[TXnMA]

Read my #2. The fact that the bright (flare) shape of the "tail object" is always identical in shape to the bright upper triangle of the so-called "rear-view shuttle" confirns that the whole thing is a camera aperture flare artifact.

You are fooling yourself (as I was for a while). Go look at FreedomCalls' #126 on this thread -- and then re-read point 2 of my #108 here. That ain't any a$$-on shuttle you're looking at -- it is a camera-aperture distortion artifact of a bright point light source!

[r9etb]

That ain't any a$$-on shuttle you're looking at -- it is a camera-aperture distortion artifact of a bright point light source!

Which just happens to look exactly like a Shuttle, right down to the OMS pods. Riiiighht.