Did you see the NASA video that shows a bolt of energy from the earth narrowly miss..

Lancer · October 14, 2003, 17:31

...what appeared to be a UFO? It was taken from above as part of a constant video feed.

Looked real to me...

Ned · October 14, 2003, 17:36

Link?

Paul Hanson · October 14, 2003, 17:44

Yeah, I vaguely remember that from some show or other. Nice if it was real, but sadly there's probably a perfectly rational explanation for it.

Lancer · October 14, 2003, 17:49

Ned, sorry...I've seen it twice now on the tube but have no link to it on the internet. Don't know how to search for such a thing. Any ideas?

Paul, I wouldn't buy any 'rational explanation'. That was a bolt of energy fired at a UFO, which changed direction to avoid the energy. That's what it was. No weather balloon in sight!

Ned · October 14, 2003, 17:52

OK, what channel was carrying the report or story or whatever.

chequita guevara · October 14, 2003, 17:56

THe SciFi Channel?

Lancer · October 14, 2003, 18:01

The first time was of the NASA channel, and they were explaining that it was not what it obviosly was. The second time was on a UFO type show.

Che, nope, not SciFi.

I'm telling you guy, looked like someone was blasting away at a UFO. The only object moving, in space, and this enegy bolt comes up a second after it jogged.

Lancer · October 14, 2003, 19:41

Found it Ned!

http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/videoclips/sts48.qt

I'm downloading it now but it takes a while w/ the slow connection I have. Click on the shuttle pic to begin download.

Lancer · October 14, 2003, 19:43

On second thought, maybe that's an old video. I'll let you know, and keep searching if it turns out not to be it.

Lancer · October 14, 2003, 19:47

That's the one, check it out.

ravagon · October 14, 2003, 19:58

If thats the one I think it is (sorry, can't download right now) then if it is an actual weapon its like no weapon thats ever been hinted at.
It isn't a missile/rail gun and its certainly not photonic or a charged particle beam which, realistically, leaves some sort of pulsed plasma weapon.

ie: Its not us shooting at the little grey guys.
Its the tall blue guys shooting at the little grey guys from one of their subterranean bases.
Not very sociable but then the tall blue guys never are really.

Winston · October 14, 2003, 19:59

1978 Asteroids arcade game. Somebody just hit the Hyper Space button.

realpolitic · October 14, 2003, 21:37

I guess pissing off everyone on earth isn't enough for the neocons.

Theben · October 15, 2003, 00:33

Bad '50's b film?

geeslaka · October 15, 2003, 03:20

I hate when people remind me of that.
Stupid trigger happy fool firing too soon. If he had just waited a few seconds longer, all of our cannons would have been lined up to fire, but no, he had to try for the glory and shoot early. Bastard could have cost us the war for letting that enemy scout get away like that. He was executed for his treasonous crime shortly after this film.

Nubclear · October 15, 2003, 03:23

Chinese bastards

JohnT · October 15, 2003, 09:19

So watching a few of the tens of thousands of pieces of space junk floating around up there is proof of the existance of aliens?

Lancer...

Harry Seldon · October 15, 2003, 09:32

http://abovetopsecret.com/pages/sts48.html

Quote:

Chinese bastards

Actually a joint US-Australian base.

The diplomat · October 15, 2003, 10:16

The video is piss poor. No evidence of UFOs here. Moving on...

chequita guevara · October 15, 2003, 10:23

Az · October 15, 2003, 10:37

Erm are you sure that this is legit video from a shuttle? If so, than yes, these look like aliens.

centrifuge · October 15, 2003, 11:23

I've seen this video on TV several times. It is supposedly from NASA files. Considering the video technology available at the onset of spaceflight, it's not surprising that it's of such horrible quality.

If it's legit, then it isn't easilly explained...

Harry Seldon · October 15, 2003, 11:26

It was explained as ice particles interacting with tiny thrusters used to keep the shuttle on course. The problem with that explanation is how the objects could move in different directions.

Lancer · October 15, 2003, 12:59

Then we're all agreed, aliens exist and the war is on.

What now?

The Andy-Man · October 15, 2003, 13:55

It was me, I had just eaten a rather hot currey, and i couldn't really control myself.

Then my mate asked me to put a match to one, but we could find any mathces and he got out his dads blowtorch and....

Ned · October 15, 2003, 13:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
It was explained as ice particles interacting with tiny thrusters used to keep the shuttle on course. The problem with that explanation is how the objects could move in different directions.

It appears as if something hit the ice particle. We see a flash just at the time the ice particle takes off. Note also that after the thrusters fire, another ice particle that was stationary begins to move away from the spacecraft, but not in the same trajectory as the thruster blast. This indicates that the thruster is angled relative to the axis of the spacecraft and explains why the "angles" are different between the particles and the thruster blast.