Shuttle Commander Spots Mysterious Objects | NASA's Unexplained Files

space shuttle Atlantis prepares to come home its crew has spent the last 12 days assembling the International Space Station then something happens that no one expects get that ladder that the day before the shuttle returns back to earth the commander reports kind of sighting something that he's not seen before in a kind of reflective gutter mission control asks commander Brent Jett to describe what he sees that definitely not rigid or it's not a you know solid metal structure that look like anything I've ever seen on the outside of the shuttle that's returned Mission Control take remote control of the payload Bay camera that's when things start really get interesting okay we're seeing three or four objects now there are there are three objects strangely enough at that point you have multiple objects three you know two more that join in essentially form some sort of triangular formation for 20 minutes Atlantis tracks the flashing lights across the sky beaming images back to Mission Control they're going over the video that you guys shut down videos looked at right away and engineers jump on it right away find out what it is when news of the sightings reaches the media it causes a sensation everyone's buzzing about these three objects that were seen we're awash with stories about unexplained craft but when you get these from astronauts you pay a little bit more attention in the lore of water termed unidentified flying objects one of the most iconic shapes and all of that is the triangle so this fits the bill based on the way the objects are moving NASA assumes this is space debris reflecting the sunlight you are flying through a vacuum so things that are out in space will generally tend to hang out together having three objects you always have a triangle but not everyone agrees with the official explanation NASA's explanation is space junk to me is just you know just ridiculous they should be able to recognize what space junks are these guys are astronauts okay um they're trained for this but NASA really does suspect they're tracking space junk and they're worried because three years earlier shuttle debris brought down the shuttle Columbia following what occurred on sts-107 when we lost the Columbia NASA is very interested in tracking virtually every piece of debris NASA fears the Atlantis is seeing a critical piece of its hardware that's broken off in Mission Control we really want to get pictures like this of anything floating nearby any shuttle especially if it pierced have come off the show this kind of warning that was missed in 2003 the warnings you want to get every time and you want to find them out you want to see them you want to report them and you want to react to them unsure what these unidentified objects are NASA doesn't take any chances they've decided that based on the subject that we saw that we're going to wave off tomorrow so our next the orbit opportunity is going to be on flight day 13 atlantis accompanied nasa delays the landing so they can check that Atlantis has not been compromised this is Mission Control Houston from during this survey to confirm the integrity of Atlantis's heat shield in this case it looks like it's more likely to be an incidental object broken free accidentally from the shuttle and I believe s in the end the NASA decision one day after first sighting the mysterious flashing lights sts-115 is finally cleared to land

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Length: 4min 28sec (268 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 18 2014