
"The bigger picture many of us have come to believe is hiding God," Skiba said. Skiba believes the conspiracy is rooted in deeper religious implications. "Oh, the rockets go up, sure, there's nobody in them." "No astronaut has ever been and this is going to sound wild when I say this, no astronaut has ever been on a top of a pile of liquid explosives launched off in space," Sargent purported. Many flat-Earthers, including Sargent, believe that astronauts are actually actors who are part of a larger conspiracy. I felt like I was I was looking into heaven," he continued. " my eyewitness account and I looked at it as much as I could. The former NASA astronaut added that in his own experience looking at the planet from space, Earth looks round. "And at that point you're sort of saying, 'Wait a minute.'"īut Mike Massimino, senior adviser for space programs at the Intrepid Museum in New York City, told ABC News the topic is not up for debate. "As soon as you start looking into the pictures of the globe, you start seeing words like 'composite' or 'animation' or you know something that tells you this is not an actual photograph of the earth," Skiba said. "Absolutely sound."įlat-Earthers denounce traditional and iconic "blue marble" images taken from space as fake, including Rob Skiba. But the basic concept is sound," he said.

"I mean there are some details to be worked out, sure. Sargent told ABC News he is "pretty sure" that’s what the flat Earth looks like.
