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Astronaut photographs eerie red lights flashing above Earth
To the sci-fi minded, strange lights hovering above Earth can mean only one thing… And yet, when astronaut Matthew Dominick spotted eerie flashes of colour in the planet’s atmosphere, his mind didn’t jump to an alien invasion. Instead, the NASA pro – who …