A UFO blogger has made a bizarre claim that an image of the Sun snapped earlier this week by cameras aboard NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite contains proof of the controversial Hollow Artificial Sun Theory popular in conspiracy theory circles but derided by mainstream scientists as a crank theory.

A SOHO image of the solar atmosphere captured on March 14, 2016, shows a massive anomaly that extends millions of miles across the face of the Sun. According to UFO blogger Scott Waring, the anomaly is a gigantic rectangular hatch that opened up in the Sun just enough to allow alien UFO motherships to exit or enter the hollow interior of the Sun, believed in some conspiracy theory circles to contain a massive alien base.

However, some UFO hunters disagreed with Waring’s view that the image shows the massive entrance to an alien base inside the Sun. UFO hunter TheWatcher252, who first reported the solar anomaly, had suggested it might be a massive UFO flying close to the Sun. But many UFO researchers opposed the assumption, raising questions about the structural integrity of a single UFO extending millions of miles across the face of the Sun.

But pointing to the fact that the structure appears to extend beyond the edge of the Sun, some UFOlogists suggested that the image shows a form of “alien megastructure,” consisting of billions of solar panels, sweeping over the solar atmosphere as it harvested energy from the Sun.

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One UFO researcher speculated that the massive anomaly could be “streaks left by cosmic rays.”

UFO Sightings Daily’s Scott Waring was the first UFO researcher to suggest that the photo shows a giant hatch that opened up on the surface of the Sun to allow alien spaceships to exit or enter the Sun’s hollow interior. The UFO hunter claimed that the NASA image may have settled the debate over the Hollow Artificial Sun Theory, which posits that our Sun is an artificial structure, a giant alien base, or space station that generates energy from a non-thermonuclear energy source.

In comments posted on his blog UFO Sightings Daily on March 16, 2016, Waring writes, “A giant door opened up on the sun this week, just a little bit, enough to make a crack across the sun, and through the crack shined pure white light of the world inside.”

“It opened just enough to allow motherships to exit or enter,” he added.

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According to the UFO researcher, the SOHO image proves the Hollow Artificial Sun Theory.

“For many UFO researchers it is believed that the sun itself is an artificial structure, with a flaming camouflage on the outside and a massive world 1000X our own on the inside,” he writes, and concludes, “This photo, as rare as it is, confirms that theory.”

The Hollow Artificial Sun Theory is a bizarre conspiracy theory that serves as the logical extension of other equally bizarre but popular conspiracy theories, such as the Hollow Earth Theory and the Spaceship Moon Theory — also known as the Artificial Moon Theory or Alien Moon Theory.

The Hollow Artificial Sun Theory originated from the speculations of “fringe” theorists, such as Jeffrey Wolynski, who claimed that the Sun is much younger than the Earth and that it does not have a core, being a hollow structure like a giant inflated balloon. According to Hollow Sun theorists, because the Sun has an empty or hollow interior, it will eventually collapse on itself gravitationally.

Wolynski originated the theory of Stellar Metamorphosis. He speculated that contrary to scientific consensus, the Hollow Sun does not generate energy through thermonuclear fusion reaction but through a process linked to “galaxy growth.”

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But Wolynski did not suggest that the Sun is an artificial structure or a space station constructed by technologically advanced alien races. The idea that the Sun is a hollow artificial structure was popularized in conspiracy theory circles as an extension of the speculations of fringe theorists, such Eric Dollard and Stephen J. Goodfellow (see YouTube below), who in turn based their ideas on the so-called Plasma Cosmology theory — first proposed by Nobel Prize winning physicist Hannes Alfven — and its extension, the Electric Universe Theory. Both theories share in common the idea that the Sun runs on electrical rather than thermonuclear fusion and that the formation and evolution of stars is shaped by electricity and magnetism and not gravity as mainstream science claims.

Goodfellow, for instance, suggested that the Sun consists of an outer shell that is some form of charged plasma encasing with a hollow vacuum interior that induces gravity (see video above).

Conspiracy theorists and paranormal buffs extended these fringe theories by suggesting that they imply the Sun is a massive artificial space station or alien UFO base inhabited by technologically advanced alien races.

The Hollow Artificial Sun Theory is an extension of the Hollow Artificial Moon Theory, which claims that our Moon is a giant artificial space station or gigantic alien UFO spaceship with a hollow interior, placed in orbit around the Earth by technological aliens.

According to proponents of the Spaceship Moon Theory, there is evidence to suggest that the Moon was built by an alien civilization with highly advanced science and technology.

The Hollow Artificial Sun theory is also an extension of the Hollow Earth Theory, which argues that the Earth is a hollow structure with a “central sun” and that there is an alien civilization living in subterranean cities inside the Earth.

Some UFOlogists believe that the UFOs we see on Earth come from the aliens living in the Earth’s interior.

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