (Original Post)
lildreamer316
Dec 2011
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formercia
(18,479 posts)1. If that object is a space ship, I would not want to be a member of the crew.
The temperature and radiation levels would be astronomical. I call it crispy to overdone.
FrogStatue
(29 posts)2. If they're intentionally parking next to a star
I'd imagine they'd have suitable countermeasures
or maybe they were blown off course
NEOBuckeye
(2,822 posts)3. Must have very good shields n/t
formercia
(18,479 posts)4. And very good Air Conditioning......