A strange story circulating online over the weekend claims that recordings of NASA astronauts talking about UFOs have been confirmed to be truthful via a sophisticated lie detector test.
According to the initial report, which appeared in the British tabloid the Daily Star, a group out of Ohio known as the 'Institute of BioAcoustic Biology' were responsible for the rather dubious-sounding research.
By allegedly making use of "complex computer analysis" which is purportedly more reliable than traditional polygraph tests, the mysterious institute says that their study of four Apollo astronauts' tales of UFO encounters were shown to be truthful.
As one can imagine, the group's work is being met with considerable skepticism, since they fail to provide any proof to back up their bold assertions.
And, in the instance of famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, they actually cite an event which he, himself, has long-insisted was not a UFO sighting.
Nonetheless, likely because Aldrin has been attached to the suspicious study, the rather fantastic story has become something of a viral sensation, spreading to numerous mainstream media outlets throughout the world since first appearing online over the weekend.
Should the curious claims continue to make headlines, one would imagine that Aldrin will issue some kind of statement to dispute the findings, lest people get the wrong impression of what he saw in space.
Source: The Independent