Okay, so my suspicions were correct, the fuel tank is, in fact, jettisoned as the shuttle-tank system reaches escape velocity (which is before escape
is achieved), and the tank does fall until it burns up (or most of it does).
This means that the video is of the tank and the object falling down, probably in a kind of spiral-type-quasi-orbit motion around the earth to
increase it's exposure to the friction forces (by the way, that's my d) from my previous post
)
So if we can define a co-ordinate system at every point (or at least at the main points) of the video, we can see if the "strange" object
accelerates in a dimension that it shouldn't at any time during the fall.
I posit that this would be very difficult to do, seeing as how the perspective of view point isn't obvious. We'd have to define position vectors
for the camera, tank and object and impose those on a single coordinate system.
We could then take the integrals for their velocities and accelerations.
Only then could we be sure that the oddly shaped object was under acceleration other than that possible by benign, external forces.
What I'm saying basically, is that it would take a lot to prove that the non-tank object is operating under it's own acceleration. It isn't
readily obvious from just looking at it and it would be hard to discern in a rigorous manner.
That said, I don't consider myself a "debunker"; that video from Tallahassee convinced me absolutely as to the reality of UFOs. I just can't see
that this is one.
Going to bed now. Someone smack me if I'm off here, I've been studying with a Halloween hang-over all day and evening.
[edit on 2-11-2007 by angst18]
I wonder 
Also, thanks for your insight on altitude, though I still think your mostly way to
far out there in the other areas. 
