In 2025, in Runet, a video was widely dispersed about how an astronaut by the name of Anderson made a desperate attempt to escape, jumping with a faulty spacecraft. Shortly before that, the man allegedly recorded a video for his family. We checked the reliability of such messages.
In social networks, a minute video, which scored millions of views, was usually signed as follows: "The astronaut jumped from space to the ground to survive." In public "The world of cinema"On VKontakte, a similar post scored almost 330,000 views at the time of writing this analysis. WITH Considering others communitiesthat placed the same record in aggregate video In this social network We looked About 3 million times. In addition, users published similar viral posts Instagram* (16.7 million views), Facebook* (560 000) and Threads* (3200 likes).
The video consists of several scenes. In the beginning, a man is shown in tears who sends an air kiss to the camera. Then, the alleged shots with an astronaut working at the space station, as well as the recording of the parachutist jump from a great height and its subsequent landing, are shown. Video is accompanied by sunbathing Russian -speaking voice acting and subtitles:
“This astronaut records the last minutes of his life, where he says goodbye to his wife and daughter. The thing is that Anderson works on the space orbital apparatus, which was depressurized and went into emergency. Anderson has very little time left before he begins to freeze and he does not have oxygen. Help from the Earth will not have time to fly on time, and the success of landing on an emergency shuttle is zero. However, he decides on the most crazy act: the astronaut approached the stratosphere of the Earth as much as possible and decided to jump with a parachute from a height of 40 km. During a free fall, he develops an incredible speed of 1300 km/h and overcomes a sound barrier. But suddenly the astronaut began to spin a lot, and he panicked. But those same shots ... At some point, he found a balance and stopped spinning, and, in spite of everything, Anderson's landing was successful. And he is unlikely to return to space more. ”
There are several versions of this viral video, but the differences between them are minimal: a slightly different sunbathing voice, a little more or slightly less duration. Sometimes there are minor changes in the text. For example, somewhere it is said that the astronaut recorded an appeal to his family, and somewhere-that to his wife and daughter. In addition, at the end of one version, the audience is invited to go into an unnamed Telegram channel, where you can see more “incredible”.
With the help of a reverse search for screenshots, “verified” found that the distributed entry is mounted from several videos that are not related to each other, and its plot is mostly compiled from two stories: invented and real.
The person who is presented as an astronaut Anderson in the video is actually the name of Lewis Sonderson. He actor and popular video blogger: in Instagram Over 318,000 people were signed on it, in YouTube - 338 000, and in Tiktok -2.2 million. In his videos, Saunderson almost always cries-he depicts heroes who sacrifice themselves for the sake of others, can be about to die, confess to terrible acts, lose their relatives and fall into other heartbreaking situations. Apparently, sometimes the actor plays very convincingly - some of his sketches take for genuine stories. For example, in 2024 the Rhym and Panchi community in its publicVKontakte"(450,000 views) and in Telegram channel (198,000) published an excerpt from a blogger’s video, where he played his father, who sacrificed his heart to his son and recorded a dying appeal to the child. Original video on the YouTube channel of Sonderson was laid out Back in 2016, he scored 13 million views.
In a viral video about an astronaut, it is mainly used Record, which Senderson placed in his social networks on March 25, 2024. The most popular she became in Tiktokwhere I gained more than 28 million views. According to the plot, the astronaut, while in the spacecraft, recorded a farewell message to his wife and daughter. At the same time, it was not specified there how the hero was in such a critical situation. June 17, the blogger published a kind continuation Sketch, who scored in Tiktok Almost 18 million views. There, the actor appeared in the same suit and played an astronaut who failed his mission and, due to the breakdown of the ship, will soon freeze in space. He also recorded an appeal to his wife, who asked for forgiveness for not being able to return to her and their daughter. A few seconds from this video were also used in a viral record about the jumping of an astronaut from space.
However, the creators of the roller tested used not only staged videos performed by Sonderson. So, several episodes shown the Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner, who on October 14, 2012 He jumped From a height near 39 km, Installing Thus, several world records. For example, he reached the highest rate of free fall, which exceeded the speed of sound and amounted to 1357.6 km/h. The paratrooper was delivered to the stratosphere in a sealed capsule in a balloon, and not with the help of a spacecraft. At the beginning of the jump, an uncontrolled rotation really occurred, but soon Baumgartene managed to restore control.
That jump took place as part of the project Red Bull Stratos, and the manufacturer of energy drinks widely covered his cooperation with Baumgarter. Live broadcast on YouTube at the peak looked more than 8 million users (which also became a record), and later on the Red Bull channel Published Many videos about jumping and preparing for it. The most popular (almost 49 million views) one and a half -minute video appeared On the platform on October 15, 2012. A year later there was placed there Record From the underwear of Baumgartner's chambers lasting almost 9.5 minutes. - The audience could follow the parachutist from the beginning of the jump to the very landing. In 2022 was published video clip With the comments of the Austrian who gained more than 45 million views. Separate frames from there coincide with a video about the jumping of an astronaut from a faulty spacecraft. In addition, the authors of the viral record changed original An audio track that sounded during the demonstration of the rotation of the paratrooper.
At the end of the video analyzed for a few seconds, shots with a parachutist were demonstrated, but its equipment does not correspond to the one that Baumgartner had. By color, the parachute is more reminiscent of the one used by Alan Eustas, who on October 24, 2014 beat The record of the Austrian extremal, jumping from a height of more than 41 km. But in the video, it is not he who is definitely captured - most likely, this scene was created using a neural network.
There are other fragments generated by artificial intelligence in the viral video. Its work can be determined by characteristic features, among which unreadable inscriptions on the spacesuit and disappeared or deformed limbs of the astronaut. At least three such scenes were taken from published on YouTube in January 2025 video, which allegedly shows how the astronaut repairs the international space station.
The probable primary source of the video with a fabricated story is a Tiktok account @mysterious_Events_7 From 103,000 subscribers, whose description of the profile says: "We will reveal all the secrets and secrets of our planet to you." At least, “verified” did not find earlier publications. Moreover, @mysterious_events_7 talked about Anderson's astronaut twice, both videos left on February 14, 2025. One scored more than 11 million views, and second - Almost 3 million. The set of differences is minimal: the inscription in the upper part has changed (“Salvation of the astronaut. Miraculously reached the ground”), and one of the scenes with Senders was replaced by other personnel from the neural network. @mysterious_events_7 publishes many videos with a similar design on the topic of conspiracy and pseudoscience. For example, there is a video about a kilometer UFO in the sky over Moscow, about underwater science unknown to science creatures And about the leading time technology ancient civilizations.
On February 15, the project “Alternative Peace” shared the video about astronaut Anderson: on his YouTube channel the video scored 754,000 views, and in Instagram - 10.6 million. It was in this version that at the end there was a request to go to Telegram channelWhich has more than 173,000 subscribers. According to the description, the interests of the editors are space, UFOs, history, ancient world, catastrophes, anomalies, Antarctica and phenomena. At the same time, the “alternative world” publishes almost the same content as @mysterious_events_7.
Note that in VKontakte some Records with a fabricated video after complaints from users Received Special notethat the information in the posts may be inaccurate. However, the marking did not prevent them from recruiting additional hundreds of thousands of views, not to mention the fact that such a dick was put Not on everything Similar publications.
Thus, in the video about the astronaut, who for the sake of survival was forced to jump with a parachute from a faulty ship, a fictional story was told. The video is based on sketches of a popular blogger, fragments of the video about the real jump of the paratrooper from the stratosphere, as well as the frames generated by the neural network.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads, an extremist organization, its activities and symbolism in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: @Lewissaunderson38 (YouTube) / Socialists / @redbull (YouTube) / Collage "Checked"
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