Recent content by trailrider

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    FAA to oversee investigation of SpaceX Starship's 3rd test flight

    I don't see this as a "mishap" either. I wish I had more data. If the booster was oscillating, it could be propellant sloshing. If it "broke up", could that be the FTS determining the downward velocity was not decreasing within spec due to lack of the landing burn? As to the Starship, could the...
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    UFOs will remain mysterious without better data, NASA study team says

    In referring to Star Trek beings, I was, of course, being facetious. However, I agree with Dave that it might help if the military and intel files on the subject were declassified and made public. At least military and commercial pilot reports are being made more public, and those people are...
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    UFOs will remain mysterious without better data, NASA study team says

    not all the Oscar-flight birds went down. He was ordered not to discuss any of this, and shortly thereafter was transferred to a training base as an instructor. Have never heard any explanation of these two events.
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    UFOs will remain mysterious without better data, NASA study team says

    Or maybe a delegation from Vulcan or the Klingon Empire? I personally have NEVER seen a UFO or UAP. I would like to know what caused the Minuteman I missile guidance systems in Echo- (all ten of them) and Oscar-flights to shut down when some strange lights appeared over Launch Facilities in...
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    Big asteroid to zoom by Earth on Wednesday

    Careful! Sleepy might order it shot down! But I don't think an F-22 with an AIM9X would do the job! BTW, when is the next full Moon?
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    What are these mystery objects that US fighter jets keep shooting down?

    While I have no particular liking for some things the current administration does, I have to wonder if there isn't some intelligence data that we don't want disclosed so that whoever is the source for these objects, including the Chinese government, won't know how much we have discovered about...
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    Don't panic: Ingenuity helicopter reaches 42 flights on Mars

    Looks like there is life on Mars... That looks like a giant mosquito. Oh, wait, that's Ingenuity!