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Report sent to The National UFO Reporting Center 08/23/05



On the morning of August 6th between 7:00-7:30AM My wife and I were watching NASA TV from our Direct TV Satellite dish. I was also recording on my tabletop VCR and while we were watching NASA's broadcast of the STS-114 Discovery mission. The Shuttle had undocked from the International Space Station and passed between Australia and New Zealand on it's orbit and was now half way across the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii and west of Chile. The TV camera located at the back of Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay was trained on the Earth's darkened ocean and horizon showing stationary bright and dim stationary lights with some blinking on or above the surface and what appear to be stars in the sky at the bottom of the frame. With the curve of the Earth visible. The view is upside down because of the orientation of the Shuttle (flying upside down). Suddenly one dimly lighted object appeared around 9-o'clock in the frame and quickly traveled down to the lower right around 5-o'clock in the frame and slowing to a stop at the curve of the Earth. A few seconds later a large bright object appears around 4-o'clock in the frame and swiftly travels left across the frame at an upward angle and slows to a stop around 9-o'clock then reverses direction and retraces its path across the frame. Around the same time you will notice a dimly lighted object from around the 1-o'clock position in the frame travel straight down and exits at the bottom of the screen. Also at the same time there is another dimly lighted object around the 8-o'clock position in the frame traveling from left to right at an upward angle across the frame to around the 2-o'clock position in the frame and exits the frame. When the large bright object approaches the 4-o'clock position the camera is panned to the left away from where the object is traveling and clouds appear from the top of the frame and dims half the screen. Then the down link is cut off by NASA TV. The programming comes back on showing the computer graphic of the orientation of the Shuttle and then changes to the Shuttle bay camera again showing the Earth as it's orbit brings it into the lighted part of the Earth. I counted a total of four moving objects. Three dim and one bright. The VHS tape I was recording the broadcast with was recording in the SLP setting (not the best quality) but I converted the footage to DVD format and the video is very clear on a computer monitor. I have sent a copy of this DVD to The National UFO Reporting Center for evaluation. I have also e-mailed stills from the video to the Director.

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