UFO - Captured during Spacelab IV mission 1973-74

I dont know about you folks, but for myself, I have always enjoyed the space captures more for some reason. Perhaps it is just my sense of it being closer to its home of space. We have all seen some great stuff coming from Nasa and the space station etc..

I really like this video below, because the OP of it really walks you through exactly what he is doing as far as how he is trying to enhance the object captured and exactly where he got it from etc.

This is what the OP of the video said as far as describing it:

This time a video of an anomaly (UFO) taken during the Spacelab IV mission in the year 1973/1974. The UFO or anomaly is a huge colorful object.

Yes, in the end it is still a blur, but it is a very Interesting blur IMHO. I just thought I would bring it to the ATS Table and see what you ufo gurus think of it.

wouldn't mind seeing the original photo of that.did he mention the name of it ?

funbox

Originally posted by funbox
wouldn't mind seeing the original photo of that.did he mention the name of it ?

funbox

Actually in the very beginning of the video Im pretty sure he showed where he got it from and also if I recall very near the beginning he did show the original photo. I'll have to go back and look, but like I said Im pretty sure it was near the beginning he said ok lets look at the original, then he started with how he tried to enhance it etc.

eta: silly me, the name is actually on the video. He shows the website where he got it from in beginning of video


eta 2: looks like this is the website LINK
Hope that helps

reply to post by onehuman


The picture is from the Skylab 4 mission
en.wikipedia.org...

Image # SL4-190-6960
eol.jsc.nasa.gov...

Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website
eol.jsc.nasa.gov...

I doubt any of the dots are stars because of ther camera setting in dusk light levels.

But you can tell exactly what the date of the photo was, right?

Who can come up with that?

reply to post by JimOberg


I would love to help you with that answer, but that is why I brought it here. I hope the wiser of the ATS Members in this department, as far as finding out that kind of answer can help us. It does look like it is from a series of shots though, so Im sure the answer is there somewhere.

I am curious though as to why the specific date is so important to you?

Originally posted by onehuman

I am curious though as to why the specific date is so important to you?

Happy to explain, but gosh, why is the specific date NOT important, ever?

it allows a determination of concurrent actions and the context of the picture.

Some flight phases have a lot of spacecraft generated debris, and some, not so much.

The object in the photograph is the S4B stage of the Saturn-1b booster, which the
Apollo CSM separates from in the first hour of flight, photographs, and then moves away from,
never to return.

That tells us the date is the day of launch, and that the phase is a dynamic one that is about
the most active period of 'stuff' floating away from vehicles, Every flight is surrounded by
blizzards of flakes of space dandruff at precisely this phase.

Isn't that important?

And isn't it important to note that the OP and the youtube poster didn't seem to know that?

reply to post by JimOberg


Me asking why the date was so important to you has no bearing on what I know or dont know. I was just curious as to importance to you. Now I know.I can't speak for what the OP of the video may or may not know.

I will ask now though, does that Look like a rocket booster to you?

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Cheers one human , i was knackered last night , was dumber than a brainless root vegetable, cheers for the link

funbox

Originally posted by onehuman
reply to post by JimOberg

 

Me asking why the date was so important to you has no bearing on what I know or dont know. I was just curious as to importance to you. Now I know.I can't speak for what the OP of the video may or may not know.

I will ask now though, does that Look like a rocket booster to you?

The photograph was obviously made from the Apollo command module of their booster. The dots surrounding it could have been the kind of junk that surrounds all space boosters in the interval after orbital insertion and separation.

Don't forget these images are scans of hard copies. They were not originally digital.

The manual scanning process has in the past artificially and accidentally engendered all sorts of blips and smears on the new-format image. The people who did the scanning weren't all that careful because they never thought that any small stuff on the scan plate or original print would be so wildly over-interpreted. Too bad.

Basic principle: no 'UFO photo' is any good without direct eyewitness testimony. What do you suppose the flight crew -- go look up their names -- might contribute to understanding this image?

How about other visual material from the same flight phase, such as 16-mm motion film?

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looks like whoever scanned this was eating something with sprinkles on , people should take more pride in their scanning

the amount of objects scattered around this image is suggestive of a rocket stage separation. i wouldn't bet my life on it tho

excuse the large size , but i find it imperative when studying something close, i have added more exposure, to highlight all the objects around ops object .who eats on a scanning mission?,not I

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/3d49b1a278ff.jpg[/atsimg]

also in this heightened exposure picture, its possible to see some more scan anomalies

scanbox

reply to post by funbox


Thanks for the enhanced view. You can even see the separation motor firing on the S4B. See it?

So we not only had a mechanical separation, we had a thruster firing. Sorry, dots onj the screen just aren't impressive ever, especially under such a situation.

Originally posted by JimOberg
reply to post by funbox

 

Thanks for the enhanced view. You can even see the separation motor firing on the S4B. See it?

So we not only had a mechanical separation, we had a thruster firing. Sorry, dots onj the screen just aren't impressive ever, especially under such a situation.

Unbelievably..
I'm going to have to go with Jim O on this. lol
Does look like a separation and thruster firing..
and it's true...
dots on the screen are just not impressive.


But hey..
maybe there is a spaceship somewhere in there, checking it all out.. lol