Astronaut Tim’s wee mistake in UFO scare aboard ISS

ASTRONAUT Tim Peake has told how he thought he had seen UFOS while in space, only to discover it was in fact droplets of liquid leaking out of a Russian probe vehicle.

Major Peake became the first official British astronaut to join the International Space Station crew in 2015, and during his mission he earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon in orbit.

Major Peake, who spent six months in space, told The Graham Norton Show: “Space is very black and one day I was looking out and there were three lights moving in formation and then there was a fourth.

“We were perplexed, until we realised that what we thought were the far away lights of alien spaceships were actually very close small droplets.

“What was happening was liquid leaking out of a Russian probe vehicle, crystallising instantly and reflecting the light.

“What we were seeing was Russian urine.”

The astronaut, who has released his autobiography Limitless, appeared on the programme alongside Gary Barlow, Nadiya Hussain, Richard Osman and Mariah Carey

– who joined from the US virtually.

Major Peake said Limitless is “really the journey from young boy to astronaut”, adding: “I feel a bit of a fraud because as a boy I had no ambitions at all of wanting to be an astronaut – I was obsessed with being a pilot.”

He was also asked if he hopes to return to space. “I’d love to, absolutely. “In fact, we are all slated for a second mission between now and 2024. I’m waiting by the phone,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hussain, who won the Great British Bake Off in 2015, said the Channel 4 show’s latest victor Peter

Sawkins of Edinburgh is “in for quite a ride”.