Sound off caller say she has mini cassette from Space Shuttle Columbia

Earlier this week, The Daily Sentinel received a recorded message on its anonymous call-in comment and news tip line from what sounded to be a middle-aged female claiming to have intimate knowledge of an audio recording that may hold clues as to what went wrong during re-entry, causing the shuttle to break apart over East Texas on Feb. 1.

Portion of call...
"Could you please give me the shuttle discovery number that I'm supposed to call if I find something? I found a mini-cassette -- (potentially sensitive information has been deleted here) -- and I think this needs to go back to NASA. I need the number please."

Source Daily Sentinel

The Daily Sentinel Newspaper is in east Texas Town of Nacogdoches.


My Take...

I hope she makes several copies of it.
NASA is going to only release an edited version of the tape if anything to the public I suspect.
As deletion of "potentially" sensitive information has already begun.

How much ya wanna bet that she will be arrested when located?

[Edited on 13-6-2003 by MiStErBeLLaTrIx]

I hope she made a copy too...

I especially liked this:

"Our judgment is that this female is credible," he said.

The NASA engineer called her "this female"...what a geek!

"If we acquire this tape, we would treat it like an investigation," Whittle said. "We would take the tape out of the case set itself to clean it and then play it in that manner."


Oops.. You pushed the erase button dumb-ass!

Yeah, I'm sure they're going to "clean" it right up....