A NASA astronaut who flew on two space shuttle missions has ignited the imagination of UFO enthusiasts after revealing that he once spotted something "alien-like" out in space. The remarkable recollection was made by Leland Melvin by way of an intriguing exchange on Twitter with prolific UFO researcher Scott C. Waring. This past weekend, he came up with the clever idea of positing alien and UFO related questions to the social media accounts of various prominent astronauts.
The tactic proved successful in the case of Melvin, who actually answered his query. Asked if he had ever witnessed a UFO, the astronaut replied that he had not seen one in space or on the ground. However, he did recall an occasion where he "thought I saw something organic/alien like floating out of the payload bay." He went on to write "I called the ground to ask what it could be and it was ice that had broken off of the Freon hoses."
Although that explanation was apparently satisfactory to Melvin as he was up in space, down her eon Earth Waring wasn't quite convinced. Find out how the rest of the exchange unfolded at the Coast to Coast AM website.