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From: ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space,rec.ham-radio,talk.rumors,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Message-ID: <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 89 13:30:56 GMT
References: <4440@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <4440@drivax.UUCP> macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod) writes:
>
>On Tuesday March 14, 1989 at 6:42 am the following message was received by a
>UFO investigator in Baltimore through WA3NAN (Goddard) amateur radio
>transission from the orbiter Discovery.  "Houston, this is Discovery.  We
>still have the alien space craft, uhh, under observance."  The transmission
>was picked up on a Radio Shack scanner tuned to 147.45 mhz.
>
This is patently ridiculous, thinking that this is actually an alien spacecraft
sighting.  Most likely, this was either a bit of humor, or the 'alien' 
spacecraft is 'alien' only in the sense that it was not made in the US (most
likely Soviet).  First of all, if there really was an alien craft, and the crew
wanted to say something to Houston about it and wanted to keep it secret, they
would *not* broadcast over an open, unencrypted channel that every Tom, Dick,
and Harry with a $99.95 scanner could pick up.  More likely, if an alien ship
did appear near the shuttle, the crew would turn around and head for home, under
orders from the ground, since they're not equipped for alien contact.  Finally,
any *real* aliens would make contact with government officials, and we can 
assume that this didn't happen, since at last check, Bush was at some elementary
school, talking about U.S. drug policy.