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Originally posted by Dulcimer
The next time you are in a snowstorm, watch the flakes flutter about and make hair pin turns.
Originally posted by MagicPriest420
what i find funny is that on the NASA tv channel they dont show any recent videos from nasa...all the stuff they show looks like it was recorded in the 70's...why dont they show any new footage.....maybe they dont want real ufo's flying by on your tv screen? what do you think?
Originally posted by MagicPriest420
I watched the launch live on tv..and i did see the ufo's...the video just cutts off...and i hred them say it was because they cant keep a live video feed in space...honestly i dont believe that at all...i think they didnt expect for any space craft to flying around during the launch..but they dont controll space..we share it...i just wonder which aliens were flying those crafts..that would be cool to know
Originally posted by lost_shaman
Another thing, the STS -80 " Formation over Africa " is only one of a hundred UFO videos from NASA. Why focus all our attention on one or another when we have hundreds of UFO videos?
Originally posted by Dulcimer
So do you think that NASA would hide information on ET life, let alone intelligent ET life just hours of travel away from earth?
Do you believe they are hiding evidence on UFO's?
If so, why? They are obviously doing research to look for signs of life.
Why hide it if they spend the money to research it?
Of course, you could say that its the government telling them to keep it under wraps etc etc. But those excuses get old fast.
What would they need to hide?
I was fortunate to come across a letter from Chuck Shaw who was the lead Flight Director for STS-75 on the web, which addressed issues raised by James Oberg concerning anomalous images that appeared on
the STS-75 footage. As luck would have it the letter also had Mr. Shaw's e-mail, so I decided to put a few questions to him.
Here are his replies to my questions, which arrived on 4 January, 2001. It's funny don't you think, how Mr. Shaw refers to UFOs, when I did not even mention the term in my original letter!
DAVE: Mr Oberg said that the (anomalous phenomenon) was simply 'cosmic rays', but could not comment further after I pointed out that the CCD (Charge Coupled Device) cameras were incapable of
picking this phenomena up?
CHUCK: Unfortunately you are quite incorrect insofar as CCD's not picking up cosmic rays. I am an amateur astronomer, and enjoy astro-photography using both film and a CCD camera I built (a CB245). Quite often I get images with cosmic ray hits on them. I usually take a series of images and average them to improve signal to noise. And it is not unusual to have several images with cosmic ray hits in them in a series of images. This is well known and quite common to the CCD community. As to whether or not the image artifacts were cosmic ray
hits, there is simply no way to tell, However, it is not unusual to have them.
DAVE: The main question that has foxed me all this time is: if these 'disc-shaped objects' were indeed ice crystals close to the camera lens, how would the camera have picked them up if it was focusing on an object (the tether) which was reported by the film commentator to be 70+ miles away? Surely they would have been focused out, as would water drips on a window if you focused on a far away object? Or are NASA saying that these ice crystal are several miles in width?
CHUCK: It is not unusual for light reflections off ice crystals to cause sun glints back into the cameras. The sun glints are not sensitive to distance (within reason). In addition, any moisture in the camera lense (and there is always some there), aggravates any glints and causes internal reflections inside the lenses. It would be
nice to have state of the art camera on the Shuttle, since they are getting old and suffer a lot from optical and mechanical aggravations. However budget pressure makes you concentrate on more important issues and we learn to live with things like this.
DAVE: We are told that the footage is taken three days after the Tether broke away and that the 'phenomena' that we see is a 'toilet flush' that had been carried out a few hours before filming commenced. Anyone can apply simple mathematics and work out that the Tether must be moving away from the Shuttle at approximately one mile an hour (72 hours and 70+ miles away). If this is so, we can calculate that the 'toilet flush' should therefore be approximately two miles away, not right in front of the camera.
CHUCK: You are neglecting the effects of orbital dynamics, which is the dominant effect. When the Tether separated, the satellite and Tether did, in effect, a 100 ft/sec posigrade manouvre due to differences in altitude of the two masses (which had been constrained to be in the same orbit, and that same effect was what was providing the tension in the Tether), which moved the satellite and Tether up and behind the orbiter. After three days we lapped the satellite (i.e. we had moved approximately 25,000 miles ahead of it and were coming up on it from below and behind). The 'toilet flush' you mentioned was actually a supply of waste water dump that we
periodically have to do. The fuel cell and waste water are stored in tanks, and when those tanks get full they get dumped through the nozzles overboard. The water freezes as it is dumped and makes a huge
cloud of 'snow'. We typically dump the retrograde to allow orbital dynamics to help dissipate the cloud away from the orbiter, but there is always a portion that stays with us since the cloud expands very rapidly in all directions when it hits a vacuum. It is not unusual to have a cloud of ice crystals around the orbiter at a variety of
distances for several days after dumps. As much as I would like to think some type of UFO was around, the fact is there was not anything up there that we did not understand.
Originally posted by Denied
U know this guy...now thats interesting, please tell me and us what he told u.....
Originally posted by Dulcimer
First off, doesn't NASA want to find ET life?