NASA believes that a small meteorite collided with a spacecraft monitoring the lunar surface, causing it to capture unusual images.

The US Space Agency (NASA) admitted that one of its spacecraft was hit by an unidentified flying object (UFO) with the speed of a bullet, Sun reported on May 29.

Accordingly, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which specializes in monitoring the lunar surface, was hit by a small object in October 2014, but luckily it can still operate until now.

The collision caused LRO’s camera to malfunction, creating images with jagged jagged patterns. These photos led many UFO hunters to claim that LRO had recorded traces of an alien base on the Moon.

However, Mark Robinson, a professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at the University of Arizona, USA, believes that a very small meteorite hit LRO, hitting the camera, causing it to capture unusual images of the Earth. surface of the Moon, causing a stir among UFO hunters.

“This meteorite moves much faster than a flying bullet. In this case, LRO did not avoid the meteorite, but was not affected much after the collision,” Robinson said.

NASA also revealed the reason for the delay in releasing details about the collision.

“Since the collision did not cause any technical problems for the operating condition and safety of the device, the research team has only now announced this event as an interesting example of how technical data can be used in ways that were previously unforeseen, to understand what is happening to a spacecraft nearly 380,000 km from Earth,” said John Keller, LRO project scientist at the Flight Center. NASA’s Goddard universe, explained.

However, this explanation certainly does not satisfy UFO hunters who always believe that there is a secret alien base hidden on the Moon.