[bewildered]

Very interesting. I wonder why this news isn't covered by Fox or something.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Remember when Fox News reported the radioactive ship in New York, when NEST was called in? Remember when Fox News reported Alligator Alley? The feds pull the rug out from under them every time and make them look like fools.

[stlnative]

Fox did cover it the other day... but I have not heard any more about it since then. They showed the pictures or video on Fox, and they talked to the guy by phone. He was claiming that it appears that something hit the shuttle and that he could not release anymore information under the request of Nasa, he only said that Nasa was very interested in what he had and that he had sent some of it to them already.

He explained to Fox that he knew someone that knew someone at Nasa and that was how he was getting his information to Nasa. I bet the person mention above is the same guy that Fox talked to the other day. What I saw on FOX made it look like something did hit the shuttle while it was over California (where this person was from who had the pictures or video)

[Lion's Cub]

I first heard of this story on another thread, but this is the first I've seen it.

Late Tuesday, NASA dispatched former shuttle astronaut Tammy Jernigan, now a manager at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, to the San Francisco home of the astronomer to examine his digital images and to take the camera itself to Mountain View, where it was to be transported by a NASA T-38 jet to Houston this morning.

From what I heard earlier, this happened when the shuttle first came over California. Some kind of ground or space-based laser? Something with the design stolen from Livermore? Some experimental thing that was on the aircraft and automatically fired when the shuttle began to overheat?

[MissAmericanPie]

Fox News did show the video, it was strange looking like "ball lightening". Could static electricity build up around the shuttle?

[Indie]

"In addition, a photograph described by The San Francisco Chronicle — but not yet published — reportedly shows a purple streak of light apparently shooting through Columbia. Dittemore told reporters he was aware of the photo."
---from msnbc this morning (fri)