One thing you have to admit - Aliens are adaptable, great dramatists, and possess a superb sense of humor.

Why else would the latest sighting over San Petersburgh in Russia look most like the spirit of Rasputin, the Mad Monk?

There have been a number of UFO sightings this year that have been reported by HNGN. But this one seems to be the strangest.

Perhaps it was a 13,000-year-old alien satellite orbiting Earth. But it sure looked amazing enough to be thought of as a UFO.

Watch the video. You can see a strange, black object suspended in mid-air and broadcast by a Mexican paranormal TV station.

The video was shot in San Petersburgh in Russia, and has triggered off a number of online speculations.

It was Rasputin, said an awed Tercer Milenio TV show, which was the first to broadcast it.

Rasputin, that Russian peasant who doubled as a faith healer sure has achieved a lot of fame. Born Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin in 1869, he became a monk who turned into a trusted friend of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia.

He soon got promoted into an influential figure in Saint Petersburg. And then quickly demoted - wiped out, in fact - when he got assassinated on December 30, 1916.

So a hundred years later, in 2016, his ghost has probably got resurrected. In the YouTube video, subtitles announce: "It was recorded what seems to be an orthodox monk from Russia, it was seen with his black robes in the sky. It brings the question to the table can man fly without any device or wings?"

The first affirmation came from UFO blogger Scott C Waring. He wrote: "This new video discusses the possibilities of this being a flying monk that lived in the area. I do admit that it does have a lot of similarities to the monk. Also, yes, some aliens could fly like this, but not most. For example, energy beings easily move about without the need for legs. If this is indeed a local monk, then we now know for sure, he was never human and that he never died, but has technology for living forever and is still to this day watching over his home of San Petersburgo."

He was countered by a commentator who asked: "Isn't that the black knight satellite?"

That had been another theory. The 'Black Knight satellite' was triggered by NASA images, after the 1998 Endeavor Space Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

YouTube/Tercer Milenio TV