From: Mike Farrell <mikefarr@midcoast.com.au>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:43:28 +1100
Fwd Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:22:52 -0500
Subject: STS-48 UFO Debunked?


Hello UpDates List,

Here's a good reply to the STS-48 Debunked article by James
Oberg. See what you think? Ice crystals or spacecraft?
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:15:43 -0600
To: Mike Farrell <mikefarr@midcoast.com.au>
From: Gary Hart <geehart@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: NASA STS-48 UFO Debunked


Friends,

The charts presented are irrelevant to the discussion of the
motion of the objects observed.

From the lecture by Dr. Jack Kasher, Univ. of Nebraska:

He calculated which thruster was fired out of the forty-eight on
the shuttle. The known thrust produced would not change the view
attitude noticeably.

Five main objects' movements were plotted. the appearance or
disappearance of objects was not in question: the sun's angle
was irrelevant.

The fact that several moving objects _stopped_ for several
frames before the "shot from the ground", then reversed
direction and zipped away in directions and speeds inconsistent
with the thrust plume from the thruster _is_ relevant.

All anomalous object angles, sizes and speeds inconsistent with
characteristics of objects that would be close to the shuttle.

Accelerations for anomalous objects calculated and inconsistent
with time thruster fired and energy emitted.

Need I go on?

Any further comments? Get Dr. Kasher's video and decide for
yourself.

His calculations tell me more than Oberg's blather. I agree with
Dr. Kasher's conclusions.

~Gary

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Date:         Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:42:53 EST
From:         SkeptInq@aol.com
Subject:      Feb 17 NBC Special on STS-48 Debunked
To:           CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM


CSICOP Fellow and Space Program expert James Oberg writes to
inform us:


Subj:         Feb 17 NBC Special on STS-48 Debunked
Date:         99-02-12 18:14:41 EST
From:         JamesOberg@aol.com

With regard to next week's NBC Strieberfest on UFO evidence, the
1991 space shuttle STS-48 zig-zag UFOs are debunked by
newly-obtained NASA records at

http://www.igs.net/~hwt/zigzag.html

but NBC will still act as if they really might be genuine....

London, British Isles
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