Conspiracy theorists believe photo of Sun taken by European Space Agency observatory is proof of alien life

On Friday, the daily image of the Sun taken by the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was SOHO EIT 284. These are images taken by the agency’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT).

SOHO uses the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope to capture solar images because it is sensitive to four wavelengths of extreme-ultraviolet light, with each wavelength colour-coded to highlight the different temperature of gas in the Sun. By constantly monitoring the Sun’s atmosphere, solar physicists build up a detailed picture of the way the corona behaves.

However, on Sunday, Newscom.au reports that conspiracy theorists cite an ESA photo, which bears a resemblance to SOHO EIT 284, and claim they found a block cube orbiting the Sun which believers in UFO thing is proof of alien life. In a YouTube posting, Myunhauzen74, a UFO believer, claims the tiny white square seen at different places on the video taken on April 17, 2016, is an unidentified flying object.

As other conspiracy theorists had done in the past, the YouTuber is accusing governments of all nations of withholding information from its citizens and placing the pressure on witnesses and media. The poster insists that “People need to know the truth.”

Scott Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, claims he had seen the hovering shape before, although he describes it as black in colour. He says the shape is seen in both 2D and 3D. Waring had previously accused NASA of cutting the feed from the International Space Station after UFO searchers thought they spotted a U-shaped object floating through the sky.

Since the ESA, like NASA, has been constantly bugged with questions if UFOs, aliens and flying saucers are real, the agency, in 2010, produced a video in 2010, titled "Are we alone?" where ESA experts share their opinion.

David Clarcke, UFO consultant of the UK National Archives, said the unclassified document on UFO sightings is made up of only two pieces of paper. He says 90 to 95 percent of the so-called sighting could be explained by aircraft, balloons, fireballs and space junk.

Yvan Blanc, head of GEIPAN a French agency which investigates reports of UFO sightings, agreed with Clarcke that a lot of the sightings have an explanation, although UFO believers would not accept these explanations.

Clarcke recalled an alleged sighting that appears to have been corroborated by radar reports, which turns out only to be planet Venus, while the radar spotting was a church spire in Boston that creates a permanent echo picked up by the radar.

He noted, “When you got people who thinks there’s something odd in the sky, it can’t be explained. Suddenly, other people look up in the sky, seeing things they would have ignored. Everything then is like fitted together as ‘evidence’ that we have been visited by aliens.”