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ufo astronaut incidents
Why the 'Skylab squiggle' [1973] is not a 'UFO'
STS-48: Reply to Fleming & Carlotto Criticism [2003]
STS-48: Rebuttal to Fleming's "RCS Expert" [2009]
STS-48 data package -- critical background & context
STS-48: Debunking Dr. Kasher's "Five Proofs It Can't Be Ice"
STS-48 Data Files show prosaic nature of zig-zag space dot
03/31/1999 - Purdue University (speech): The STS-48 "Zig Zag UFO" -- A Prosaic Explanation (large 12mb file - smaller version coming soon)
Location of air/water vents on space shuttle
Shuttle dawn "twilight zone" where dots "appear"
Strange Shuttle Sights: Unearthly and Mundane
Some Notorious 'Anomalous' Shuttle Events
Shuttle TV: Is What We See What NASA Gets?
Proper Research Suggestions for 'Space UFO Videos'
MSNBC // June 13, 2008 // Why NASA watches out for true UFOs
More Weird ‘Space Cases’ – Cracked
Station Crew Watches Space Debris Go By (2004)
Columbia Zig-Zag “Lightning Strike” (2003) – a camera artifact
Columbia Disaster Warning (2003) – the Unseen ‘UFO’
STS-80 “UFO Video”
STS-75 UFOs & Tether Video
STS-63 – Debating ‘Skeptical Ed’
Space.com (1999): Why Shuttle Missions Often See ‘UFOs’
Apollo-era NASA Study of Anomalous External Objects
Apollo-11 ‘UFO Lore’
The ‘Bogie’ of Gemini-7
Gemini-4 – McDivitt’s Sighting
NASA-produced video compilation (1979) of unusual outside sights
Analog (1976): "Unidentified Fraudulent Objects"
Early NASA Manned Spaceflight UFOs – Bogus
Astronauts and UFOs -- The Whole Story (large PDF - 7.7mb) Space World magazine, February 1977 Seminal skeptical investigation of UFO stories associated with early manned space missions, published within a few years of the actual missions and the first published UFO accounts. 'Space World' magazine, published by Ray Palmer, was indexed in the "Readers Guide to Periodic Literature" (a pre-Internet 'paper search engine') so the existence of these explanations was easily determined by any serious researcher -- but the explanations were overlooked or omitted by almost all pro-UFO writers. Discusses Jim McDivitt's "beer-can shaped" object on Gemini-4 (including the Condon Commission's assessment), a Gemini-7 photo allegedly showing a pair of luminous UFOs, reports from X-15 flights and from moonbound Apollo missions, and photographs from the Skylab space station. Blobby photos from Carpenter's Mercury-7 mission are compared with a similar-looking image of a known structure on Gemini-5. Comments from Richard Underwood, head of the photo analysis office at the astronaut center, and from astronauts Richard Gordon, Pete Conrad, and others, plus description of NASA 'moon pigeon report' on debris sightings. Examples of misrepresentation of ordinary photos by UFO authors, including James Harder and George Fawcett. Details of Gemini-11 satellite fly-by, Apollo-12 moonbound companions, with prosaic explanations.