Astronaut heard saying "We still have the alien space craft under observance"**Audio Only**, page 1

Originally posted by sickofitall2012
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I find it funny that everyone commenting on this said this is a hoax, well NASA admitted to it finally, but said it was just a joke. Yeah right, I guess that's why they said go to a secure line after that was said. They would not go to a secure line for the word orbiting either.

At first NASA denied everything, when they realised they couldn't deny an actual recording, they acknowledged it was real – but said it was a joke. Anyone who's heard the recording will no doubt attest that the astronaut did not seem to be in a funny mood. A transmission heard but not recorded by an amateur radio operator in Ohio just before the 'spacecraft under observance' message is alleged to have been an astronaut telling NASA that "We have a fire". 'Fire', it's widely assumed, was a code word for UFO. Yet another radio operator claims to have then heard NASA tell the shuttle to switch to another frequency.

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www.ken-welch.com...

Most folks get wiser and better informed as they age -- it's the only advantage to aging -- but I guess not around here. Instead, you keep repeating, with added garbles, all the original nonsense your naive younger minds sucked in when you were particularly susceptible to exciting-sounding nonsense.

The 'under observation' tape, originally made by Donald Ratsch of MUFON, was repudiated by Ratshc himself a few years later. Part of the problem is that internet sites lied when they said it was recorded off a space shuttle transmission. It actually was recrded off a ham radio club rebroadcast of a shuttle transmission, on a ham radio band -- a frequency that hundreds of people within range of the transmitter could also work. Nobody else but Ratsch heard it, so he later figured it had originated locally as a prank, especially when, he reported, he heard the same voice making a similar comment during a later shuttle flight.

The fact that Ratsch's recantation of a story that he originated -- a correction that shows his good character and honesty, which is why it's so rare in this field -- cannot be located, or is ignored, by UFO websites promoting the original story, os a condemnation of the integrity of those websites, and of the judgment of people who blindly believe them.

The 'joke' story deals with a comment by Cathy Coleman about having a UFO in view, a comment she made from the spacelab module (which has no windows nor exterior-monitoring TV screens) and was later embarrassed to admit was a joke about another astronaut's handsome butt moving down the transfer tunnel from the shuttle cabin. She survived the reprimand and is not assigned to a forthcoming space station mission.