<p>My friend showed me a video of a CME that looked as if it was swirling into a gigantic circular "spaceship" or "UFO" and he explained it as "an alien ship potentially refueling". I did a bit of research and I <s>know</s> assumed the images he was showing me were from <s>SETI</s> SOHO and they were yellow, meaning it was obviously only a single or a couple wavelengths of light shown (possibly UV?).</p>

<p><a href="https://youtu.be/YnzZLNsSGyY" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/YnzZLNsSGyY</a></p>

<p><em>disclaimer: this clip is overly-liberal in its subtitles...</em></p>

<p>If yoy habe the original source that would be awesome.</p>

<p>Making a total BLIND guess- I'd say the plasma was swirling into the filament of the CME before it reached a critical mass to be pushed away from the sun? Once departed from the energy of the sun under certain conditions it would no longer show because it wouldn't have enough energy to emit the correct wavelength of light?</p>

<p>Am I even remotely correct? Obviously the space ship explanation has no merit- it's just from some dude. Hoping to get a clarification on the video, I do not believe it is a "UFO refueling" heh. Im not a conspiracy nut, and neither is my bud- so we're looking for a science answer :).</p>

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Damn brain- always thinks its one step ahead when its actually 10 steps behind.
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What phenomena was this video from SOHO actually showing?
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# What phenomena was this video from SOHO actually showing?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-09-28)

My friend showed me a video of a CME that looked as if it was swirling into a gigantic circular "spaceship" or "UFO" and he explained it as "an alien ship potentially refueling". I did a bit of research and I ~~know~~ assumed the images he was showing me were from ~~SETI~~ SOHO and they were yellow, meaning it was obviously only a single or a couple wavelengths of light shown (possibly UV?).

<https://youtu.be/YnzZLNsSGyY>

*disclaimer: this clip is overly-liberal in its subtitles...*

If yoy habe the original source that would be awesome.

Making a total BLIND guess- I'd say the plasma was swirling into the filament of the CME before it reached a critical mass to be pushed away from the sun? Once departed from the energy of the sun under certain conditions it would no longer show because it wouldn't have enough energy to emit the correct wavelength of light?

Am I even remotely correct? Obviously the space ship explanation has no merit- it's just from some dude. Hoping to get a clarification on the video, I do not believe it is a "UFO refueling" heh. Im not a conspiracy nut, and neither is my bud- so we're looking for a science answer :).

**Tags:** the-sun, coronal-mass-ejection, soho

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Damn brain- always thinks its one step ahead when its actually 10 steps behind.  

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