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2023-07-16 17:30:33 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Footage, first shared on Reddit on oct. 22, was captured in 2012. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/xwc665/aliens_exist_in_front_of_everyone_nasa_knows_the/ In 2012, Pulitzer science writer Wolchover explained that this is known as a "prominence", an “area of cooler, denser plasma than the 3.5M°F corona”. The dark object it feeds into is called a filament channel. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-alien-video-show-ufo-drawing-energy-sun-1749619

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• Footage, first shared on Reddit on oct. 22, was captured in 2012. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/xwc665/aliens_exist_in_front_of_everyone_nasa_knows_the/ In 2012, Pulitzer science writer Wolchover explained that this is known as a "prominence", an “area of cooler, denser plasma than the 3.5M°F corona”. The dark object it feeds into is called a filament channel. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-alien-video-show-ufo-drawing-energy-sun-1749619