This page may be out of date. Submit any pending changes before refreshing this page.
Hide this message.
Quora uses cookies to improve your experience. Read more
Robert Walker

It’s just a hoax and prank. Some do it for the ad money. Some of the Nibiru channels there are earning their owners thousands of dollars a month of ad revenue. Others are videos by members of the public who think that if they see any bright light in the sky that they don’t understand, in any circumstances, then that means it is a planet called “Nibiru”. If they had somehow been persuaded that any bright light is Santa Claus and his reindeer we’d have lots of videos uploaded with sightings of Santa. They don’t see a planet, they just see unexplained lights.

It’s not true that astronomers are murdered for speaking up about “Nibiru” as another answer here says. This rumour derives from two sources

  • Robert Harrington’s theory about a planet beyond Neptune was disproved just six months before he died of throat cancer. The conspiracy theorists reverse the order of those events and say he was killed to stop him talking about it.
  • A postgraduate student prank video about the mysterious “professor Kaplan” - actually a postgraduate student bored in an idle moment in an observatory

Robert Harrington, photograph from his obituary Bob Harrington Obituary - he was not murdered. He died of throat cancer six months AFTER his theory of an extra planet beyond Neptune was disproved by Myles Standish using data from the Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune.

See also

On wormwood see Debunked: Nibiru is Wormwood so must be real

About the Author

Robert Walker

Robert Walker

Writer of articles on Mars and Space issues - Software Developer of Tune Smithy, Bounce Metronome etc.
Studied at Wolfson College, Oxford
Lives in Isle of Mull
4.8m answer views110.3k this month
Top Writer2017, 2016, and 2015
Published WriterHuffPost, Slate, and 4 more