NASA: SpaceX Starship Had 'Near Miss with a UFO' and 'Astronauts Were Told to Prepare for a Crash'...

by Katie Davis at The U.S. Sun

The rocket had launched from Florida just hours before the encounter, NASA revealed in a nail-biting video.

*The unidentified object was seen in the path of the SpaceX rocketCredit: SpaceX*

*The four astronauts on board were told to put on their pressurized suits in case of a collisionCredit: AFP*

*The SpaceX starship reportedly had a near miss after launching in FloridaCredit: Alamy*

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flying to the International Space Station after blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

“The NASA/SpaceX team was informed of the possible conjunction by US Space Command,” Nasa spokesman Kelly Humphries said.

“The object being tracked is classified as ‘unknown’.

“The possibility of the conjunction came so close to the closest approach time that there wasn’t time to compute and execute a debris avoidance manoeuvre with confidence, so the SpaceX team elected to have the crew don their pressure suits out of an abundance of caution.”

*There was no time to for the crew to perform an avoidance manoeuvreCredit: Alamy*

*The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, left, approaches to the International Space StationCredit: AP*

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen from the International Space Station

The Pentagon had notified Nasa about the potential crash about seven hours after the spacecraft launched, US Space Command spokesman Erin Dick told Futurism.

“After further analysis, the 18^th Space Control Squadron quickly determined there was no conjunction threat, all aboard are safe and the spacecraft was not at risk,” Dick said.

According to Nasa spokesman Humphries, the closest the UFO got to the spacecraft was 45 kilometers away, but “there was no real danger to the crew or the spacecraft.”

The team of four astronauts were propelled into orbit on SpaceX’s third crewed mission at 5.49am ET (10.49EST) from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday – docking at the International Space Station yesterday…