space shuttle shotdown?

A debunking/mythbusting of the infamous "shuttle downed by lightning or alien laser" photo.

My Columbia Multimedia Webpage- http://www.chrisvalentines.com/sts107/index.html
Link to the video I shot of Columbia's end- http://www.chrisvalentines.com/sts107/reentrypage.html
Accident Board Final Report- http://caib.nasa.gov/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• space
• shuttle
• shot
• down
• lightning
• purple
• streak
• photo
• columbia
• laser
• beam
• UFO
• aliens
• sts
• 107
• reentry
• corkscrew

[hiddenthink]

Good call on the shudder thing. So who shot her down then?

[nomie1961]

External tank foam broke free on launch...broke a hole in the wing.

Techincal man caused error...nothing shot it down.

[matadorxpress]

i haven't see the actual pictures but it is said that the plasma lightning keeps the same sequence. so everytime he shot a picture, he started always from the left side moved little to the right and then took the next shot again exactly from left side but moved a little further to the right and so on? what awesome photographer! remember that there were 5 pictures though. you just showed us 1 can you explain the sequence of those 5 pictures?

[victronex]

@hiddenthink how the hell could anything in the world shoot something traveling that fast?

[TheLegendizCody]

I think it all made since until i saw the Youtube video with the guy at the end. The Object in question appears to move parallel to the shuttle which wouldn't happen. When he pressed the shutter button it the object would have been screwed up at first but would have ended up directly behind the shuttle by the end of the shot.