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From: Bill Hamilton <skywatcher22@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:20:09 PST
Fwd Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:53:53 -0500
Subject: STS-80 Story


Story On The STS-80 Footage

As I have remarked before, the story of how the STS-80 footage
was made public started in Dec. 1996.  On Dec. 1, 1996 my friend
John Maxfield was viewing the NASA Select channel (22) in
Sacaramento when he saw something anomalous appear on the
screen.  He popped in a cassette and started recording.  A few
days later he called me and sent me a copy.  I showed this for
the first time at the UFO Congress in Laughlin, NV in Jan. 1997.

Subsequently, it was shown on Fox News (locally) in Phoenix, AZ.

We sent a copy to Dr. Jack Kasher for analysis, but to this day
never received an answer or analytical report.

The footage was first posted on the Internet on Tom King's
website, OVNI CHAPTERHOUSE (now called Skynet).  After Tom
posted this, Richard Hoagland caught wind of it and mentioned
this and read my email postings on the Art Bell show.  We also
arranged to send a copy of this video to Hoagland (S-VHS format)
to have it analyzed, and, to date, never received an answer.
Since that time Hoagland has announced plans to sell this video.

Sarcastically, I would like to say how wonderful the rapid
response has been to video analysis.  We did not want to make
any definitive statements until we had the results of an
analysis.

However, I would like to say that the object that caught my
immediate attention was the large round glowing object with a
dark center that seems to pop up from below the cloud layer,
moves slightly, then holds position as the shuttle moves on.
This object then ascends to join two others, one of which
blinks.  If this is debris from the shuttle, then how does it
appear to move beneath the clouds?

McGaha of Tucson (CSICOP member) made a statement to Fox News
that the shuttle was passing over the nightside of earth so that
objects far from the shuttle could not be seen.  This despite
the low-light level camera.  The object in question does not
seem to be reflecting sunlight, moonlight, starlight, or any
other light, but appears to be self-luminous as do the other
objects.  Since clouds illuminated by lightning and other
self-luminous objects far away from the camera are visible, I do
not see why these objects could not be some distance from the
camera.  McGaha concludes these objects are shuttle debris. What
caused this shuttle debris to move in one direction, then
another, then halt movement as the shuttle continues to move.
No thrusters are firing at this point.

I, for one, would like to see more analysis done on this
footage, and have the results published.

Sincerely,



Bill Hamilton
Executive Director
Skywatch International, Inc.