The NASA debacle of 1999

•On the occasion of the spectacular solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 which passed over Europe, a group at NASA made a serious effort to organize coordinated observations with Foucault pendulums. •"The initial interpretation of the record points to three possibilities," says Dr. David Noever of NASA/Marshall, "A systematic error, a local effect, or the unexplored. To eliminate the first two possibilities, we and several other observers will use different kinds of measuring instruments in a distributed global network of observing stations."