[mikegi]

The pictures, taken with a Nikon 8 camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage, but the photographer, who asked not to be identified, will not make them public immediately.

What's the point of keeping the photos private? Anyway, I wonder if there is a way to know if the "lightning bolt" was going towards the Columbia or came from the Columbia itself. If it was an electrical discharge of some kind, it seems like it would have caused problems that would have been detected by sensors in the electrical system.

[rintense]

Didn't NASA debunk the whole 'it broke apart over California' story saying the flashes that were seen were plasma flashes?

[L`enn]

What's the point of keeping the photos private? His agent is still in the process of negotiations I am sure.

[ladyinred]

My guess is he is keeping them private until the proper agencies can see them. I would certainly think these would be turned over to NASA. They may have asked him not to show them.