Orbs, blobs, and glows: astronauts, UFOs, and photography. From: Art Journal | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Marsching, Jane D. | COPYRIGHT 2003 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Neil Armstrong saw UFOs: two pale orbs haloed in a cobalt glow hovering in a pitch-black void. Or so countless websites report in copy-and-paste narratives replete with audio, tiny fuzzy color images, and corroborations by ex-NASA employees, doctors, and even one of Neil's friends. In photographs of UFOs taken by astronauts, two divergent worlds come into the same orbit: science and the paranormal. Astronomers and urologists both gaze into outer space, but with very different desir...