A Russian cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has shared footage of what he describes as "space guests," or UFOs, that made an unexpected appearance in a time-lapse video he captured of the southern lights.
On Wednesday, Ivan Vagner posted a one-minute video on Twitter showing the "peak" of the Aurora Australis as it moved between the Antarctic and Australia.
In the video, you will see something else, not only the aurora," he teased in the post
"5 objects appear flying alongside with the same distance. What do you think those are? Meteors, satellites or...?" he wrote.
Those five bright objects appear in a straight line just above the curve of the Earth in the night sky for what seems like only a brief instant in the time-lapse video; however, they were actually visible for 52 seconds, Vagner explained.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Space guests, or how I filmed the new time-lapse.<br><br>The peak of aurora borealis when passing over the Antarctic in Australia’s longitude, meaning in between them. However, in the video, you will see something else, not only the aurora. <a href="https://t.co/Hdiej7IbLU">pic.twitter.com/Hdiej7IbLU</a></p>— Ivan Vagner (@ivan_mks63) <a href="https://twitter.com/ivan_mks63/status/1296030323806003205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
