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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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- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
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- 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
-