Alright. I've watched the video a few times now:

There's a whole flurry of objects breaking off the fuel tank (frozen particles), they're tiny in comparison. Since the fuel tank is moving pretty fast they're only there for 1-3 frames before they're completely gone (behind) the tank. Those aren't really interesting, that happens all the time. If you watch the shuttle launch(s) all the way up to the part where they break off from the fuel tank, you'll see the same particles.

I only found one thing extremely "odd" and that was the half snowflake spinning steadily. It holds true: In every STS video there's always something interesting to be seen. The only thing I wasn't able to witness was the frequenting UFO that's in all of the UV range videos they take. This wasn't in that visual range though, I don't think.

Oh well, cool video, nice find! Flagged.

I would like to echo what another poster wrote in their call that we need to have video FROM THE SOURCE (NASA) not LiveLeak or YouTube. And if the "snowflake" doesn't appear in that video, the first person to say "airbrushed out" gets punched right in the face!

I think it is a giant snowflake as they are often symetrical like this and its very cold ins oapace

Originally posted by dreb13
Are the liveleak video and the slowed down google video from the same mission?

No liveleak is STS 120 and the google slow motion is STS 115

Cool finding.. looks like a bunch of aliens skydiving together.. maybe stratodiving. new form of aliensports. flagged

Did anyone notice how the nasa commentator lady paused breifly when she saw the object and then went on with her script as if nothing was happening?

Kind of reminds me of the crystaline entity from Star Trek:TNG.

There are several things falling with the tank, thats for sure.

My guess would be ice or foam from the SRB falling with the tank for the smaller items in the video

And iced over electrical connectors / liguid fuel hoses that come off the orbiter during main tank seperation and they tangled up.

Cool video!

That would be cool if they were alien craft. It is just reflections on the window. Sorry to inform you of the banality of your existance.

Originally posted by Irma
Not quite as pretty as the others, but here's another. If you keep the volume turned up, the 'commentator' says it's ice crystals in this one. Strange how he doesn't say it's a reflection!

[edit on 1/11/2007 by Irma]

Hmm.. It's less solid compared to the other (It's falling with seperate pieces), and more thick (the one in this topic really looks like a construction of rods, rather than sheets)

[edit on 1/11/07 by -0mega-]

I don't think that's a UFO, rather some fuel residue from the tank that got frozen or something. Nothing spectacular there IMO.

Ok how did they gets such a good close up of it? Thats definitely not the same object as before as far as I'm concerned. If it was it would still be falling away from the shuttle which would be even farther away than in the first shot making it even harder to zoom in on it correct?

Great post! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. So much going on in that video. I'm interested in "HAARP Clouds" mentioned on LiveLeak-
"As a bonus,
notice how the cameraman pans away at around 120s
to avoid filming the ongoing paticalization [sic] operation. However, the scalar HAARP clouds are clearly evident during the zoom out at 144s."

The camera man does seem to abruptly and knowingly pan away from the scene. Interesting stuff.