Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is seen walking on the moon on July 20, 1969 in an image taken during the first Lunar landing of the Apollo 11 space mission by NASA.

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A British tabloid story over the weekend said astronaut Buzz Aldrin claimed he saw a UFO during a space mission.Aldrin has said the opposite, saying he believes a light he saw was the sun reflecting off the spaceship's panels.A spokesperson for Aldrin has yet again denied the claims presented in the tabloid report.

A recent report that claims astronaut Buzz Aldrin saw aliens during his trips to the moon is just plain fiction – a product of tabloid storytelling that spread like wildfire online this week.

TheLondon-based tabloid Daily Star re-ran a previously debunked conspiracy theory as part of its Sunday issue that Aldrin and several other astronauts , according to Snopes. The report claims the astronaut, as well as fellow astronautsGordon Cooper, Edgar Mitchelland Al Worden, took part in a lie-detector test in which they admitted they saw UFOs.

"This is bogus and ," a spokesperson for Aldrin told the Pedestrian, an Australian website.

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Furthermore, it's impossible for Mitchell and Cooper to have taken part in the recent study and lie-detector test, as both are dead. Cooper died 14 years ago, and Mitchell died in 2016.

The tabloid report also misreported Aldrin's comments from a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" chat . During the chat, Aldrin said he saw a shiny object outside the window, but believes it was the sun reflecting off panels from their own spaceship. He's never hinted that he suspects it was a UFO.

According to Live Science, much of the tabloid's evidence , which analyzed previous audio recordings from Aldrin, but their conclusions were the opposite of actual statements from the retired astronaut.

"Buzz did not take a lie detector test," a spokesperson told Snopes. "He has never said he saw a UFO. This story has been a fabrication for the sake of headlines and is not true as far as Buzz Aldrin is concerned. We think they’ve twisted one of his interviews to mean something it does not."