Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao had a baffling — and seemingly terrifying — encounter when he was flying his private four-seat airplane in 2023. At an altitude of 9,000 feet over Houston, Texas, the former Space Shuttle commander had two "perfectly smooth" and "shiny" spheres, roughly three feet in diameter, rip by him a mere 20 feet away. He first detailed the unusual encounter in an interview with NewsNation on December 19 and recently elaborated on the sighting in a follow-up with the New York Post. "There was nothing around me other than the panhandle of Texas at nine […]