Strange Object Floating Outside The ISS

Guys, here's something that'll probably make you burn midnight oil! Here’s an image of the ISS. Do you notice anything strange here? Like something floating outside the ISS?



No? Ok, now check out this second pic which has been enhanced a trifle by adding contrast and brightness. Now do you see it?



Zoomed...



More....


I can't for the life of me figure out what that object is. Reflection from inside the Space Shuttle? ISS Module that's become unattached? Which one? Both seem improbable. The texture too is totally different from that of the ISS. UFO? So what do you guys think?

Courtesy: Mikesingh

a reply to: OrionHunterX

Do you have a link to the original image preferably a high definition image?

a reply to: OrionHunterX


Who/What took that photo from such a distance, and when?

a reply to: carewemust

And that is the question!. Odd perspective and definitely an odd object.

a reply to: Outlier13

You can find it HERE

Taken from inside Endeavour, so I’d hazard a guess it’s just a reflection

a reply to: Chadwickus

Zuma? Is time frame right?

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Outlier13

You can find it HERE

Taken from inside Endeavour, so I’d hazard a guess it’s just a reflection

Thank-you for the link. Maybe someone on ATS (with the skill) will be able to verify that the stealthy object really is in the original photo.

originally posted by: carewemust

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Outlier13

You can find it HERE

Taken from inside Endeavour, so I’d hazard a guess it’s just a reflection

Thank-you for the link. Maybe someone on ATS (with the skill) will be able to verify that the stealthy object really is in the original photo.

Yep! It's in the original here. Click to enlarge to hi res......

spaceflight.nasa.gov...

It's a turboencabulator unit.

originally posted by: pavil
a reply to: Chadwickus

Zuma? Is time frame right?

Certainly could be since it was launched last Sunday even though it supposedly "failed to launch into orbit".

Gotta' make the Kim think he's still safe.

a reply to: pavil

Ah, no.

This photo was taken in 2001

a reply to: skunkape23

lol...do you mean the original machine that had a base plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan? The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.

a reply to: OrionHunterX

If that is an object outside the ISS, then what about all the other "objects" in the lower corner of the image?

They've been shooting the photos from inside of the shuttle through a window. Dirt, scratches, reflections on the window will show up in the photo depending on the lighting situation.

Here an extreme example, a photo through the aft flight deck window:
spaceflight.nasa.gov...

a reply to: Outlier13

I also thought that story was BS

a reply to: moebius

I’ll go you one better, here’s another shot from the same sequence...didn’t quite come out as planned, looks like they forgot to turn the flash off..

Link

a reply to: OrionHunterX

Your foreign object is Kim Jung Un. His slaves, after extensive field instruction, reportedly denied his request to orbit the earth with a full buffet. After strapping disbelievers to an AA gun, the remaining scientists strapped Kim to a rocket with a rotisserie chicken. The end result is a blurry image that looks like a fat guy with a chicken leg...

originally posted by: Outlier13
a reply to: skunkape23

lol...do you mean the original machine that had a base plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan? The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.

Lol!!

Man! This is an English site not Greek!!

a reply to: OrionHunterX

It looks like that Cytherian probe from the Argus Array, I'd hazard a guess that contact with it will result in super-genius skills and an ability to travel great distances in an instant.

It also looks like an old blow-out preventer from the early days of oil & gas exploration..

Is it a reflection?

originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: OrionHunterX
Is it a reflection?

Robot parrot if you use your imagination. The graduation cap... the eerie eye... the open beak... raised claw attempting to clasp the truth!

On skiis!!!!

a reply to: OrionHunterX

Looks like a blurred reflection from something inside the shuttle