More Space Sillinesses on Filers Files
James Oberg
Filer's Files next goofiness
Posted By: jimo <job...@houston.rr.com>
Date: Wednesday, 24 July 2002, at 5:53 a.m.
While waiting to confirm that Filer's files will retract the 'UFO formation'
(actually reflectors on the outside of the space station), I note that he's
advertising another sensational 'cosmonaut UFO drawing'.
Filer's Files #30 posted on 07-24-2002 at 03:29PM by george
Summary: Cosmonaut drawing of UFO from Soviet MIR Space Ship. Drawing was
furnished by Soviet Col. Maria Popvitch.
JimO notes: First, Mir wasn't a space SHIP, it was a space STATION. Second,
the UFO enthusiast he's talking about doesn't have the first name 'Maria',
but 'Marina'. Also, her last name isn't 'Popvitch' but 'Popovitch' (or
'Popovich'). But -- what they hey -- give the guy some slack when it comes
to getting details right.
The drawing is the one attributed to Afanasyev, in the non-existent mission
from the non-existent launch site, as originally reported:
Original claim: Jim Hickman at http://www.rense.com/ufo6/presufo.htm
and http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/cosmnaut.html, and
http://yorkshireufoinfo.homestead.com/quotesfrom.html and
http://ufocasebook.com/ufoquotes1.html and
http://members.tripod.com/ancientknightsc/id95.htm and
http://j_kidd.tripod.com/b/226.html and
pages.prodigy.net/thr-ok/quotes.html and many more
Was once on the CSETI Website
http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/russian.htm
But now removed.
Some simple investigation results:
http://yufoi2.homestead.com/soyuz479.html
The drawing is of a Testor's 'UFO Model'.
correction is published -- kudos
Posted By: jimo <job...@houston.rr.com>
Date: Wednesday, 24 July 2002, at 10:51 a.m.
From Filer's Site:
CORRECTION TO SHUTTLE CHASED BY DIAMONDS
In Filer's Files #28, we reported that on June 8, 2002, at about 5 :35 PM,
CDT, as the STS 111 Shuttle Endeavor was crossing the Atlantic, at the lower
right part of the screen, four to six anomalous lights in a diamond shaped
moved across the video screen. NASA investigated the lights and announced
that the Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) used for supplying the
International Space Station has highly reflective tape on its grappling
points. Lights shinning on the circular reflective tape combined with camera
movement made it appear that anomalous lights were moving across the video
screen. These reflections at first stumped several of the PROVE experts and
myself. I agree with NASA's assessment that we were looking at the light
reflections on the tape rather than objects in space. However, this
explanation does not fit for hundreds of other moving objects in space and
our atmosphere.
Jeff Challender, Dr. Oren Swearingen, and David Sereda have put together
videos of hundreds of unidentified anomalous objects in space that
astronauts and cosmonauts have privately acknowledged. Russian cosmonauts
are much more willing to discuss their own sightings than our own
astronauts.
COSMONAUTS SAW FLYING XMAS TREE AND SPACE SHIP
GENNADIJ STREKHALOV aboard the MIR Space Station says, "On the last two
flights I saw something. During the flight of 1990, I called Gennadij
Manakov, our commander: "Come to the porthole. Unfortunately, but this is
typical, we did not manage to put a film in the camera quickly enough to
film it." We looked on Newfoundland and the atmosphere was completely clear.
And suddenly a kind of sphere appeared. I want to compare it with a
Christmas tree decoration, beautiful, shiny, glittering. I saw it for ten
seconds. The sphere appeared in the same way as it disappeared again. What
it was, what size it had, I don't know. There was nothing I could compare it
with. I was like struck by lightning by this phenomenon. It was a perfect
sphere, glittering like a Christmas tree decoration. I reported to the
Mission Control Center, but I did not say that I have seen a UFO. I said I
saw a kind of unusual phenomenon. I had to be careful with the choice of my
words. I don't want someone to speculate too much or quote me wrong.
COSMONAUT VICTOR AFANASYEV'S DRAWING of an elongated flying triangle UFO
seen flying formation in April 1979, with his space vehicle website is on my
website. Victor states, "I think we are not alone, something of
extraterrestrial origin has visited Earth." The alien craft turned toward
ours, followed us and flew formation 25 to 29 meters away. We photographed
the metallic engineering structure that was and 40 meters long. The film was
later confiscated. See his drawing at
http://www.filersfiles.com/news/images.php?id=69
correction is full of errors -- sigh
Posted By: jimo <job...@houston.rr.com>
Date: Wednesday, 24 July 2002, at 10:56 a.m.
Filer wrote: "NASA investigated the lights and announced that the Multi
Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) used for supplying the International Space
Station has highly reflective tape on its grappling points."
I've seen no evidence that NASA ever investigated this claim, but several
private citizens did. I've seen no evidence that 'NASA' ever offered any
explanation. Is this more imagination or fantasy?
There is no highly-reflecting tape on the MPLM grappling points, and I've
seen nobody even make this claim until Filer came up with it. Did he dream
it up himself, or rely on the opinion of somebody equally confused and
ignorant, or simply not understand what he was being told?
The circles are optical tracking targets mounted on the outside of various
modules to enable precision tracking using TV imagers. They have nothing to
do with 'grappling points'.
Filer further writes, "COSMONAUTS SAW FLYING XMAS TREE AND SPACE SHIP ", but
what the cosmonaut really said was "It was a perfect sphere, glittering like
a Christmas tree decoration". NOT a tree, but a sphere (below him against
the Earth, actually).
As for the "Afanasyev Drawing", every 'fact' provided in the original
story -- date, mission, destination, launch point -- was wrong, and it was
trivially easy to determine this. This has been published on the Internet
for years, but Filer still hasn't found out.
Come on, this is more than just 'carelessness'. How can we explain these
factual howlers?