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Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space....
Fox News ^
| June 12th, 2009
Posted on 06/11/2009 7:42:50 PM PDT by TaraP
For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere — but no longer.
A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists.
The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified
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TOPICS: Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: asteroids; bigsplash; catastrophism; comet; comets; dod; louisafrank; louisfrank; notsogreatflood; originofoceans; originoftheoceans; patrickhuyghe; smallcomets; space; spacecom; thebigsplash; water
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:42:50 PM PDT
by
TaraP
To: TaraP
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:44:19 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
To: Quix
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:44:43 PM PDT
by
TaraP
(Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
To: TaraP
Time to don the tinfoil and ask
What are they hiding?
Why are they hiding it?
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:46:07 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: TaraP
“Fireballs from Space” - sounds like the title of a great B-grade Sci-Fi movie!
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:47:52 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: TaraP
My guess is the DSP satellites are slowly dieing and the next generation replacements keep getting delayed. Not a good idea letting scientists let the enemy know when one of our birds go blind!
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:48:53 PM PDT
by
OCC
To: OCC
Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.
If Fireballs explode over cities, are they going to lie about what just exploded?
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:50:15 PM PDT
by
TaraP
(Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
To: TaraP
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:52:13 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: Army Air Corps
***“Fireballs from Space” - sounds like the title of a great B-grade Sci-Fi movie!***
And I thought the FIREBALLS were a rock and roll band from Raton,NM!
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:53:11 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do so long as it is compulsory.)
To: TaraP
Any time I want, weather permitting, I can go lay down on the backporch, look straight up at the sky and within minutes I'll see EXPLOSIONS.
This is an exceedingly common phenomenon.
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:54:10 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: TaraP
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:55:48 PM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: OCC; TaraP; PAR35
Somebody probably decided that a technically savvy person viewing the data from the satellites could determine their capabilities and determine how to thwart them.
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:56:27 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: TaraP
This new administration has fine priorities. How we observe meteors is now top secret but how we gather intelligence about terrorists is now an open book. You never know when a meteorite will have some blob-like creature that can only be killed by top secret technology (we don’t want any space creatures out there to know about our technology), but we will never, ever, have to worry about terrorism!
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:58:03 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: muawiyah
Any time I want, weather permitting, I can go lay down on the backporch, look straight up at the sky and within minutes I'll see EXPLOSIONS. Next time, try moving your head away from the screen door.
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posted on
06/11/2009 7:59:01 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: TaraP
LOL
“Zoo animals” have been around for years.
I take this as a new weapons system is ready for or is being tested.
X-51 HCM?
The real ‘Aurora’
Delta Blimp?
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posted on
06/11/2009 8:06:35 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
To: Army Air Corps
I saw that one, Morgan Freeman was the president...
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posted on
06/11/2009 8:06:50 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: TaraP
I am bummed without pictures.
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posted on
06/11/2009 8:23:54 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: TaraP
Do tell me more....!!
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posted on
06/11/2009 8:24:47 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts....)
To: Bean Counter
To: muawiyah
So, Mooie, you see explosions. Do you also hear voices?
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posted on
06/11/2009 8:50:21 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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