Why is Elon Musk asking for "public help" in diagnosing the explosion of his Falcon 9?

This article states that Elon Musk is asking for NASA and public help in determining why his Falcon 9 rocket recently blew up during a refueling operation.  If you have not seen the video, here is the unedited version of it posted to Youtube by Russia Today.  Go ahead and watch the video and you will see that everything seems OK when suddenly the whole thing explodes into a fireball.  Mind you, this is the original video provided to RT by USLaunchReport which claims to employ a lot of disabled vets.

So let’s go back to Musk, who is clearly a very smart man, and ask why he needs the help of the general public to diagnose the explosion.  What does he give the public to do this?  Telemetry?  Data of any kind?  Nope.  He just says he could use help.  Of course, he knows that there is video of the explosion from USLaunchReport and since this incident happened over a week ago you have to be an idiot to believe that he has not reviewed it himself and had his experts review it in addition to telemetry data that we know they have to have which they are not sharing.

So why is Musk nudging the public to go review this video?  That is exactly what he is doing since there is nothing else available for the public and NASA to review.  Well perhaps you know that Youtube support single step viewing.  On my computer, frame by frame viewing control works with the "<"  and ">" keys, not with the "arrow keys" which so many tutorials online suggest to use for this (they bump the vid by 5 seconds instead of frame by frame).


If you do this you will see what Musk wants us to "discover" on our own.  Just keep hitting the greater than key until this flying object comes in from the right. 

The next three single step frames are per below, left to right.  It shows the "bird" rapidly approaching the rocket followed by an explosion.

Despite the growing explosion, the "bird" continues course right over the top of the exploding rocket only to disappear from sight for a couple of frames.




The object, or one very similar to it, reappears in the lower left of the frame and then moves upper right to exit at the top of the frame over the next 15 frames or so.  Yes, there are only 12 frames below, I skipped those where the object was behind the growing fireball.

Given that I have a military munitions background I can tell you something about the burn rate or "deflagration rate" of the explosion.  A rapid deflagration is also known as an explosion.  Tritonal (found in high explosive Mk82 bombs) burns at about 20,000 feet per second.  I don't know the exact liquid propellant of the fuel used in Falcon 9 but you can bet that it burns at a rate of thousands of feet per second. In other words, really fast.

If you look at the distance that that "bird" traveled relative to the growing fireball you have to realize that the "bird", which is CLEARLY not close to the camera as it is masked by the derricks and by the fireball in the video, is moving at high velocity.  I also don't know the frame rate of the video but even if it is only 60 FPS, that "bird" traveled from lower left of a very wide field frame to upper right in just 15 frames.  At 60 FPS (which is fairly low tech these days), the object made the full transition in 1/4 second.  Obviously this is no bird.  Also, would a bird fly toward an explosion?  Unlikely.

This is not some hoax vid, it is the original vid with a credible news source uploading it to Youtube.  Additionally, Musk's strange request for the public and NASA to somehow help figure out why his rocket exploded was not done simply because Mr. Musk was baffled.  He wanted people to come to their own conclusion so he would not be written off by closed minded people as a UFO nut (whether such objects are terrestrial or otherwise in origin).

Expect an exponential increase in UFO disclosure as part and parcel of the ongoing wave of conservatism.  Liberals tend to be flighty and emotional with less ability to handle truths without being shocked.  Conservatives look at data more coldly and don't need to be lied to about the truth because they tend to handle it better.