[July 4th]

I'll have to agree with that. I don't think this is the shuttle sideways, but something really bright playing tricks on the camcorder.

If the shuttle were turned sideways, I think it would have disintegrated in a fraction of a second in a huge ball of fire. The airframe was not designed to travel 90 degrees off-axis on reentry.

[arkady_renko]

Umm... The craft was at something like 40 miles from the camera. No consumer grade hand held video camera is going to give you a close-up image of an object the size of a couple of busses from that distance.

A_R