(Conspiracy Nation, 2/4/03) -- An avalanche of data is surfacing giving clues as to what caused the Feb. 1, 2003 space shuttle tragedy. Conspiracy Nation here summarizes some of the information.
According to information received from a Conspiracy Nation reader, the shuttle disaster was caused by pilot error but this is being covered up so that the seven deceased astronauts will not have their hero images tarnished.
Conspiracy Nation hypothesizes that the recent Internet "worm" attack could have sabotaged the space mission. This space shuttle had its own Internet connection. According to a Pravda report dated Feb. 3, 2003, "it was for the first time that a space craft got an Internet address of its own which provided it with connection with the Earth through the satellite. Such an experiment was held for the first time; it is no wonder that when the catastrophe occurred, it was almost immediately reported that it could be somehow connected with the Internet experiment carried out during the flight. It will take some time to find out whether such suggestions are true or absurd." ("Columbia Tragedy: All Versions of Catastrophe Possible", Pravda.RU, 2/3/03). The source of the "worm" attack has been traced to Red China. Might not Red China/North Korea have launched a sophisticated computer attack, perhaps with assistance from the stolen PROMIS software? Speculation, yes, but at this point no possibility should be automatically ruled out.
In "Disasters of Convenience" (Part 26 of Sherman Skolnick's series, "Overthrow of the American Republic"), investigator Sherman Skolnick asks, "And what about HAARP, the super-beam technology particularly good at putting many million watt scorching particularly at the level above earth that the 'Columbia' was reportedly at when it exploded. The U.S. Military has bragged that they are always ten years ahead in technology where the ordinary people think the military is at. Savvy sorts contend particle beam technology is old hat. That there is a so far publicly un-named technology that can through electromagnetic or other pulsing, bring down airplanes..." (http://www.skolnicksreport.com)
This perception of involvement of more-or-less secret weapons in the Columbia mishap is echoed by scalar scientist Tom Bearden, who writes that "it is quite possible that an unfortunate but normal type of accident is what destroyed the shuttle; such accidents do happen unavoidably, in spite of the best intentions and efforts of everyone, and the shuttles are aging. It is also possible that a little burst of EM [Electro-Magnetic] energy deliberately placed on that shuttle, from a Yakuza scalar interferometer, could have initiated the breakup and catastrophic failure of the vehicle.
Far out? But an honest investigation would leave no stone unturned.
Leaving no stone unturned in the preliminary phase of an honest investigation means initially most any theory can be placed on the table. Posting to the alt.conspiracy newsgroup, "Rumsfeld Cow Rumen" (pseudonym) posits as follows: "The Columbia Shuttle was shot by an invisible ELF wave out of a secret military installation in Alaska called HAARP. The range of this tactical weapon starts at 35 miles high. The Shuttle went out of commission and contact at 39 miles high." The writer adds to his post with a curious piece of information: "Also, there were ants, bloodworms, silkworms, rats, and spiders, onboard this mission, to test the effects on silk, spiderweb silk, and the formic acid body weight of ants, and also the holy 'manna' of the Bible, which is actually a secretion from the anuses of ants, which might perform differently in the vacuum of space or in the strange gravity of space."
HAARP, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, was cited by Mother Jones magazine as one of the "Top Censored News Stories of 1994"; this would explain why perhaps you've never heard of HAARP. (A good book on the subject is HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, by Jerry E. Smith. Adventures Unlimited Press.)
According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, an amateur astronomer photographed "five strange and provocative images of the shuttle Columbia just as it was re-entering the Earth's atmosphere before dawn Saturday. The pictures, taken with a Nikon 8 camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage..." ("Photos show odd images near shuttle", by David Perlman. 2/2/03). Bright electrical phenomenon, as in bright electro-magnetic phenomenon, as in some sort of HAARP weaponry?
"Oh come on! It was the loss of a thermal protection tile which caused the tragedy!" insist some. But according to a report in Pravda, NASA shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore says "it couldn't be because of the loss of a thermal protection tile" that temperature on board the shuttle suddenly rose before the catastrophe. ("Ron Dittemore Is Sure It Was Something Different", Pravda.RU, 2/4/03). The Pravda article concludes that "it is not clear yet what was the true cause of the US shuttle's catastrophe just 16 minutes before scheduled landing. All possible variants of the tragedy and all versions are to be considered to find out the cause."
A report headlined at Rumor Mill News (www.rumormillnews.com) states that the space shuttle was downed by a "scalar Tesla Howitzer weapon." ("Scalar Psyop Strike on Columbia Ends World War III?" 2/2/03). According to the author, "The telltale sonic boom from the deployment of the weapon was so strong: 'It was like a car hitting the house or an explosion. It shook that much,' John Ferolito, 60, of Carrolton, north of Dallas, told the Associated Press. Media reports put the noise down to the effects of the shuttle breakup, but this is clearly spurious. The shuttle was gliding at 203,000 feet. That works out to almost 40 miles. Aircraft-generated sonic booms 40 miles up in super-thin air do not shake homes at ground level. Nor do small debris parts." What exactly is a scalar Tesla Howitzer weapon? According to the article, further information can be found at http://216.247.92.101/pub/bearden/iraq.htm
A report from the Canton Ohio Repository ("When science, fear collide", by James P. Pinkerton, Cantonrep.com 2/4/03) refers to "loony accounts of professed eyewitnesses" who suggest that "Columbia was brought down by either a missile or a midair collision with another aircraft." The article predictably insinuates kookiness/craziness upon those who are deviating from the already "acceptable" version of what happened, but nonetheless breaks the news that somewhere there are eyewitnesses who deserve to be heard. "When science, fear collide" offers an interesting slant on the space shuttle disaster by comparing it to ancient omens of "things seen in the sky"; it points out the "strangeness of Saturday's sadness. Columbia broke up when it was flying over central Texas, where President George W. Bush's ranch is located. The shuttle, symbol of American technological supremacy, failed on the eve of America's likely war with Iraq, about which the world has been assured that American military precision will minimize loss of life on both sides."
A bad omen for the upcoming battle between Allah and Jehovah? Or is it not exactly a coincidence that there is such bad symbolism surrounding the Columbia tragedy? Is there a hidden hand sending some sort of message? Bilderberg Society investigator James Tucker unearthed a bitter split at the last Bilderberg meeting, so it may be that the space shuttle event of Feb. 1, 2003 boils down to a communique between competing elite factions. When such faction fights occur from time to time within the Establishment, things can get messy.
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