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What really scares me though, isn't the "hoax", it's that damned recording. If it is real, and I'm reasonably certain it is a real recording, then SOMETHING is going to "impact" around 23 June... someplace. What that is, where it is going to impact and why, remains a mystery at this time. That's it for now, folks. Best wishes to all , and THANKS forputting up with me. Rick

If this is the "Snowball" recording, hasn't that been around for 2-3 years now?

Isn't the matter of the recording being real seperate from the veracity of the information contained in the recording? In other words, could not have someone actually made such a transmission (i.e. it's an authentic tranmission), but yet message tramsmitted is false, or made-up?

Actually, yes. You're correct. On all accounts. What I meant when I said "scared me" isn't that I'm "scared", it's that people take the time to plan out hoaxes like that, and then use whatever pieces of information they can to link their theory with "facts".

I'm more than reasonably certain the radio recording is authentic. I don't have a source, I don't have dates and times, and we don't know the context in which the messages were sent, therefore we really do not know what the subject of the material is.

The fact is, that could have easily been a recording made of NORAD and they are tracking a particular piece of space debris that is going to reenter. It could be anything along those lines.

Last night after I posted the messages above (and some other messages on another site) I did a bit more study of the 'recording'. I now believe that it probably WAS NOT done on an HF radio, but rather was recorded from a UHF or VHF system. I think that, because in looking at the data tracks, the speed of the data and the amount of data transmitted, I don't believe that it would even WORK over HF. I could be wrong on this account though, this last just being a supposition. I just don't believe anyone is transmitting 9600 baud digital data over an HF system. Who knows though?