space age myths and legends

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The 2009 'Norway Spiral' -- Why it WAS only a missile [15 FAQs about the bizarre sky spectacle]

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Jim and astronaut Leroy Chiao discuss strange things he saw on his Mir mission

Jim and old friend Jerry Ross discuss how the insulation blanket he dropped on a 1998 space walk has become famous as an alien starship

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First Space Station Mission Mistake Fans Old Space Myth

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STS-75 Tether Swarm

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STS-48 Zig Zagger

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Alleged astronaut-related UFO testimony

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Apollo-11 UFO

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Fifty-year old Russian Report May Explain 'Giant Mothership

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99 FAQs to Jim Oberg on 'Space UFOs'

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Astronaut UFO sightings explained

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September 2, 2013 Australia “giant UFO” – a Chinese satellite launch

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11/09/2010 - SPECTRUM: Mystery Missile Wasn't a Missile at All

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How Can Satellite Reentries Be So Often Misperceived as Large “Mother Ship” UFOs?

1. Best example: "Top Ten" UFO Case - Yukon, Canada, 1996 - BUSTED!

http://badufos.blogspot.com/2012/04/top-ten-ufo-case-yukon-canada-1996.html

http://badufos.blogspot.com/2014/01/discovery-canadas-close-encounters.html

2. Misperception of Satellite Re-Entries - Seeing is Not Necessarily Believing.
Ted Molczan  //  Fri Jan 10 2014 - 05:09:23 UTC

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Did a UFO Attack an Atlas Missile in 1965?

1. NICAP report, T. Scott Crain, Jr.:: “UFO Filmed Circling Atlas Rocket” [September 1988]

2. Bob Jacobs atlas missile: “The Big Sur ‘UFO’: An Identified Flying Object”

by Kingston A. George, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 17, Winter 1993, pp. 180-187

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/buzzing_bee_missile_mythology_flies_again/

and http://home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/bigsur.htm

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Was an alien spacecraft recovered at Kecksburg in 1965?

1. Standard myth [coming soon]

2. Likely explanation

The Kecksburg, PA "UFO Crash" (actually the great Fireball Meteor of Dec. 9, 1965).

Robert Sheaffer http://www.debunker.com/Kecksburg.html

3. My role in sleuthing it out [coming soon]

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Jim featured on May 18, 2008, NBC Dateline special on UFO sightings

• Comments on Dateline program

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Jim has researched UFO reports associated with space activities for more than 35 years.

Recent work:

• Huffington Post (quotes and comments): UFO Sightings At International Space Station On The Rise
• MSNBC (May 15) – Top Soviet UFO Sighting (1984) – Solved At Last
• MSNBC (Jan 15, 2010): Did missile test spark Chinese UFO reports? In an ironic encore, yet another secret military missile test - this time, in China - has sparked widespread UFO reports from surprised ground witnesses.
• RationalWiki entry on Jim
• June 8, 2012 -- ADVISORY -- Unusual Russian missile test sparks mideast UFO flap

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Lecture Available:

• "Soviet Saucers and Space Secrets"
• Sample slides from lecture

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Jim's work on UFO sightings:

• 07/23/1993 - Oberg NASA briefing: Mitigation of Hazards of Spacecraft-Generated Debris
• How Does the Shuttle External TV Camera Actually Work? part 1, part 2
• Jim's Assessment of "Kecksburg UFO Crash" stories (2008)
• Jim’s research on Soviet UFOs caused by missile/space activity
• Jim’s Perspective on ‘Ufology’ in light of prosaic causes
• More specific ‘astronaut UFO sightings’ explained
• Critiques of “Documentaries” and YOUTUBE Videos on ‘Astronaut UFOs’ (coming soon)
• Great East Coast Spiral UFO
• Other worldwide UFO reports sparked by human space activity

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Kean book

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Thursday morning Moscow papers are reporting on the Norway photos/videos and the speculation it's a failed Bulava launch, but so far no comment from the Defense Ministry. Only one TV channel, RenTV, has mentioned it -- a good indicator that the other state-owned broadcasters recognize the probability (or have received orders) that silence is best for potential military accidents.

Alan Boyle at MSNBC has a commentary on it.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:56 PM by Alan Boyle

Kommersant's ace aerospace reporter Ivan Konovalov reports in Thursday's paper that an MoD source says the failure was in the third stage.

My interview is here
Rachel Maddow show, Dec 9, 2009-12-09 (5:07 segment)
Dramatic spiral UFO explained