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The other ISS crew members have not addressed the footage but Vagner has reported that it has been submitted to Roscosmos experts who are reviewing it.
Russian news agency TASS has confirmed through spokesperson Vladimir Ustimenko that the mysterious video is being examined at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“It is too early to make conclusions until our Roscosmos researchers and scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences tell us what they think,” Ustimenko said. “It was decided to hand over those materials to experts, who will tell us what that was in their opinion.”
Talk of outer space life and UFOs has long been considered silly or taboo, a topic for conspiracy theorists and wildcards. In recent years, however, the discussion of aliens and unidentified objects has become more mainstream.
Several factors have pushed this new wave, including a July New York Times article revealing that the U.S. government has funded research into the topic for years – research that is still ongoing — as well as a statement from the Pentagon acknowledging recorded encounters with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP).
On August 14, the Pentagon announced that it had launched a UAP task force to “improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs.” The task force aims to “detect, analyze and catalogue UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”
Alas, the phenomenon captured by Vagner is as yet unexplained.
