There's no such thing as a NASA UFO, page 4

The facts about the tether/swarm have been available for twenty years [spoiler alert -- the dots WERE out-of-focus ice flakes]: www.rense.com...

The bizarre-looking tether and swarming dots video continues to fascinate viewers, particularly those who have been deliberately kept ignorant of fundamental context features of the event. The UFO community has been willfully woefully incomplete in its internet descriptions of the event, with the apparent intent to mislead their audience. A fuller set of relevant contextual information can be found at www.jamesoberg.com...

First and most important, the swarm sequence occurred four days -- FOUR DAYS – after the breakaway [the fake impression that the edited version clearly intended to make was that the swarm showed up quickly in response to the break]. This was after the tether had fallen behind the shuttle in its orbit, and the faster shuttle pulled so FAR ahead that like a fast race car on an oval track, it 'lapped' the slower tether and overtook it from behind. During this time, the shuttle crew started other experiments and resumed normal orbit housekeeping activities, such as routine waste water dumps. THAT is what the deception about the length of the interval was meant to conceal.

Proof of the four-day separation can be seen in these daily video reports of the mission:
Flight Day 4 Video Highlights [Tether Deploy] www.youtube.com...
Flight Day 5 Video Highlights [Tether Break/Flyaway] www.youtube.com...
Flight Day 9 Video Highlights [Tether Fly-Under with debris] www.youtube.com...

As the shuttle overtook the tether, there were hours of observation time as they neared it and passed below [and off to the side] of it. Occasional blizzards of dots can be seen in this interval as ice flakes from that day’s water dump broke free and drifted off. Normal behavior of these small particles, entrained by thruster plumes or other cabin gas releases, affected by the slight but still measurable air drag [when out of the shuttle’s slipstream], and possibly pushed by micro-jetting from sun-side sublimation, can be seen in this video of a routine water dump. [Debris with curved trajectories] youtu.be...

The crew had time on the fly-by to get really good 70-mm handheld photography of the tether, and there were some dots in the images too. These views showed the tether hair-thin, and the dots as fuzzy out-of-focus objects that must have been within a few feet of the overhead window.

The notches on the disks is another proof they are a camera artifact. First, they don’t appear at all on the much sharper 70-mm film images [another reason the UFO hucksters hope you don’t find out about them]. Second, the notch ‘clocking’ [orientation around the rim] is always the same for ALL disks passing through the same on-screen position, and shifts exactly the same way for every disk passing the same path. So it’s an internal camera optics effect. See www.youtube.com...

Since there is no connection between the tether break and the dot swarm sequence, the obvious question would be why the dots waited to show up until the shuttle caught up with the lost tether -- because if they had been there all along and were really as big as some UFO promoters claimed, they would have been big and bright enough to have been seen in the daytime skies of Earth as they passed across hundreds of millions of witnesses.

Do the math, they would have been as big as the full moon. Nobody saw them. That's because the dots were associated with the nearby SHUTTLE, not the distant tether.

The crew saw that the dots were close [and thus small] with their own two eyes. Binocular vision is an accurate range determinator out to tens of feet, perhaps as far as a hundred – as any baseball outfielder can demonstrate every game.

Nothing went BEHIND the tether. The video cameras observing it were ruggedized external units designed for monitoring crew spacewalk activities in the payload bay, in normal visible light. Because of the enormous range of brightness that would be encountered, the pixels were designed to protect the cabin TV displays by using a ‘max out’ limit of brightness, and peg ‘high’ at light gray. So anything bright crossing a zone that’s ALREADY ‘overbright’ isn’t going to change the pixel max level, it’s already as high as allowed. Hence the illusion of being eclipsed by a far-fatter-than-reality tether image. Also, in the camera itself, very bright pixels would bleed over to neighboring ones, making all bright objects [stars, satellites, cities, lightning, anything] slightly wider on screen, as seen by the artificial ‘fatness’ of the tether image [which was sunlit, NOT ‘glowing’ on its on]. The Mission Control console operating manual of this camera is shown at www.jamesoberg.com...

This information may be shocking to you. There's proof of it all available [just suppressed on UFO websites]. The reason it was withheld from you is obvious – to push viewers into an inaccurate assessment of the video. They and millions of other folks were victims of a deliberate UFO industry fraud. And it was so easy for them.