The official investigation identified failure of the right solid-rocket-motor joint and deficient O-ring sealing as the accident’s technical cause.
Challenger Disaster
Case Claims
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Mishlove says Ted Owens warned him on Christmas Eve 1985 about the next shuttle launch, but he acknowledges no evidence connects Owens or an outside object to Challenger; official investigations identified solid-rocket-booster joint and O-ring failure as the cause.
Mishlove says Owens called on Christmas Eve 1985 and warned him to stop the next shuttle launch, claiming his UFOs would destroy it.
Contemporary reporting, the published investigation, and the archival thread that surfaced them.
"'This is one of the most important phone calls you will ever receive. The SIs [non-human intelligence] really mean business. They will destroy the shuttle.' "...a month later, on January 28, 1986. I was shaken to my bones when the Challenger disaster occurred." (Since Ted Owens is in the "news" again, here's an excerpt from "The PK Man," written by Jeffrey Mishlove, which I shared in 2021 or so.) 1980 - The Space Intelligences = SIs = Non-Human Intelligence Owens: "The reason for all of this...


