NASA UFO STS-120 External Fuel Tank

Originally posted by Solarskye


Yes ufo's have been here for along time. Here's one that's just coming out of TopSecret society.

Top Secret Stealth Jet Revealed ( Bird Of Prey )

There's the U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk

Northrop Tacit Blue, UAV"s, Aurora, Blackstar, and alot more of them that we won't know about for a long time. Come on, give us humans more credit than that. ET's I haven't seen, but all those secret ufo's of our topsecret military just keep popping up.

Originally posted by topsailgrl
This is my very first post. Have been reading for a VERY long time.

I watched this footage over and over and I for some reason am seeing something a little different that no one has mentioned so far.

If you watch the video from this link:

spaceflight.nasa.gov...

And stop it at exactly 28 seconds you can see that the object is NOT crystal, ice, trident, or lightening shaped. This object is actually triangular shaped and possibly reflecting light making it appear oddly shaped.

Most of the object seems to be almost transparent until at the 28 second mark on the footage where the sunlight and clouds reflect the true shape.

Originally posted by nightmare_david
Here's video of STS-115 taking off. It was shot from a camera on the external tank.

YouTube Link

At 1:47 the small boosters detach. You don't see any huge debris anywhere.

At 2:08 it jumps further ahead into the launch, but you can see how much further ahead they are because you see more of Earth in the background.

At 2:17 the shuttle detaches from the external tank. No large ice chunks or anything seen anywhere and you can clearly make out what's holding th shuttle to the tank. It actually looks like nothing much attaches the shuttle to the tank and nothing comes off the tank when the shuttle detaches

I don't know how much higher they are from the time the small boosters detach to the time the external tank detaches, but I don't think you'd see the small boosters anywhere from the shuttle.

Also I want to bring up again that the crystal object has to be huge, possibly bigger than the tank itself. It casts a shadow on clouds and the tank doesn't. Which puts the object under the tank and look how big it is then. Side by side that would make it bigger than the tank. How would a piece of ice that big form on that tank (or the shuttle) and come off without at least punturing the tank (or the shuttle) somewhere?

They said a small chunk of foam busted a hole in the shuttles wing. Imagine what a piece of ice the same size as that piece of foam would do.

Originally posted by bigvig316
I don't see anything that we can conclusivly call a UFO, there seems to be what looks like a crystalin structure out there but it was brief and could be explained away as junk floating around out there. In the 50 years of space flight, I am sure we have left some stuff behind. Plus there what look to be dots flying around which could logicily be aircraft many mile below the faster moving external fuel tank.

Originally posted by bigvig316
reply to post by wierdalienshiznit

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I have re watched the video several times. As I stated before there is nothing on there that could be alien craft or extra terrestrial. There were however, several small white dots that seem to cut acoss the fuel tank. but by the way they moved, it looks like something broke or feel off the front of the tank and move quickly out of frame as it where ice condensation and broke off as it was re entering the troposhper. the last white dot at approx. 4 minute mark could easily be a plane or jet much lower in the atmosphere, as I previously stated. the only thing that could be confused as a ufo is a strech. the crystalin like object. but when it turns and list laisily out of fram looks like a long hose or rope that is floating as space junk.

I am sorry my friend, you imagenation may be getting the better of you. I want to believe like the rest of the world, but I am afraid this video will not due.

Originally posted by verylowfrequency
A video well worth posting, but further research would be required before I would classify the object as anything other than part of the jettisoned tank or ice built up during fueling.

I watched it the first time on the NASA channel and I didn't notice the crystalline looking object, though I have no doubt the object is there & not added in later.

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The crystal object appears to be falling with the tank and may be taking a bit different course because it's aerodynamically dissimilar to the tank. Likely its a huge piece of ice that formed somewhere between the shuttle debris & the fuel tank and was kept from falling off until the tank separation.

As the tank & object are still shedding off speed after just minutes before being released by the shuttle, thus have not yet built up enough friction to burn or melt.

Likely NASA would be happy to give you an explanation, unless it is indeed something far out or unknown.

Still a good post & I personally find it spectacular, but then again I've traveled thousands of miles just to watch a launch or two.

Originally posted by Solarskye
reply to post by wierdalienshiznit

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Your guess is as good as mine on this one. What could it be? I seen it go through the clouds and the shadow you talk about almost looks like a different but same kind of thing. I just wish there was more time on the video to see if it was another one. At first I thought it might be some white cables because they rerouted some cables on the ISS, but now I don't know.
It was definetly lower to the clouds than the fuel tank was. Who know's maybe nasa is letting us get a glimpse of whatever these may be on purpose.

Originally posted by verylowfrequency
I don't see any evidence that the crystal object goes behind the clouds. What I see is an object that is very similar in color to the clouds and a white object on a white background appears to go behind the clouds because you no longer have a reference of blue ocean and thus the object looks as though it going under or through the clouds, but that is just an optical illusion - in my opinion.

At this point I don't see enough evidence to believe otherwise.

As far as seeing the object twice. Another illusion is created because the camera is constantly zooming & panning therefore the camera brings the object back into view, not the object flying back into view. Still there's the possibility that the object may change speeds while tumbling faster in the one position and more drag in another just like air brakes on an aircraft wing can slow and aircraft when in the deployed position and speed the aircraft when not.

[edit on 3-11-2007 by verylowfrequency]