2003 Columbia Disaster Revisited
On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia broke up upon reentry just after
9am (bottom picture) over much of central and eastern Texas.
The official story
reports that insulating foam damaged heat-resistant tiles on left wing of
Columbia just after launch is the suspected cause. In an entry at the
Living Moon website, "Columbia Taken Out by Lightning," provides image taken by
amateur, who watched reentry in the hills above San Francisco (top picture).
"In the photograph a purplish corkscrew streamer merges with the plasma
trail of the shuttle, which then brightens significantly," entry
describes a compelling alternative account. Space Lightning may be a sufficient
and more adequate cause - but that has largely gone ignored.
There is also a
HAARP rumor where the storyline goes: North Korea timed a
missile launch, so US defenses left little choice but to activate missile shield
(HAARP umbrella) to neutralize the incoming missile. It seems fantastic until
reports of a North Korean missile found in Alaska just a month later came out
with varied accounts here and here. Space Lightning or HAARP may sound far out but
aren't they better explanations, when compared to a few missing heat-resistant
tiles?
