Originally posted by ufoptics
First....thoroughly explained? The explanation just doesn't fit. Your saying that it was space junk. That is the most remarkable moving space
junk....
I would not call it space junk per say, its most likely a very small piece of ice or debris that is floating along with the shuttle. It might only be
the size of a nut or bolt.
Originally posted by ufoptics
flies along then pauses and does a 90 degree turn and then zips off the other direction. The streak that goes by is coming from an angle not in
relation to the shuttle.
There are reactant rockets all around the shuttle, they have enough force in them to push the shuttle with a single burst, they have more then enough
power to alter the trajectory of an object the size of a bolt. When they fire they fire more then one at a time, if they did not do this the shuttle
would continue to move in the direction of the first thrust. Therefore, you have one thrust to start the movement, and another thrust to stop the
movement once the desired attitude is achieved. Not all of those reactant rockets may be visible from the cameras perspective, but the objects they
displace may be.
For example, lets say one fired on the aft part of the shuttle near the camera, it starts the shuttle in a roll and pushes your object upward. Then
the rocket to check that roll, which is maybe on the nose fires stopping the roll, it pushes the object in another direction, thus your object just
made a 90° turn in the field of the cameras view, while only one reactant burst is picked up by the camera.
Originally posted by ufoptics
So the theory of the booster rockets and space junk causing this is nonsense.
Funny, that is exactly what the experts who made the shuttle said it was, debris moved by the react rockets.
Originally posted by ufoptics
Second, The last time I checked airliners and aircraft in general have more than 1 giant light.Not to mention they have strobe and red lights in
addition to their landing lights.
True, and not true.
Aircraft are required by FAA regulations to turn on their landing lights when they go below 10K feet. While aircraft do have strobes, navigation
lights, and rotating beacons, these are not visible at distance when the landing lights are turned on. The landing lights are so much brighter then
the weak nav and beacon lights that they are simply overpowered by them, and merge into a single bright light. The Strobes are aft pointing, and only
visible when you are looking from behind the wing.
I can easily go to the local airport, film aircraft on approach, and show that they can appear to be a single bright white light hovering soundlessly
in the sky. It has to do with altitude, aircraft type, direction of travel, and distance. Again it is an optical illusion.
Originally posted by ufoptics
Now, if that was a bat...I'll eat it raw. I have seen hundreds of bats in my lifetime and never has one flown a perfect straight line from that
angle or height. After all, bats are flying around for one thing....FOOD....INSECTS....
I see a bat flying from slightly below the pole to above it, maybe a distance of 30 feet in a straight line. I see bats swoop like that here to catch
bugs all the time.