With each newfangled year comes a Modern wave of conspiracy theory , and 2015 was definitely no elision .
In the past times , we ’ve had to divvy up with shapes on Mars that slightly resemble a recognizable object , claims that flying saucer are visiting Earth , and * tremor * Moon landing deniers .
This yr , those conspiracy theorists really study it up a pass . We were treated to not only more aliens visiting Earth , but nonextant animal coming back to living and even a unexampled rhythm of end - of - the - human race conspiracies .
Do we expect you to get tempestuous ? No , we anticipate you to sigh . Here ’s our pick of the 10 biggest hoaxes to grace our concealment in 2015 .
10: When NASA cut the live stream from the ISS because aliens
Image via NASA / YouTube
There are a lot of conspiracy theory about NASA . Perhaps one of the most regularly spouted is that they are hiding knowledge of stranger .
And this come to the fore againin January , when a live stream from the ISS was abridge while a UFO was manifestly in eyeshot . Unfortunately for cabal theorists , there is a rational account .
The ISS feed cuts out regularly as the station revolve Earth , and while the speck of grey looked interesting , it was believably just an artefact in the image or something really , really small near the television camera . Sorry about that .
9: Atlas V rocket launch, or UFO? (hint: it’s not a UFO)
On September 2 , a United Launch Alliance ( ULA ) Atlas V rocket launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida . As it made its path to space , it formed some beautiful configuration in the sky owing to the plume it created .
Rather than value this spectacle for what it was , some peopleimmediately suspectedthat this might actually be an alien UFO fly through the sky .
Spoiler : It was n’t .
8: Two moons in the night sky? Nope
Not fancy : Science . ikon via social medium
Ah , this one comes up every twelvemonth in that email chain of mountains forwarded to you from a distant relative or that image divvy up on Facebook .
In Augustthis yr , some people claimed that Mars would be so closemouthed to Earth that it would appear like a 2nd Sun Myung Moon in the sky . Then they partake the infamous image . Argh .
It ’s true , Earth and Mars do get closer to and further from each other – 55 to 400 million kilometers ( 34 to 250 million miles ) . But the difference in the size of Mars in the night sky is not that dramatic to the naked eye .
After all , it ’s still frickin ’ 55 million kilometre away , and is only twice the sizing of the Moon , which is 385,000 kilometer ( 240,000 miles ) off . Why would they appear the same size ? !
7: That U.S. Navy missile that was totally a UFO
This one was somewhat similar to the Atlas V launch we mentioned earlier . In November , amysterious plumeof light was seen off the coast of Southern California .
Although await foreign in origin , it in reality turn out to be a practice launch of an unarmed Trident II ( D5 ) projectile by the U.S. Navy . The test was pre - planned , but perhaps an promulgation beforehand would ’ve helped allay the judgment of those more impressible .
6: The killer asteroid that didn’t really kill us all
Aaahhhhhhhhh - oh hold , we ’re fine . Image via solarseven / Shutterstock
In September , an enormous asteroid hit Earth , destroying all lifetime as we lie with it , and spell the end for humanity .
Oh wait . That never happen ? Hmm . Well , we suppose the confederacy theorists that predicted the world was going to cease due to akiller asteroidwere incorrect .
The speculation sire to be so much that NASA issued a rare statement assure people that no such asteroid was on its way . “ In fact , as substantially as we can tell , no prominent object is likely to strike the Earth any clip in the next several hundred years , ” they say .
5: The weird alien thing that was not an alien (but was still super gross)
Ew . paradigm via Facebook
Remember that thing above ? It was post on Facebookin November , and instantly had people screaming “ alien ! ” in fear , while also finger jolly sick at the sight of it .
It turn out , though , that this thing was probably the remains of a deer fetus that had been part eaten by other beast . At the bottom of the range of a function , you could see two legs , while at the top are the stiff of the head .
Yeah , it ’s passably dreary . Still , at least it ’s not a drained alien . Right ?
4: That blood moon Rapture was pretty bad, eh
prototype via Yanxin Wang / Flickr
Okay , so an asteroid did n’t kill us all in September . But what about the fourth of four “ rakehell moons , ” get it on as a lunar quaternity ?
Some claimed this would signal theend of the worldthrough the 2nd sexual climax of Christ and the Rapture . For those of us who do n’t have clock time to quickly repent , we ’d be stuck on Earth to endure god-awful conditions , etc .
Well , that did n’t exactly happen . But the lunar IV is still interesting . A “ profligate moon , ” good eff as a lunar occultation , is when the Moon passes into Earth ’s trace and appears reddened , as sunshine refracts through the atmosphere . And it ’s passably rare for them to appear so close to each other , with only a handful of tetrads occurring over the last couple of thousand years .
Not quite the end of the worldly concern , though .
3: The Roswell footage that turned out to be a clip from a movie
The Sojourner Truth is out there . Probably . Julien Tromeur/Shutterstock
This one was almost our favorite . In February , UFO enthusiasts eagerly herald they had found secret footage from Roswell that showed an alien autopsy have place .
But there was just one problem . The footage was actually carry from a film star U.K. entertainers Ant and Dec called " Alien Autopsy . " It was so preposterous that even Philip Mantle , a “ UFO expert ” involved with the original hoax Roswell footage , labeled it “ thoroughgoing b * * * * * * * . ”
2: Check out that alien civilization on Ceres
Looks decent . When can we visit ? NASA / JPL - Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
When NASA ’s Dawn ballistic capsule make it at the dwarf planet Ceres in March this year , it spot something enthralling on the control surface : a twosome of passing bright spots . At the fourth dimension , we could n’t explain what they were . Now , we’repretty surethey are common salt flats , with a morsel of piss ice in there too .
Or , maybe not . One group of very get wind , smart , and respected individual suggested these might becity lightsfrom an alien civilization survive on Ceres . Others think they might be “ headlights ” on what is not a dwarf planet , but a huge foreign starship .
Your move , NASA .
1: Remember when that extinct Pterosaur flew over Idaho?
Gasp . Rumble Viral / YouTube
“ Oh my God ! There ’s an extinct flight reptile in the skies over Idaho ” said no one , we hope , when they saw this easy - to - spotCGI hoax videoof a pterosaur beat its wing over the northwestern U.S. state .
Pterosaurs lived around the time of the dinosaur , and have been extinct since that pesky asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago . The chances of one hiding out all that time and returning for a abbreviated jaunt in our skies ? Uh , pretty slim . A+ for effort , though , which is why we had to pick this as our favorite .
But hey , that polish up up our list of some of the most ridiculous taradiddle of the yr . We ’re wait forrard to more nonsense in 2016 , and recall , if it sounds too good / weird to be true , it credibly is .
