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that would have to to be the worst hoaxed footage i have even seen.
So its big enough to see from miles up in the air, and yet in the sand it is a model...they are standing above it filming, they are not in a helicopter but standing...
Originally posted by Spykemann
I remember seeing this on the news. It was live. I don't know what to make of it.
Originally posted by Lil Drummerboy
That didn't seem to act like a "Fireball streaking across the sky" to me.
That doesn't match
That didn't seem to act like a "Fireball streaking across the sky" to me.
That doesn't match
Once the fireball around the spacecraft died down, a parafoil style of parachute was to have popped out so the capsule could glide gently to the US Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range, southwest of Salt Lake City. There, helicopters were poised to pluck the capsule from mid-air using a long hook.
The Genesis capsule will first emit light due to collisions with air molecules at around 200 km altitude over the Pacific Ocean. The object will be tracked by U.S. Air Force Space Command using ground-based radar. By that time, the capsule has fallen into the Earth's gravity well and has a speed now of 11.0 km/s (at 135 km altitude). It may become visible in the daytime morning sky over Bent, Oregon, when it is still at 125 km altitude. For mission operators this is the moment it enters the atmosphere. It will decellerate and stop emitting light at around 40 km altitude, and a parachute will deploy at 36 km altitude. Once ablation stops and ionization dissipates, the descending capsule will have a UHF beacon that provides gps information.
While quite bright against the deep blue sky at altitude, the SRC entry was hard to observe from the ground. Initial reports from our participating ground teams indicate that the reentry was seen visually against the bright daytime sky, albeit missed by many. It was successfully recorded with a hand-held camcorder by a team of the University of Calgary.