What The Heck Is This Near The ISS??

[ArMaP]

I assumed since I posted right after your post, you would make the connection, obviously not.

Your post was after two posts I made, that's why I don't know which one you are talking about.

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

For fun, i cropped the 'item' and used 'smart photo fix' in Paintshop and then pasted it next to the original 'item'...

[The Seeker]

My point exactly....I don't think its a reflection. Might be a clandestine military op going on....

My thoughts on the matter also; look at how many years the manned orbiting lab was running without a peep from anyone...



Seeker

[Mikesingh]

My point exactly....I don't think its a reflection. Might be a clandestine military op going on....

Probably so. Check out my thread on ATS here....

The Top Secret US Military Space Program. Is The Future Already Here?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329997/pg1

Methinks it could probably be a hollowed out asteroid which is miles away. An artificial sat would be more streamlined and devoid of the rough finish this object has.

This is what I mean.....



Whether we have the capability of hollowing out asteroids which is part of a secret space program that we are unaware of or a construct by ETs, is all conjecture. Who knows? But as ArMaP insists, it could just be a bubble after all!

But remember.......

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1.5.167-8)

The truth is out there!! 

[ArMaP]

But as ArMaP insists, it could just be a bubble after all!

I never said that.

[Pimander]

The object is a spacecraft (possibly supply craft) being grappled by the ISS robotic arm prior to docking or during undocking.

Or it could be a cloaked alien spaceship.


The Japanese HTV-6 cargo vehicle is seen grappled by the International Space Station's robotic arm after arrival.

Unlike Progress capsules and ATVs, which dock automatically, HTVs and American commercial spacecraft approach the ISS in stages, and are signaled by ISS crew or ground control to continue from one holding point to the next. Once they reach their closest parking orbit to the ISS, crew grapple them using the robotic arm Canadarm2 and berth them to an open berthing port on the Harmony module.

[Mikesingh]

That's possible, but then:

1. Why isn't it visible?
2. The shape is noting like any of the modules/supply ships/ATV etc.

In a lighter vein you mentioned it could be an alien cloaked ship! Well, check this out.....



What the heck is this object docked with the ISS? 



And...

A video shot of the Soyuz about to dock with the ISS and an unusual object accompanying it in the distance....



What's going on?

[The Seeker]

According to google, april 2001 is the timeframe that the canadarm2 and Cygnus were installed on the ISS...

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Got to be a water droplet on the window acting like a lens, reflecting something in the cabin.....right?....

[ArMaP]

According to google, april 2001 is the timeframe that the canadarm2 and Cygnus were installed on the ISS...

The mission that installed the Canadarm2 was the one that took the photo from the opening post, STS-100, so if they were approaching the ISS (like the caption for that photo says) the Canadarm2 wasn't installed yet.

[ArMaP]

Got to be a water droplet on the window acting like a lens, reflecting something in the cabin.....right?....

Wrong.

[Pimander]

According to google, april 2001 is the timeframe that the canadarm2 and Cygnus were installed on the ISS...

Covert craft waiting to dock after the arm is installed?  Seems unlikely though.

Hmmmm...



The above is kind of what ArMaP was going on about.  If there is a droplet on glass and the glass is not perpendicular to the direction the camera points in then the water droplet can lens in something that is out of frame.  Look how detailed the image in the droplet is.

I still don't know what it is but I definitely agree that the object is outside the shuttle.  It doesn't look like a droplet to me but I don't discount the possibility.  And yes, there are water droplets in space sometimes, especially near to burning hydrocarbons from spacecraft boosters.

Hydrocarbon combustion: CH₄ + 2O₂    -->   CO₂ + 2H₂O

You can see droplets on the camera in some space videos and pictures.  There is one in one of Lunacognita's videos I seem to remember.

Just explaining a few things as some of the comments about ArMaP's idea were a bit unfair.

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Don't think they were unfair at all. They are just opinions and everybody has one. We're all adults here.

[The Seeker]

That's possible, but then:

1. Why isn't it visible?
2. The shape is noting like any of the modules/supply ships/ATV etc.

In a lighter vein you mentioned it could be an alien cloaked ship! Well, check this out.....



What the heck is this object docked with the ISS? 



And...

A video shot of the Soyuz about to dock with the ISS and an unusual object accompanying it in the distance....



What's going on?

Mike, don't have a clue what that is docked at the ISS; the 3rd pic you posted looks a lot like the pics of the Black Knight satellite (altho Jim Oberg swears it is an insulation blanket)

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/03files2/Black_Knight_Satellite.html



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