[v911t] Big Machines Parked in Orbit: Black Ops, Star Wars, ET? Resent-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:46:48 -0600 (CST) http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm Big Machines Parked In Orbit - Black Ops, Star Wars Or ET? Or All Of The Above? By Jeff Rense 12-12-7 All images and videotape footage )2007-2008 by John Lenard Walson. All Rights Reserved. Copying or Reproduction in any media are prohibited without written permission of Rense.com and John Lenard Walson. All text is )2007-2008 Rense.com. Links are encouraged. What you are about to see is quite remarkable. It seems that some of the stars above us are not stars at all...as you shall see. A young man by the name of John Lenard Walson has discovered a new way to extend the capabilities of small telescopes and has been able to achieve optical resolutions - at almost the diffraction limit - not commonly achievable. With this new-found ability, he has proceeded to videotape, night and day, many strange and heretofore unseen objects in earth orbit. The resulting astrophotographic video footage has revealed a raft of machines, hardware, satellites, spacecraft and possibly space ships which otherwise appear as 'stars'...if they appear at all. There are, indeed, hundreds of satellites in Earth orbit as you will read in the summary which follows. However, the iamges you will see are clearly of large and sizeable machines which have not been seen before. Let's start with one such object in orbit as videotaped by John Lenard Walson. It is the International Space Station...the ISS...take a look... Keeping that image and it's relative size appearance in mind, now ask yourself, what is THIS?... And if you find that one intriguing, here are more examples of the scores of space objects above us John Walson has captured on tape... All images and video footage are )2007-2008 by John Lenard Walson - All Rights Strictly Reserved Once again, here is what the ISS looks like through the telescope and video camera lens of astrophotographer Walson... And here is the actual video footage from which the above freeze frame is taken followed by some footage of something that is NOT the ISS. What is it? If you might be wondering what the Shuttle looks like, here it is... So, what are these other huge machines and spacecraft? Now let's take a look at some of Walson's remarkable video footage showing satellites and spaceships (?) above our heads in Earth orbit. How Many Known Satellites Are In Orbit? How Much 'Junk'? Keeping the footage you've just seen in mind, here is what the Union Of Concerned Scientists has to say about orbiting spacecraft and satellites in Earth orbit... There are more than 800 active satellites currently in orbit. Amazingly, they represent four percent of the total number of objects currently cataloged by the U.S. space surveillance network; the rest includes abandoned satellites, spent rocket boosters, and other debris. The United States owns more than 400 active satellites, just over 50 percent of all satellites. Russia and China have the second and third highest number of space assets, owning 89 and 35 satellites, respectively. Civilian satellites, which perform tasks for the commercial, scientific, and government sectors, make up the majority of U.S. satellites. Russia's space assets are split nearly evenly between military and civil missions, though there are not separate military and civilian space programs. Only a very small percentage of other countries' satellites are military in nature.