A UFO causing the SpaceX rocket explosion is the best conspiracy on the internet

 Last  week, one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets spontaneously combusted on the  launch pad while undergoing testing. It was a dramatic explosion  (although Elon Musk would prefer to call it a "fast fire"), but  according to the foil-hat-wearing corners of the internet, it was caused  by aliens, or possibly a drone.Grainy videos are doing the rounds on YouTube  that claim to show a drone hitting the rocket right around the time of  the explosion. At first glance, they are actually convincing: a dark  blob travels right above the rocket as it explodes. Illuminati? Mars  people threatened by Musk's desire to nuke Mars? Or, just a bird. 

 Let's look at the evidence a little more closely. If you slow down US Launch Report's  video to frame-by-frame, a dark object can be seen going from right to  left at 1:11. It appears on screen for about five frames. Assuming the  drone/UFO/lizard transporter flies directly overtop of the 70-meter-high  rocket, it would be about a meter wide, and travelling at 3,000 miles  per hour. 

 To  get such a small object to travel at such speed is very difficult, and  leaves us with a few plausible options. The first one is aliens. Given  that Musk is a) involved in space travel, and b) possibly an alien himself,  this seems likely. The UFO would have been so small and so fast it  wouldn't be detected by military radar, so there would be no warning --  and guess what, there was no warning. Coincidence? Unlikely.The  next best option would be Pentagon deploying its prototype rail gun to  fire some kind of explosion-causing projectile overtop of the rocket  launch. Again, not a bad theory: SpaceX is beginning to launch military  satellites, pushing out the existing monopoly launch company in the  process.The  military-industrial complex wanted to preserve its profits, so it  secretly moved a multi-billion dollar prototype weapon from a government  testing facility, set it up near a US Air Force base, and fired a  projectile near but not into the rocket to cause an embarrassing  explosion and derail SpaceX's plans.Of course, The Man already has a convenient explanation at hand. The launch was being filmed from miles away by US Launch Report, a not-for-profit run by...a US Military veteran. Since a telephoto lens was being used to film the launch, "birds" flying close to the lens at a normal speed and size will appear to be bigger, and going faster. A likely story.