NASA UFOs: STS-75 The Tether Incident

STS-75 Tether Incident

On Sunday, February 25, 1996, the Space Shuttle Columbia deployed an experimental tether into orbit. The experiment was called the Tethered Satellite System (TSS- 1R) and it's purpose of this was to attempt to generate electricity by utilizing Earth's magnetic field.

Unfortunately the tether broke so the experiment was not a success, although approximately five hours of data were recorded.

What really made "The Tether Incident" famous was the appearance of many unidentified flying objects (UFOs) clearly visible in the NASA footage. Conspiracy theorists rejected NASA's explanation of space debris and ice particles...

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Here are some very good video analysis of the footage - http://www.nasas-unknowns.com/STS-75_Video_Analysis.html

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[adsterkav]

Another mission where the camera was outside the shuttle recorded an object moving about a second and a half after the shuttle started its thrusters this object shot off at a remarkable speed. It's position at the time ment that the thrusters did not make that particle accelerate. In space something needs to hit something to make it increase speed and the time delay between the two means this object was not pushed by the shuttles thrusters. Its position proves this

[adsterkav]

Absolutely. Why don't NASA explain themselves properly. I know that the image is being recorded behind multiple layers of the window of the shuttle. I think they have 4 four layers so light coming into the camera is being distorted so many times before it reaches the lens.still amazing to know what is out there.

[MoronAntidote]

@adsterkav

Says who? There is no secresy on NASA missions unless they are DOD related. This mission was not DOD related.

Nothing more than paranoid conjecture.

[MoronAntidote]

@adsterkav

You can demonstrate this with a camera. Nearfield objects which are out of focus become diffuse and transparent, appearing to be behind more distant objects. This is very well known, and there are plenty of demonstrations of the phenomenon here on YT.

[MoronAntidote]

@adsterkav

Once an object is out of focus, it's true shape is lost. Instead you get an image of the lens construction. Components such as snap rings (circlips) create notches in the image. Pulsation is the result of rotation. Space debris and ice usually rotate, and because they're usually irregular in shape, the amount of light they reflect modulates at the frequency of rotation. The shape is lost but the intensity of reflected light remains, so it appears to pulsate.

[MoronAntidote]

@adsterkav

OK, but if you're the sort of person who thinks ANY explanation which contradicts your personal view is an excuse, then there's no point offering an explanation. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who get hung up on this mundane video fall into that category. They don't have respect for science or NASA, and despite having no relevant training, they think they know better. You can't argue with people like that because they're ignorant of their own ignorance.

[adsterkav]

I know with the lens they used on that mission will make any object reflecting light take on the round shape of the mirror used in the camera with the hole at its center even though that object might have been squared shaped for example. There is still the question of pulsating and the piece missing on its edge. Unless the mirror in the camera had that piece missing.

[adsterkav]

Man how does an object go behind the tether. How is that to do with optics distortion when the tether is 60 n miles away. How can something be recorded going behind the tether with the distoration of optics. How?

[adsterkav]

Wow thanks moron. U can't even take a bit of criticism. Im not here to start a stupid argument of words. It's the facts I'm interested in so forgot about these stupid words that we are throwing at each other.I want to know what's going on up there and I hate hearing stupid fucking excuses about what I see and what i am actually looking at.

[MoronAntidote]

@metalguitarZomg2

lol, if you're saying that a spinning object in front of the lens is 3-4 miles in diameter then you need a reality check kid, or perhaps you're a neanderthal who hasn't ever picked up a camera. Notice how the objects only appear this way when the zoom/focus is adjusted, and consider that objects appear smallest when they are in focus. This is proof of simple optical distortion. Accept the facts and quit being ignorant of optical science.