Possible UFO in Space Shuttle Video, page 2

Originally posted by IAttackPeople
Could be one of the observation/chase planes aloft during shuttle landings.

Yes --

NASA uses the Shuttle Training Aircraft which is a Gulfstream II (military designation C-II) to check the weather conditions around the landing site just prior to landing.

This is a speacially fit-out aircraft that can simulate the manner in which the shuttle flies (for training purposes) and is also fitted with equipment that can indicate potential wind-shear patterns. This plane is always flown during shuttle landings. NASA has four of them, and at least one is Kept at Kennedy and one is kept at Edwards for landings (perhaps one is kept at White Sands, but I'm not sure).

It is my understanding that the Gulfstream C-II aircraft is still in the air (but out of the way) while the shuttle makes its final approach and landing. So even though the OP's second post said that the military stated that they were not testing planes at Edwards that day, that does not rule out the planes that are required to fly during shuttle landings.

Here are pictures of the Gulfstream C-II...in fact one of these pictures shows the plane in flight while the shuttle is landing:

www.globalsecurity.org...




[edit on 1/5/2009 by Soylent Green Is People]

reply to post by David Skylar

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Could be anything. You realize that the camera is zoomed in all the way, so there is a lot of airspace between it and the shuttle. Any object at any distance capable of streaking that quickly could have done that. I don't see why people dismiss birds or bugs. The shape of the object must be affected by motion blurring, so that is not the true shape of the object, but a rather elongated and blurry version of its original shape.

-rrr

reply to post by David Skylar

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The shuttle wingspan is 78 ft (24 M), the object (for want of a better term) travelled aprox four - four and a half times this distance, at right angle to the shuttle, estimated from the video of course.

This means the object was travelling somewhere between 50 - 70 miles per hour.

(object appears to travel 4 - 4.5 times the shuttle wingspan, when in view. The shuttle wingspan is 78 ft. Round that up to 80 feet, we get 320 ft estimated, total distance travelled while object in view (4 seconds).

320 ft. / 4 seconds in view = 80 (approx) feet per second rate of speed. This is only about 55 Mph.

There are many species of bird that can and do fly at these speeds, and MUCH higher speeds routinely.

Of course, all this assumes the object is fairly close to the shuttle.

NOW then...IF this 'object' is much further away, behind the shuttle, then things get very interesting. It now means we are looking at a 'bird', up to anything from a falcon size going up to 200 mph to miles in size, travelling at thousands of mph!

Probably a falcon.

spikey.

If you put &fmt=18 at the end of the link of a youtube video, it makes the video in higher quality.
Click here to view the high quality version of the video.
To me it looks like a disk. But we can't make that conclusion just yet.

reply to post by David Skylar

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YEP THE WAY IT WAS MOVEING __i no my ships GRAVITY PULLING POWER ---SPEED--OF--LITE-

I still say its a bug up close and blurry the camera is focused at a good distance away.

reply to post by David Skylar

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Hi all,
Well beyond the bird, rod and airplane ideals, i beleive we have seen this type of craft before. I can not remember his name but it was the dude that had his alien or what ever in his freezer. There was a arm bracelet he sent to japan and his dog was turned into white powder. In his footage there is a black torpedow looking craft with striaght edges on it.
My two cents.
Cheers,
Kitos

It may be true that the video quality is not good enough to positively identify it as a plane, but the video quality is also not good enough to rule out a plane.

And since we know planes such as this one:

www.globalsecurity.org...

are flying around the landing site during shuttle landings, I see no evidence that points to this being anything other than a plane.

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