What Strange Space Thing Almost Hit Earth Last Month? 3.86K Adrian Chen 06/16/10 05:51PM Filed to: ufos ufos Space Science Near Earth Objects Aliens NASA astronomers tracked a strange, "few-meter-wide" object which passed Earth just outside the Moon's orbit on May 27th. Obviously aliens, right? Wrong: Its path and makeup suggests it was a chunk of an old rocket. (A human rocket.) [Discover]