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Originally posted by flyingfish
It came from transcripts of a thread .The thread began with a November 29, 2001 posting by James Oberg, which objected to a reference to the X-15 sighting in Filer’s Files 16 from April 1999.
Don Ledger made the initial reply to Oberg’s posting by saying, “Flakes of ice in the vacuum of space I can buy into but not within the atmosphere at supersonic speeds – and thirty to forty feet away tumbling in front of the pressure wave – which incidentally should be well aft of the X-15. That’s one strong piece of ice flake. NASA et al seem to be getting away with the ice flake explanation for a lot of sightings and to be honest-I think it’s getting a bit old.” [3] This issue, the dynamic pressure on the X-IS at the time of the sighting, became central to the subsequent debate the following day, November 30.
Good read. Source:magonia.haaan.com...
In the end, I get feeling that although no one could say "exactly" what it was White had seen. It seems that White's statements about the objects were highlighted by the Media to fluff up the historical flight.
Originally posted by Shadowhawk
Thank you for posting links to video of the X-15. The footage very clearly shows frost on the fuselage in the vicinity of the liquid oxygen tank. The frost appears as white rectangles on the top and bottom of the fuselage. I took the time to look up a number of still photos, as well, that clearly show that frost often remained even after landing (sometimes melted into various patterns but always present as long as there was fuel in the tank). It is easy to see how flakes of frost might break loose as the metal fuselage flexed during flight.
As far as the "UFO" sightings go, Robert White's comments (from the original mission debrief transcripts) make his position on the subject is clear:
White said, "While I was level I started noticing some things and I said, 'Now wait a minute, they must be inside the cockpit,' but they were outside the cockpit. It looked like perhaps it might have been residue or frost or very small little things going by."
He described the largest object as looking "like a piece of paper" about the size of his hand, just off to the left side and level with the cockpit window. He thought that several smaller objects on the right side may have come from the nose of the vehicle. This would be consistent with ice forming around the hydrogen peroxide fueled reaction-control thrusters.
Sometime between 23 July and 7 September 1962, the Public Affairs Office at NASA's Flight Research Center issued NASA News release 11-62 stating that NASA Officials had released photographs taken during White's flight. Still images were printed from 16mm film shot with a motion picture camera mounted in the aircraft's lower tail fin. The pictures showed "an undetermined sized object of a grey-white color tumbling slowly above and behind the X-15."
NASA technicians correlated the frames of film showing the object with other flight data and determined that the photos were taken as the X-15 climbed through 270,000 feet. They could not say for certain whether the object in the pictures was the same one reported by White.
The news release also noted Joe Walker's sighting at an altitude of 246,700 feet on 30 April 1962. According the to release, "After a detailed examination and study, NASA officials found these objects to be particles of ice flaking off the frosty sides of the research aircraft."
Radio transcripts from Walker's flight do not mention any sighting. Walker never mentioned anything about it in his postflight comments either, perhaps because he didn't think about it until after hearing White's comments following the later flight.
In any case, the X-15 UFO sightings seem to have generated little scientific or professional interest among NASA scientists and engineers, and apparently NASA officials saw no reason not to release the photos.
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by WilburWheately
What a morbid and distasteful line of questioning, Anunnaki. These men and women died fully aware of the risks involved in their endeavors and I find it rather odious to try to shoe-horn in a bunch of the typical conspiracy quackery in an attempt to buttress a belief in visiting ET races. These people died.
Shadowhawks facts check out. You could figure that out for yourself, but you clearly aren't going to.
Originally posted by JimOberg
Heating did not destroy 'Columbia' at that altitude, by the way -- another gross factual error that you so eagerly conjure up to support pre-conclusions.
Originally posted by Anunaki10
Originally posted by JimOberg
Heating did not destroy 'Columbia' at that altitude, by the way -- another gross factual error that you so eagerly conjure up to support pre-conclusions.
Satellites enter the Earth's atmosphere at approximately 20,000 mph, and burns up in the Mesosphere, while space shuttles enter the Earth's atmosphere at approximately 24,000 mph, the space shuttles is usually heat-shield protected, to protect the astronauts against the heat from the air pressure in the Mesosphere, during re-entry.
Due to the defect on the heat-shield of Columbia, it's enough to make the rest of the construction to burn up, so yes, there is a very very good chance that the heating from the air pressure caused the astronauts' bodies to burn up together with Columbia, in the Mesosphere.
Originally posted by Shadowhawk
You continue to be an insulting troll, Annunaki. I posted my sources: the original NASA flight records. Those are my sources, as well as interviews with people who worked on the program (engineers, pilots, etc.). Original transcripts are much more reliable than articles written after the fact. There are not always Internet links to such data because it exists only as a hardcopy in archival files. The documentation is available to anyone who requests it from NASA. Maybe you should try that instead of making outrageous claims based on YouTube videos and stupid shows like "UFO Hunters" that play fast and loose with the facts. (And yes, the UFO Hunters production people do sometimes fake things to make their shows more exciting. I have watched them do it. Mark Easter of MUFON exposed it on ATS.)
You have also ignored your own evidence that the X-15 was actually coated with frost before launch and even during landing. The frost is plainly visible in videos and still photos. You can not claim that there is no frost on the X-15 as there very clearly is.
I'm not sure why you are asking how long the crew of Columbia suffered during the reentry mishap in 2003 but you need only look at the "Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report" (NASA SP-2008-565). Investigators found five events with lethal potential to the crew, starting with cabin depressurization during break-up of the vehicle. The second event would have been exposure to a dynamic rotating load environment while wearing nonconformal helmets and lacking upper body restraint. A third event, separation from the crew module and seats with associated forces, material interactions, and thermal consequences, was least understood by investigators due to limited knowledge of these mechanisms at high Mach numbers and altitudes. Exposure to near vacuum, aerodynamic accelerations, and cold temperatures had fatal potential, and obviously ground impact. Since the crew members were all recovered without any of their survival equipment (pressure suits, helmets, thermal undergarments, etc.), it is fair to say that they were most likely deceased early in the mishap sequence.
This is backed up by the fact that during atmospheric entry from orbit, one crew member was not wearing a helmet, others had their visors open, and three were not wearing gloves. Investigators determined that there was a 40-second period after orbiter loss of control and before cabin depressurization when the crew was conscious and capable of action. Depressurization occurred so quickly that the crew would have been incapacitated before being able to fully don their gear. The report stated that, "Although circulatory systems functioned for a brief time, the crew could not have regained consciousness upon descent to lower altitudes due to the effects of depressurization."
You can't compare the Columbia mishap to the X-15-3 mishap of November 15, 1967. The space shuttle broke apart at an altitude of 200,000 feet while traveling at Mach 18. The X-15 broke apart at 65,000 feet while traveling at Mach 3.93 as a result of limit-cycle oscillations that caused the aircraft to engage in excessively severe pitch oscillations. According to the X-15 Accident Investigation Report, the forces on the aircraft were 12G vertically and 8G laterally – possibly more – and it is unlikely Mike Adams was conscious at this point.
You have never proven that NASA covers up UFO sightings. The ice flake hypothesis was based on the most likely scenario since ice was observed on the vehicle (photos and motion picture footage confirm this) and the objects looked more like ice flakes than anything else. Simple application of science and Occams' Razor tells us that it is much more likely that White and Walker observed ice flakes than anything else. Had the objects been anything more interesting, NASA scientists would have been very keen to study the phenomenon. Instead, they concluded it was ice and moved on to other things.
Originally posted by Anunaki10
.... including Top Secret NASA documents about astronaut James McDevitt's UFO sighting in space, were McDevitt also confirm that NASA is lying about his UFO sighting,...
Originally posted by Anunaki10
You do realize that satellites travelling 20,000 mph burns up in the Mesosphere due to heat from air pressure, yes? And you do know that space shuttles travel 24,000 mph during re-entry, yes? There was a defect on the heat-shield on Columbia, which according to the laws of physics should be enough to burn up the rest of Columbia due to the heat from the air pressure. It tells how fatal the consequenses can be, just because of a little defect.
Originally posted by JimOberg
You do realize that you are a cause for ROTFLOL merriment from spaceflight professionals and even informed amateurs -- of whom there are several dozen respected members here on ATS -- who realize how foolish you keep making yourself look by spouting non-factual nonsense? Your precious quotation about the "laws of physics" was especially a screen-spitting moment.
Your investigative energy is first rate. Learn a little reality about spaceflight and you will become a much more effective contributor to serious arguments here. The subject deserves it.
Clue #1. No space shuttle has EVER traveled anywhere NEAR 24,000 mph, and you never read it anywhere because nobody else in all my wide reading has ever made that claim. It must be entirely dreamed up. Disprove that suspicion by providing a link, if you can.
To achieve orbit, the shuttle must accelerate from zero to a speed of almost 28,968 kilometers per hour (18,000 miles per hour), a speed nine times as fast as the average rifle bullet.
As the Columbia accident so tragically demonstrated, a spacecraft's thermal protection system (TPS) is a matter of life and death. Re-entering the atmosphere generates tremendous heat from air compression ahead of the spacecraft's supersonic shock wave. Orion's re-entry speed from lunar missions will be about 24,000 mph, 40 percent faster than that of the shuttle. This translates into a heat buildup rate five times greater than the shuttle's, with temperatures reaching 4800 F. >>It's a huge challenge
According to 'Jaguarmike', Jim Marrs says that when humans dies, their souls are transported to an alien military base on Jupiter, and brainwashed for about 9 years. Then, the human souls are dumped into the water around California, and scramble to inhabit a newborn human baby.
So in case 'Jaguarmike' is right about Jim Marrs' views, then the souls from the dead astronauts/cosmonauts and X-15 pilots could be taken care of by aliens, were the aliens transport their souls to an alien base on Jupiter, were the souls get brainwashed for 9 years, and then dumped into the water around California, and get reborn into a new baby.
Originally posted by Turiddu
Uh what?
Originally posted by Turiddu
Uh what?
Originally posted by JimOberg
Who is "James McDevitt"? He doesn't appear on any NASA bio page. Why not?
The strategies for dealing with those former servicemen, corporate employees or witnesses brave or ‘foolish’ enough to come forward to reveal classified information is to intimidate, silence, eliminate or discredit these individuals. This policy involves such strategies as removing all public records of former military service men or corporate employees, forcing individuals to make retractions, deliberately distorting statements of individuals, or discrediting individuals. Bob Lazar, for example, claimed to be a former physicist employed with reverse engineering extraterrestrial craft. He described the disappearance of all his university and public records indicating how military-intelligence agencies actively discredit whistleblowers.