(OPINION) Express – UFO hunters were left in a frenzy after a “black triangle” was spotted hovering near the Sun for more than a year. Has “intelligent alien life” visited the solar system or is there a much more mundane explanation?

The supposed UFO was first spotted more than a year ago on the Helioviewer instrument. The online tool allows people to observe the latest snapshots of the Sun from various satellites, including NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the NASA-ESA SOHO spacecraft.

Self-professed ET expert and conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring claims to have stumbled upon the mystery object once again a year after his initial discovery. Mr. Waring took to his blog UFOSightingsDaily where he speculated wildly about the object’s origin. He noted the triangle appeared near the Sun in regular intervals, claiming it could be an alien spacecraft.


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The UFO hunter then went on to suggest the triangle was an entrance into a “hollow Sun” or some sort of wormhole. It is worthing none of Mr. Waring’s theories included more plausible explanations, such as a software glitch in the images.

Mr. Waring wrote: “I was looking at the sun on Helioviewer this week and noticed the black triangle that I discovered over a year ago is still there. “It seems to move every three months. I mean every three months it moves in the opposite direction. READ MORE