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From: ken@nsc.nsc.com (Ken Trant)
Newsgroups: sci.space,rec.ham-radio,talk.rumors,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Message-ID: <10245@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 30 Mar 89 19:37:01 GMT
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article <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) says:
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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

I think the poster suggested that the "fire on board" statement might have been
prearranged code to switch to another channel. Not to unlikely.

% 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,

what equipment would you take to an alien encounter?. How are the astronauts 
not equipt to handle an encounter with aliens?.

% 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.  

 We should have talked to you for the best information on alien encounters
since you apparently know exactly what is needed, who the aliens would talk
to.  BTW which govt have the ET's decided to contact when the get here?. 
Maybe they are democrates and are waiting to talk to the Congress?. :-)


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