SpaceShipOne Astronaut Saw a Dozen Glowing Spheres in His Backyard | Kevin Curran & Matt Stinemetze

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A crashed spaceship. A career left in doubt. And six days later, a backyard full of light he couldn't explain. Brian Binnie was the second person to fly a private spacecraft to the edge of space — a Navy veteran with 33 combat missions, advanced degrees from Brown and Princeton, and the test pilot who flew the final flight of SpaceShipOne. Six days after a hard landing damaged its landing gear and left him wondering whether he would ever fly it again, Binnie described watching roughly a dozen glowing, translucent spheres move through his backyard in Rosamond, California, at four in the morning. He kept the account within a small circle for years. He passed away in 2022. I sit down with…