Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pacbell!qvax2!jerry
From: jerry@qvax2.UUCP (Jerry Gardner @ex2561)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Strange communications w/Shuttle
Keywords: Shuttle, UFOs, radio communications
Message-ID: <527@qvax2.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 18:07:38 GMT
References: <6119@homxc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jerry@qvax2.UUCP (Jerry Gardner @ex2561)
Organization: Qantel Corp, Hayward, CA
Lines: 19

In article <6119@homxc.ATT.COM> mrb1@homxc.ATT.COM (M.BAKER) 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 was probably some amateur radio operator's prank.  A large number of
hams have the capability of transmitting in the two-meter band (144-148 MHz)
and someone could easily have transmitted the "alien" message over the top
of WA3NAN.


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Jerry Gardner, NJ6A	Qantel Business Systems, Hayward, CA
			UUCP: ...{hplabs,pacbell,ihnp4}!qantel!qvax2!jerry

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