Veteran NASA astronaut Tom Jones said he wondered about UFOs long before he joined the space agency. Astronaut Tom Jones during one of his three spacewalks on Space Shuttle mission STS-98 in February 2001 which activated the U.S. Destiny Laboratory, the historic scientific centerpiece of the International Space Station. Jones flew on four space shuttle missions over 11 years, culminating with STS-98, in February 2001, as seen in the below video. In his Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine column, "Ask the Astronaut," Jones answered a recent question about whether he or other astronauts had ever seen UFOs from orbit. "I used to be a big UFO fan when I was a teenager, thinking that this was the next great frontier of exploration," Jones said in a recent interview with The Huffington Post.

Source: Huffington Post May 07, 2016 05:33 UTC