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So the information packets may indeed be telemetry regarding the incoming "snowball"?

I too am glad that the main part of this is now certified as a hoax, but like yourself will be keeping an eye on the skies at night until later this month, as well as supplies on hand and plenty of ammo.

Without the snowball recording, one would take the coincidental events of today and surmise that there may be either a large terrorist strike and/or a large preemptive strike in the works for the last week of this month. If I were a mullah in Iran, a North Korean military member, or even a Chinese Communist Party member, I'd be worried about my future. Nothing like multiple sunrises, and there would be little or no warning should our strike come from space. Sleep tight, Axis of Evil..........

So the information packets may indeed be telemetry regarding the incoming "snowball"?

Honestly, I have no idea what the data packets are. I've not been able to decode them, not to say they are encrypted or anything, but I simply do not (at the moment) have the right software to try to figure out what that data is.

I too am glad that the main part of this is now certified as a hoax, but like yourself will be keeping an eye on the skies at night until later this month, as well as supplies on hand and plenty of ammo.

I say most of it is a hoax. With the recording, the problem I have with it, isn't so much that it isn't "real", but rather there is no authentication data with it. The recording came from a couple of different places, and yet, the only connecting, forensic data we have is that it "came from a member of a ham club". Generally, "ham clubs" don't sit and monitor traffic that isn't ham-related (and the alleged frequency on which this was heard was not a Ham band in ANY country). Furthermore, we really do NOT know the date and time it was recorded, nor by whom it was recorded, nor really the frequency.

In other words, even if it isn't a "hoax recording" (which I doubt), the rest of the missing data would tell us what it means. Without that data we can guess all we want, but probably not hit the real reason for the broadcasts.

I thought everyone kept a supply of ammo??? :)

Without the snowball recording, one would take the coincidental events of today and surmise that there may be either a large terrorist strike and/or a large preemptive strike in the works for the last week of this month. If I were a mullah in Iran, a North Korean military member, or even a Chinese Communist Party member, I'd be worried about my future. Nothing like multiple sunrises, and there would be little or no warning should our strike come from space. Sleep tight, Axis of Evil..........

A friend of mine that works with one of these private intelligence collection "companies" gave me some information a few weeks back. It was a translation of one of these "terrorist websites" they'd found, with some "threats". In it, they talked about "stars" "coming together" (or alignments). I spent some time on the computer running some sky scenarios. There were several times throughout last month that certain "stars" would "align". Nothing happened though. I bring this up because it is sometimes difficult to say what "intel" will tell you.

The messages were saying how there was going to be some sort of devastating attack on the US and allies when certain "stars" lined up. Everyone knows that stars do not move (well, they do, albeit, SLOWLY), but planets DO. And the term "Planet" is actually a translation of the phrase "Wanderer" or "Wandering Star".

Many other religions (and non-religions) put a lot of stock in the "alignment of stars". If *I* were a bad guy and wanted to plan something for a particular time, but didn't want to give a date and time for that thing to happen, I might spend some time isolating certain celestial events, and using "metaphores" to supply the information. Indeed, that has been done several times throughout this war on terrorism to my knowledge. I'm not sure if identifying these types of messages help us to stop terrorist attacks, but I'd be willing to bet they have. If *I* can figure it out, so can our intelligence analysts, and the so can the bad guys.

The point to this is that the "snowball recording" perhaps has nothing whatsoever to do with anything we can imagine (it might be a countdown until some piece of space debris comes crashing down, who knows?) There are many other, more important pieces of information that pass through this site though, that DO TELL what is going to happen. I'm inclined to believe that a lot of intelligence folks use this site to collect that open source intelligence, and this recording is a "blip" on the radar that will pass into the night without us ever knowing the true facts behind it.