[_Jim]

One thing is obvious, this shuttle was NOT on fire

Did you see the video captured out of Nevada -

- it shows a big PUFF as the glow of the shuttle approaches the planet Venus (clearly visible at that time).

This video was shot looking east ... our Fox station played it this moring.

[mikegi]

Did you see the video captured out of Nevada -- it shows a big PUFF as the glow of the shuttle approaches the planet Venus (clearly visible at that time). This video was shot looking east ... our Fox station played it this moring.

There was a CA photographer who claims to have photos showing a "lightning bolt" crossing the path of the shuttle. This and the Nevada would be two separate things, right?

[Chesterbelloc]

I live up in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Central California and I watched the shuttle go by. As the shuttle moved out of view to the east, at an amazing fast speed, it passed behind some trees. I saw nothing from my vantage point. I saw the video today with the big PUFF and I know I would have noticed that. That happened to the east out of my view.