Footage has emerged showing a suspected UFO ‘zig-zagging’ above a nuclear power plant.
The mysterious bright lights were spotted hovering repeatedly above the largest nuclear station in India, sparking concerns over its safety.
Indian police investigator Syed Abdul Kader filmed a bright speck of light making darting movements in the night sky above the plant.
He fears the flying object is an extraterrestrial visitor, and he is not the only one concerned over it.
For years, India’s leading UFO expert Sabir Hussain, with backing from former US military experts, has urged for more serious action after several unexplained sightings near the country’s nuclear facilities.
The UFO sighting
Kader’s shaky video shows a bright dot flying roughly at the altitude of an airplane on August 8 last year.
The excited UFO spotter told his wife as he followed the unusual object: ‘It’s shaking when it’s moving! It’s going up and down’.
He claimed the way it moves means ‘this could never be an airplane’.
Speaking to MailOnline, he said: ‘It’s in a southern direction.
‘It’s standing [or hovering] in the direction of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’.
His wife can be heard saying on the video obtained by the outlet: ‘It is always coming in at this time, when it is not too dark, nor too bright.
‘I’ve seen this many times’.
The alleged sighting could be caused by the constant camera movement.
Sometimes planets like Jupiter and Mercury or Sirius star have been mistakenly reported as UFOs.
But common bright planets don’t offer an explanation to Kader’s sighting which was captured at 7.30pm local time, MailOnline reports.
A sky map for his hometown Tirunelveli shows that Venus was completely obscured at that time, below the western horizon and below the sunset, the outlet argued.
The nuclear plant is located around 50 miles south of Tirunelveli near the Indian southern tip.
Kader’s wife is heard saying ‘it’s so close’ before she asks ‘how come no one else is seeing this?’
The police officer replies: ‘No, that’s why the DGP [Director General of Police] he, himself, has seen it [the UFOs]. And that’s why everybody’s talking about this.’
Around the same time as Kader’s sighting, others reported spotting aliens on the eastern coast of Neelankarai-Mahabalipuram on the outskirts of Chennai.
The area is home to the Madras Atomic Power Station in Kalpakkam.
UFO specialist Sabir Hussain, director of the Indian Society for UFO Studies (INSUFOS) in Chennai, was the first to obtain Kader’s videos.
Hussain petitioned the Indian Supreme Court in 2019 to warn officials not to dismiss reports of UFO activity near the biggest atomic power sites.
He said it could risk an unintentional nuclear war between India and its neighbour Pakistan who have a strenuous relationship, mainly over the Kashmir region.
Both countries have nuclear weapons.
His petition was endorsed by by former US counterintelligence official and Pentagon UFO investigator Lue Elizondo, US Air Force veteran Robert Salas, and other UFO experts from America and Europe, MailOnline reports.
The expert told the outlet that when he met with Kader he told him the UFO usually came from the direction of Kudankulam power plant, went towards it or was ‘stationary in that direction’.
Kader said UFOs were sometimes spotted hovering nearby the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Propulsion Complex, Hussain told the outlet.
The space complex and its laboratory in the Mahendragiri hill in the state of Tamil Nadu are famous for testing cryogenically stored rocket fuel and other space programmes.
The site is located around an hour away from Kader’s home also in Tamil Nadu state.
In 2019, Hussain said he suspected that aliens had cut communications between ISRO and its Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander, the Deccan Chronicle reported.
Hussain told DT Next that Kader’s sighting in August happened ‘just 10 days after former DGP [Director General of Police] Prateep V. Philip took pictures of a UFO on [the] Muttukadu sea shore near Chennai.’
Philip ranks in the highest position possible in the Indian Police Service.
Kudankulam nuclear power plant
Work for the controversial plant kicked off in March 2002, but it soon faced delays after local fishermen protested against it.
Bitter fight against the plant goes back to 1979 when it was first proposed.
Over the years, protesters against the power plant, including children, have faced serious sedition charges.
Almost 200 other anti-nuclear campaigners were detained for hours after a protest erupted following continuing works on two reactors.
In 2019, the country’s nuclear power corporation confirmed a hostile malware in the plant’s administrative network, but they said the critical internal network was isolated.
The malware was linked to a hacker group in North Korea.
In the US, a former Pentagon UFO expert has claimed senior officials stopped him from releasing top secret findings.
Dr Sean Kirkpatrick said he was stopped from sharing more details about the government’s secret investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
It came after he stepped down following his admittance that there could be some truth to a whistleblower’s claims that the US government is hiding evidence of aliens.
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