Donut-shaped UFO Sighting Successfully Captured By Swiss Photographer

JAKARTA – A UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sighting was captured by a photographer from Zurich, Switzerland. Then he uploaded the screenshot on the social media platform Twitter on Monday, November 8, 2021.

Twitter account with handle @Eavix1Eavix uploaded a UFO sighting shaped like a donut. However, the post has been deleted by the owner. However, the donut-shaped UFO sighting went viral on social media the day the photographer uploaded it.

Launching Live Science, the flying object looks like a spaceship consisting of several concentric rings of bright blue. The photographer suspected what he saw was SpaceX's Endeavor capsule, which was scheduled to return to Earth that evening with four astronauts who had just completed a 200-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS).

British tabloid site The Daily Mail even included the terrifying photos in its Endeavor sightings the following day. Before suspecting it to be the mysterious Donut UFO, other opinions expressed that the landing site for the Endeavor capsule which began to be seen on Earth at 10:30 EDT at night was on another part of the world. The landing site is in the Gulf of Mexico, 8,000 km from Zurich. So it is impossible if the capsule is visible in the Swiss sky.

An amateur satellite observer and researcher from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Marco Langbroek explained that the capsule gliding from the sky could only be seen by residents of Louisiana, Alabama, and a number of other Gulf countries. On the other hand, Langbroek explained that it is almost impossible for Swiss citizens to see the entry of a spacecraft to Earth.

"Any trajectory (Endeavour) in Switzerland prior to landing that night will be completely in Earth's shadow, i.e. it will not be illuminated by the sun and therefore invisible," Langbroek said.

“The re-entry of the capsule itself passes through Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, and will not be visible from Switzerland. Deorbit burn, before re-entry was above the Indian Ocean, so it is not also visible from Switzerland," he added.

Langbroek then explained another possibility of the UFO sightings captured by the Swiss photographer. He assessed that the appearance of the flying object in the Swiss sky was probably not actually flying. According to him, it could be a random photo of a distant star.

"I'm pretty sure that the 'UFO donut' in the Swiss photo is an out-of-focus image of a bright star," Langbroek said.

In the image captured by the photographer, it shows a zigzag trail of light behind the object. This proves that the UFO is indeed moving.

An astrophysicist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, Jonathan McDowell, explained that there are other possibilities regarding the 'donut UFO'. It's likely the upper part of the rocket used to propel the plane into orbit and then re-enter the atmosphere and catch fire.

He argues that without the exact time frame in the photos, it would be difficult to associate the mysterious light with any object in the sky that night. Until now, the appearance of the donut-shaped UFO is a fairly mysterious sighting.