Sightings2005

Leroy Chiao reports a line of lights seen during an ISS spacewalk

When: 28 Mar 2005
Sources: 1 public source

Astronaut Leroy Chiao, commander of ISS Expedition 10 NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

ISS commander Leroy Chiao said that during a spacewalk he saw a line of five lights and could not identify them. Amateur analyst James C. Smith later concluded they were most likely lights of a squid-fishing fleet off South America.

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PressHow to crack weird space cases (James Oberg) (opens in a new tab)NBC News / 2005-05-12

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