If something unusual or important showed up — an object, a phenomenon, anything — it wouldn’t just be NASA seeing it. It would show up in:
- European Space Agency data
- Japanese, Indian, Chinese, and Russian space agency observations
- Hundreds of privately owned telescopes
- Thousands of amateur astronomers who track the sky every night
- Public, automatically archived satellite feeds
- Global astronomical databases anyone can access
Space isn’t a private backyard. It’s a huge, shared sky filled with open data streams from dozens of countries and millions of independent observers.
For NASA to “hide” something, every single one of these groups — including hobbyists with backyard telescopes — would have to be part of the same cover-up. That’s not just unlikely… it’s basically impossible.
