UAP recorded from ISS live stream [Lights on Ground, City or Similar]

[fdisks]

Footage recorded from the International Space Station (ISS) camera system Apr 26 2025
Appears to show very fast moving UAP
Source: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/esrs/hdev/

 

[Mick West]

That camera is looking down at the ground, so it's just showing the light of something on the ground, not actually moving.

Luckily it's a recent capture. The live stream is fiddly to work with for timing, just having the last 10 hours or so right now.

What I did was go live with a clock on screen, then hover over the correct spot on the timeline.

So at (14+7) 21:15:31 UTC, April 27, at -10:08:14, it was about to appear,

That's 11:06:17 UTC. At that time the ISS was over Canada
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...-2.amazonaws.com/1/ISS UFO/20250427_213839.js

It's hard to see what direction it's looking at, but we know that there's a lot of cloud cover, and when daylight arrives the ground and clouds move at the same speed as this light. We also see some other lights.

So, best guess, this is a city, just visible through clouds.

 

[Mick West]

Here's a longer segment of the stream, cued before the first dim set of lights appears

Source: https://youtu.be/4T01GpsjYNo?t=333


The "UFO" light appears briefly 16 second later at 5:51
Source: https://youtu.be/4T01GpsjYNo?t=349
, then a bit after that we see it (and some nearby dim lights) appear.

 

[Mick West]

There are a lot of variables, but syncing up the river in the video, and then working backward, it seems to be the town of Medicine Hat with the earlier dim lights being Lethbridge, both in Alberta, CA.

 

[Trailblazer]

Similar footage is currently being circulated widely on X, for instance...


Source: https://x.com/Cortex_Zero/status/1990995144267423804?s=20




Once again it shows lights on the ground being hidden and then reappearing behind a part of the ISS structure.

The current live stream shows that a large panel is obscuring quite a large portion of the camera view in the upper right:

The point where the lights reappear exactly coincides with the edge of this panel when you overlay the frames:

Some confusion is added by the stationary speckles caused by faulty sensor pixels, which could be mistaken for stars. But clearly they are not, as they are do not move at all as the ISS orbits Earth, and are also visible in the area blocked by the panel.

 

[Ravi]

Similar footage is currently being circulated widely on X, for instance...

Once again it shows lights on the ground being hidden and then reappearing behind a part of the ISS structure.

The current live stream shows that a large panel is obscuring quite a large portion of the camera view in the upper right:




The point where the lights reappear exactly coincides with the edge of this panel when you overlay the frames:



Some confusion is added by the stationary speckles caused by faulty sensor pixels, which could be mistaken for stars. But clearly they are not, as they are do not move at all as the ISS orbits Earth, and are also visible in the area blocked by the panel.

It just messes with my mind that on the ufo reddit this post has gained 6698 upvotes. It never ends.

 

[FatPhil]

Some confusion is added by the stationary speckles caused by faulty sensor pixels, which could be mistaken for stars. But clearly they are not, as they are do not move at all as the ISS orbits Earth, and are also visible in the area blocked by the panel.

Hot pixels should be a fairly simple filter to remove, despite the number, because of their near constancy. And once you've done that, just take the max of the values over the objects' transits. That should provide a fairly clear outline of whatever is obscuring the object as it transits. However, TBH, Roscosmos should dive into their stores and take up a replacement sensor - that one looks shot (and badly placed too, given the vignetting).

EDIT: Even easier - just blend in a small amount of the daylight image of the known obstruction into each frame, and verify that the "cloaking" happens at that obstruction's edges. However, once you've written a hot-pixel removal pipeline, you can use it in potentially hundreds of cases.

 

[Trailblazer]

Also to add, the object blocking a large part of the camera view is apparently the "External Thermal Control System Pump Module (Spare)" which has been there since March 2024.


Source: https://x.com/ISSAboveYou/status/1773805118536008116?s=20


See also this Reddit thread:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ISS/comments/1bu28vh/what_is_this_iss_part_close_up_to_ehdc_camera/

 

[Calter]

Similar footage is currently being circulated widely on X, for instance...


Source: https://x.com/Cortex_Zero/status/1990995144267423804?s=20

Ignoring that it's sort of useless to cut the feed after the object has passed the stream (assuming it's aliens), it's also a stretch to say they cut the feed "shortly after" when it took like a full minute.

Here's the original reddit threat that sparked this thing


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1p0in40/nasa_ends_their_iss_livestream_after_ufo_flyby/


You can see how the OP has to skip like 40 seconds to reach the moment when the stream cuts.

And what's funny is that the same lights showed up on the Sen livestream camera, which has a timer for when signal loss is expected, which completely kills the narrative that the feed was cut "abruptly" as the tweet says.

You can see the lights passing and the signal loss that's coming up in 1 minute 11 seconds. This camera also didn't have anything in front of it so the lights didn't disappear at any point. I only snagged this screenshot, kind of regretting not just recording a full video since you can't go back that far into the stream anymore.

I kinda wish NASA would add a signal loss timer but it would need to be 100% accurate for it to kill conspiracies.

 

[Trailblazer]

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You can see the lights passing and the signal loss that's coming up in 1 minute 11 seconds. This camera also didn't have anything in front of it so the lights didn't disappear at any point. I only snagged this screenshot, kind of regretting not just recording a full video since you can't go back that far into the stream anymore.

I kinda wish NASA would add a signal loss timer but it would need to be 100% accurate for it to kill conspiracies.

Thank you for capturing an accurate time - the post I saw claimed 11.04 CST which it turns out is actually pretty close.

That should allow for an ID of the actual lights. The Historic ISS Tracker shows the location near Gilberton and Bellfield in Queensland:

I can't see an obvious match for this triangle of lights in this area on the Blue Marble Night Lights layer - it looks pretty empty.

This city lights image (large JPEG file) shows more in the way of lights in that part of the world but still no obvious match:

Any ideas? Could potentially be fires or something else transient, as I suspect many of the lights on that second image are.

 

[jarlrmai]

FIRMS imagery might help

 

[Trailblazer]

FIRMS imagery might help

Thanks for the tip. Selecting "past 24 hours" on the viewer there are definitely active fires in exactly the right area:

I don't think the match is clear enough to convince true believers, though.

 

[Mick West]

Putting it into Sitrec does not find anything, but gives an idea of the FOV by matching the speed.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...g at lights over Australia/20251119_190333.js

This triangle kind looks right, but the lack of other light is a problem. But the scale is about right. Put the UFO triangle (of lights/fires on the ground) at about 10 miles across

 

[Trailblazer]

This triangle kind looks right, but the lack of other light is a problem

Perhaps blocked by cloud, with just a clear area allowing those lights to show?

 

[Trailblazer]

Putting it into Sitrec does not find anything, but gives an idea of the FOV by matching the speed.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/ISS Looking at lights over Australia/20251119_190333.js

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This triangle kind looks right, but the lack of other light is a problem. But the scale is about right. Put the UFO triangle (of lights/fires on the ground) at about 10 miles across

If I am looking at the right lights on Blue Marble, that's these:

Comparing to Google Maps, that's the town of Clermont and two large coal mines.

Could it fit? Maybe, if the view was skewed slightly. Not convinced though, and it seems a bit far south for the time in question?