STS-112 Anomaly -- NOT Solved, Says Viewer

Jeff Challender is claiming that the shadow on the radiator can't be the solution of his 'moving V' UFO.
http://www.projectprove.com/STS-112.HTM

'The consensus of opinion on the most likely cause for this apparition seems to be that it must be a reflection of some part of the International Space Station from the surface of one of the two onboard radiators. The first question that comes to mind regarding this conclusion is: If this is ISSy being reflected from the concave surface of one of the radiators, which can be assumed is not moving relative to the payload bay camera, then what IS causing the motion. ... It was very near Sunset, but that shouldn't cause the image to move, since the assumed source, ISSy, was static. The radiator/reflection hypothesis does not explain the motion.'

JimO: I believe the consensus is that this is a moving shadow on the radiator, not the reflection of some other piece of the ISS. Can anyone confirm or deny? I don't recall any serious suggestion that the image is a specular reflection off a shiny radiator, but that appears to be the explanation that Jeff is attempting to refute. The motion appears to be consistent with the motion of other shadows in the sped-up sequence (which actually took about 90 seconds, I think I recall).

JimO: Jeff's first picture has a camera view not from the aft bulkhead of the payload bay, as he first presented, but from the FORWARD bulkhead, and a photograph out one of the two windows. But it does support his point that the doors and radiator are not visible in these scenes.

But if you go to http://home.earthlink.net/~sigma05/sts112anomaly.html you will see images from an aft CCTV that clearly show the radiator. So one wonders why Jeff's images don't show the radiator.

Jorge's point about the angle of view (from the camera versus the observation window) over the edge of the sill is well taken. It's like the visibility of the wing of a 747 out the window from the passenger seats. Seats near the outer edge can peer 'over' the sill line and see down to the wing; seats in the center of the aircraft, even if the passenger is standing, may not be able to peer down at a sharp enough angle to see the wings.

A good view of the layout of the forward payload bay bulkhead is found at http://www.floridatoday.com/space/explore/manspace/ shuttle/sts87/87ev... and http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS37/ 10064044.jpg

The camera is the boxy gizmo on the gold-colored platform, just to the left of the boom-mounted dish antenna on the right sill.

A view of the entire length of the empty bay is at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/dx14/images/payload2.jpg

The aft bulkhead is shown here http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS54/ 10065458.jpg and the camera seems to be a little farther outboard than on the forward bulkhead. Notice its relation to a line dropped vertically from the second payload door trunnion.

View from inside the Orbiter flight deck aft station is at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-407/p57a.jpg where commander's station is at left, and observer/photographer is at right.