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We’re running out of space... RACE FOR TOP ORBIT SPOTS ‘COULD SPARK WAR’

- ■■Jerry LAWTON

THE US military is investigat­ing an ‘unidentifi­ed flying orb’ after the huge metallic-looking structure was spotted by a spy plane over an active conflict zone.

The image, taken in April 2016 in northern Iraq, was part of a classified briefing for US officials and was shared by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp on their podcast Weaponised. Produced by the Pentagon’s Unidentifi­ed Aerial Phenomena Task Force, the briefing described the object moving from south to north, but noted it didn’t change altitude.

What the orb is remains unclear,

SPACE is running out of space and it could end in war, boffins say.

With up to 100 lunar missions due to be launched within the next decade — many pumping satellites into orbit — the gap between the Earth and Moon is set to become overcrowde­d.

Far from being empty blackness, space is about to become busier than ever.

And the battle for limited good spots could trigger conflict on Earth, experts but according to Jeremy and George, the US military are taking the matter seriously as they believe it was under ‘intelligen­t control’.

Jeremy said: “This is within part of the conversati­on of our intelligen­ce community, this is what they’re looking at. have now warned.

On top of well-known companies such as Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin or Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic launching missions a host of other nations and private firms have their eye on the Moon.

Lunar

Both the US and China have ambitious lunar exploratio­n programs in the works with plans to land astronauts on the Moon and

“Isn’t it funny? UFOs are often reported in four basic shapes, you’ve got spheres, pyramids, cubes, and cigars. Very fundamenta­l shapes, totally not aerodynami­c at all.

“The intelligen­ce community [is] saying ‘this is a UFO, we caught one, what can we determine from it’.” build habitats and infrastruc­ture in orbit.

In 2021 NASA selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop a human landing system variant of its Starship vehicle to put astronauts on the Moon during the US space agency’s Artemis-III mission.

Laura Forczyk, boss of US consultanc­y Astralytic­al, warned that it’s getting tight in the galaxy.

“It might seem like space is big but the specific orbits that we are most interested in get filled up fast,” she said.

Jim Myers, of research organisati­on The Aerospace Corporatio­n, said: “Unless we do this in a very thoughtful way, unless we plan, we’re going to run into trouble.”

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PLANS: Elon

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