[Northern Yankee]

Latest information coming out is that during the initial re-entry phase, NASA started picking up sensor readings that were giving bizarre data on the left wing.

Normally this isn't that unusual, but these sensors were scattered, and independent of each other.

As NASA called back to Columbia to find out what was happening, you got a "Roger" from the crew, and then static.

Couple that, with the insulation coming off during the launch, and hitting the left wing, and things are starting to add up. Maybe...

[FITZ]

I wonder if a meteor could have hit the space shuttle ---I saw a pretty large meteor sometime during the night.