According to NASA, his work on the station involved maintenance on its orbital plumbing system as well as “exploring ways to improve Earth photography techniques.” He is working alongside Anatoli Ivanishin, also of Russia, and American commander Chris Cassidy.

The mission is Vagner’s first aboard the ISS.The objects “appear flying alongside with the same distance,” Vagner tweeted. As the video was shot in a time-lapse, the flash of “objects” that quickly appear and disappear in the video actually lasted some 52 seconds. Then a string of four to five lights arranged in a diagonal line appear at the horizon. Visible in the video footage are the glowing curve of the Earth and the green of the aurora moving across it.A one-minute video appears to show potential UFOs.

But he managed to catch something else, too. While passing over Antarctica and Australia, Vagner was recording video of the aurora australis - the southern lights. On August 19th, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner was aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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