The photo of the crash of a NASA flying saucer has a real story behind it

As for titles, it's a doozy. NASA shared an image Sunday as part of its series of astronomical images of the day and titled it with the fanciful phrase "The crash of a flying saucer lands in the desert". ;Utah".

If that is as far as you read, then you might think that NASA is finally angry at the aliens who visit the Earth. But this is not the case. It's just a fun reference to what the 2004 image actually shows: the remnants of the space agency's Genesis mission.

Genesis launched in 2001 to study the sun. The spacecraft includes a flying saucer-shaped sample return capsule. The capsule crashed on Earth in 2004 when his parachutes failed to open.

"The Genesis mission gravitated around the Sun by collecting solar wind particles that are generally deflected by the Earth's magnetic field," NASA said, noting that some samples were still in good shape despite the hard landing.

NASA followed the re-entry by radar and sent tracking helicopters to follow it. 388 Squadron of the US Air Force took the photo of the partially buried capsule in the desert of Utah.

The picture goes around the internet this week due to the release of NASA, photo of the day, combined with catchy title, but it's not really new. He appears in a photo gallery on the official website of the mission.

The title of the photo is not fake, it is simply that it was an IFO (flying object identified) and not a UFO. Fans of extraterrestrial visiting theories will be disappointed.