Conspiracy claims NASA deliberately cut live feed of UFO

DETROIT – Space conspiracy theorists are asking if NASA is trying to cover up a recent UFO sighting. 

It all started when NASA's stream from the International Space Station was cut just as an unidentified flying object appears in view.

YouTuber Streetcap1 posted a video (see it below) showing the bright object right before the feed goes down.

"Remember a UFO is an unidentified flying object," he noted in the video description. "This could well be a meteor or the like. What made it interesting was the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop."

NASA spokesman Daniel Huot told CNET that they aren't hiding anything.

"The station regularly passes out of range of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites used to send and receive video, voice and telemetry from the station," Huot told CNET. "For video, whenever we lose signal the cameras will show a blue screen or a preset video slate."

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Many social media users aren't buying that explanation.

This is not the first time NASA has been the subject of a cover-up conspiracy. Here are a few other theories:

The Crash at Roswell

Perhaps the best known UFO conspiracy, the crash at Roswell, New Mexico. As the theory goes, an aircraft crashed in 1947, and was initially reported to be a UFO. Later, the case was re-reported to be a crash of a weather balloon. Many think NASA helped to hide the truth, to keep from wide spread panic.

Collision of Japanese aircraft with UFO

A 747 allegedly collided with a large UFO over the skies of Alaska, but was immediately covered up. The collision was clearly recorded on radar, but a CIA agent reportedly refuted any of the claims.

The Moon Landing

Doubters say the U.S. government and NASA, desperate to beat the Russians into space, faked the moon landings on a secret film set, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin acting out their mission.

Some have speculated that filmmaker Stanley Kubrick helped NASA fake the landing after his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odessey. Some say Kubrick's The Shining was a confession to faking the moon landings.

A 1999 Gallup poll showed that 6 percent of Americans believed the landings were faked and 5 percent were undecided.