[Timesink]

Doesn't this add credence to the Arab / Muslim notion that the shuttle was divinely destroyed, as a rebuke to the United States?

No.

[Krafty123]

Ok I think I now what happened (donning tin foil)... The "elves"/"sprites" are actually manifestations of sentient beings, who became upset of having had been documented in such a public fashion. Worried, they attempted to make an example out of Columbia; in an attempt to deter research in their direction... /sarcasm