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From: keithr@tolkien.WV.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: more on Discovery "alien spacecraft"
Message-ID: <3712@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 89 22:43:44 GMT
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Reply-To: keithr@tolkien.WV.TEK.COM ()
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
Lines: 36
The Quarterly Report (1st Quarter 1989) of the Fund for UFO
Research includes this item:
"In mid-March, the Executive Committee was informed that a
Baltimore resident had recorded a very provocative statement made
during a 'ham' radio rebroadcast of the communications between the
space shuttle Discovery and Houston ground control. The statement
as recorded was as follows: 'Uh, Houston, this is Discovery. We still
have that alien spacecraft under (observance?).' To this there was
no response from Houston. (The last word is a bit ambiguous, but the
other words -- including 'alien spacecraft' are completely clear.)
Subsequent investigations showed that the hams were
rebroadcasting 'raw' communications from the spacecraft, rather
than communications which had been passed first through Houston
control. The so-called 'NASA select' audio channel, which was
transmitted by Houston to the Press and other interested news
media, *does not include this statement*.
This audio tape initiated a search for confirmation that it had, in
fact, come from the spacecraft [Discovery, of course, :-)] and was
not some bizarre hoax by a ham radio operator who transmitted on
the same frequency as the Goddard ham station (WA3NAN). The Fund
immediately arranged for a voice analysis to determine if the
transmission was authentic and if so, which astronaut made the
statement. At this writing, the analysis was inconclusive."
If anyone on the net can add any substantive information to help us
get to the bottom of this probable hoax, please email or post to the net.
(CSICOPers and fanatic skeptics: please don't waste net bandwidth
with more gratuitous UFO ridicule, which only confirms your
ignorance of the UFO literature.)
Thanks in advance for any substantive responses.
-Keith Rowell, Tektronix, Wilsonville, OR keithr@orca.WV.TEK.COM