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Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space
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| June 11, 2009
| Leonard David
Posted on 06/14/2009 2:45:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 3:00:29 AM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: JoeProBono
I know if I had fireballs I’d mostly keep them covered up.
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posted on
06/14/2009 3:04:09 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Liberal DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE speech.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 3:40:18 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: JoeProBono
Heres an interesting quote from the article on what is routinely hitting our earth, and has been hitting our earth, all along for years on end...
Most shooting stars are caused by natural space debris no larger than peas.
But routinely, rocks as big as basketballs and even small cars crash into the atmosphere.
And then, here was an article on an asteroid that hit the earth last year..., which I bet a lot of people didnt know about. I had not heard that an asteroid hit the earth last year... :-) But, that is, yet again, another event that happens with great regularity, Im sure...
The asteroid was detected by the automated Catalina Sky Survey telescope at Mount Lemmon , Ariz., on Oct. 6, 2008. Just 19 hours after it was spotted, it collided with Earths atmosphere and exploded 23 miles (37 kilometers) above the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan.
Because it exploded so high over Earths surface, no chunks of it were expected to have made it to the ground. Witnesses in Sudan described seeing a fireball, which ended abruptly.
But Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer with the SETI Institutes Carl Sagan Center, thought it would be possible to find some fragments of the bolide. Along with Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum and students and staff, Jenniskens followed the asteroids approach trajectory and found 47 meteorites strewn across an 18-mile (29-km) stretch of the Nubian Desert.
This was an extraordinary opportunity, for the first time, to bring into the lab actual pieces of an asteroid we had seen in space, Jenniskens said.
quoted from http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090325-asteroid-meteorites.html
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posted on
06/14/2009 3:41:38 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: JoeProBono
“Did somebody mention spaceballs?”
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:07:14 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: RichInOC
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:11:49 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
What are the implications, reasons, motivations, etc?
Why the change?
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:15:55 AM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: JoeProBono; Quix
>>>Why the change?
Possibly the sensors were picking up the ionization re-entry trail of unannounced orbiter spaceflights flown by the military or related agencies (such as NRO).
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:31:22 AM PDT
by
tlb
To: Quix
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:38:22 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I think Tintin and Snowy got to the bottom of this mystery.
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:45:47 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: tlb
YEAH!
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:49:51 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: tlb
ahhhhhh . . . true.
What about . . . also . . . too much info about even “natural” meteor events they wanted us ignorant of for whatever reason?
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:50:50 AM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 4:51:05 AM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: JoeProBono; Quix
What are the implications, reasons, motivations, etc? Why the change?
I think it very plausible that this (or these) hush-hush satellites are a new generation of military satellites tasked with looking for nuke tests or missile launches (NK anyone?) or observing and or tracking other nations satellites and or their re-entry.
That they might pick up ordinary objects like meteorites is secondary to their mission. However disclosing data on even normal phenomenon might give away too much information on the new capabilities that we dont want the rest of the world to know about.
But hey of the tinfoil hat is comfortable and looks good on ya, go ahead and keep wearing it.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:07:06 AM PDT
by
Caramelgal
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
To: Caramelgal
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:11:47 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
FIREBALLS from space?
There are a great many unexplained atmospheric events that are poorly understood.
One of which is the effect of upward streaming lightening from the tops of high clouds.
Also, the phenomena of Ball Lightening has been interpreted as UFO sightings.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:12:28 AM PDT
by
Osnome
(Moderation in all things)
To: Osnome
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:20:24 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Is that a composite image?
Incidentally, Nicola Tesla created a great many electrical plasma discharge effects, one of which was ‘Ball Lightening’
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:41:15 AM PDT
by
Osnome
(Moderation in all things)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:46:59 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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