Rick Deckard
Paranormal Maven
Apologies if this link is in the mammoth thread...
Is this genuine or CGI?
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Rick Deckard said:Apologies if this link is in the mammoth thread...
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Is this genuine or CGI?
Rick Deckard said:The reason I posted it was that after reading about the first 6 or 7 pages of the 'big' thread, I noticed that you were heading down the 'stealth blimp' avenue - I didn't see any mention of BTs in space only sightings near the ground...so that's why it caught my eye.
I suppose we *have* to assume it's CGI as there's no info about which shuttle mission or elapsed mission time etc...
Tom Levine said:On to your point: It's probably more reasonable to call it a probable hoax for now, but only until someone digs up more information about this video to validate it. If it gets validated, than that assumption will have to be thrown out completely (unless Hoagland argues that it's NASA CGI). If the video can be proven authentic, then all bets are off. If it's real, I guess we'll have to go study satellite footage, and make comparisons. If it's real, it sure looks like a triangular shaped craft to me.
ORFEUS-SPAS II, a free-flying satellite, will be deployed and retrieved using the Space Shuttle Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS). The goal of this astrophysics mission is to investigate the rarely explored far- and extreme-ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and study the very hot and very cold matter in the universe.
ASTRO-SPAS is a carrier designed for launch, deployment and retrieval by the Space Shuttle. Once deployed from the Shuttle's RMS, ASTRO-SPAS will operate quasi-autonomously for 14 days in the vicinity of the Shuttle. The carrier's inclination will be 28.4 degrees with an altitude of 218 statute miles (351 km). After completion of the free flight phase, the satellite will be retrieved by the RMS, returned to the Shuttle cargo bay and returned to Earth.
The free-flying Wake Shield Facility (WSF-3) will be making its third flight into orbit. The Facility is a 12 foot (3.7 m) diameter, free-flying stainless steel disk designed to generate an "ultra-vacuum" environment in space in which to grow semiconductor thin films for use in advanced electronics. The STS-80 astronaut crew will deploy and retrieve the WSF during the 16 day mission using Columbia's "robot arm," or Remote Manipulator System.
Rick Deckard said:Okay, according to Wikipedia, on the STS-80 mission they launched 3 pieces of hardware and later retrieved at least 1 -
Satellite No 1:
Image of ORFEUS-SPAS II
Satellite No 2:
Experimental Hardware 1:
Details about the Wake Shield
I'm already wondering if that video might actually show one of the above pieces of hardware...
A.LeClair said:It looks like 3 different objects over just being one. At the end it kinda looks like the common triangle. That is if I'm looking in the right place. It doesn't look cgi to me. And if it was it would probably be more impressive. It doesn't hurt to keep cgi as a possibilty though.
Rick Deckard said:There's quite a few other bits floating around in that footage, so I'm of the opinion that this is probably 3 pieces of debris reflecting the sun and that they just happened to form a triangle at that precise moment in time - after all, what *other* formation could they form?
It's not conclusive but I think I'd need to see clearer video before looking at this one again...