NASA UFO Files Explained in 60s: It’s Cosmic Rays ⚡👁️

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]pixel from that image, and then you average the rest.

[00:00:02]>> [music] >> Or take the median of the rest. And this way you systematically remove the effects of cosmic rays on your data.

[00:00:10]This is routine. We do this all the time. Every observation >> [music] >> at a telescope has a built-in system to free the image of cosmic rays that have hit it. The particles that hit my detector, those are much lower energy particles after the original particle got all divided up and scattered and cascaded to become many, many more lower energy particles by the time it's the ground. When you've left Earth, there's no atmosphere to provide such protection for you. We would learn among the Apollo astronauts, who were the first [music] astronauts to leave Earth for a destination.

[00:00:51]They would see flashes of light. They would just see it with their eyes open and with their