I am frankly disappointed in the gross display of prejudicial, unscientific thinking and willingness to accept unproven hypothoses & erroneous conclusions; after all, its Bad Astronomy. Not to mention, the name-calling is disappointing as well.

I would think that subscribers to “Discover Magazine” would be more willing to …discover, and explore intruiging and mysterious new data. To simply dismiss data, or a hypothesis, just because there happen to be “nutjobs” who believe in ufos, is not at all logical. There are also pulitzer prize winning doctors, professors, scientists, astronauts, etc. who also attest to the existence of extra-terrestrial spacecraft, or ufos.

But to get back to the topic, there are a lot of really compelling videos from NASA (some of it live-feed) that show truly bizarre anomalies. As with “ufos” many of these anomalies aren’t actually anomalies, rather, they represent particle reflections, satellites, debris, etc. But many obviously do not fit these explanations. Now, I’m no astro-physicist, but I know that “they’re just ice crystals” doesn’t cut the mustard for many of the anomalies photographed by NASA.

For instance, the video in question (I believe) is that taken from the Discovery shuttle in 91, which shows a light colored object (or “ice crystal reflection”) seeming to appear in Earth’s atmosphere, travel slowly, slow down and stop right before a flash, and then take off in another direction (seeming to leave the atmosphere & jet out into space). My questions are as follows.
1) How is it physically possible for an ice crystal to change velocity (slowing down and stopping) and direction due to the impact of thrusters or jets.
2) Just after the object stops, there is a flash, and then a beam of some sort that shoots out from the Earth directly toward where the object was prior to jetting away. What is this “beam” that seems to have been aimed in the direction of this object.
3) Since the camera is focused on infinity, as it is apparantly focused on the far away Earth, how would an object of any moderate size very near the shuttle show up, as such, on camera? We can see that when the camera pans down to the shuttle bay, everything is blurry until the camera focuses on close-range.

If anyone can offer me an explanation that is logical and physically possible, I would gladly accept it. Sure, its not as fun as government Star Wars equipment shooting at giant ufos, but I’m all about finding the TRUTH (whether its unbelievably strange OR undeniably boring). I discuss this NASA video, (as well as the multitude of astronauts who claim to have seen alien spacecraft) on my humorous blog, What’s Up With Aliens. Feel free to comment “politely” on any of my posts, at whatsupwithaliens.blogspot.com

This has been a truly invigorating discussion!! Let’s keep our eyes and our minds open.

Clearly, quite a lot of the people on here know what they’re talking about – those were pretty good descriptions I read of the behaviour of gasses in a vacuum. And, just so you know, there are those of us with a pretty good attention span. I read all 226 posts, because I found it, y’know…interesting. Then again, it’s easy to criticise those who are clearly quite clever – they’re just so downright threatening, aren’t they?

Indy

How do you know they’re leprechauns, and not mostly-invisible pink unicorns? Where’s your evidence?

*hehe* Leprechauns.