An interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified government data reveal

Live Science ^ | Brandon Specktor

[packagingguy]

Why does this information have to be classified in the first place? It was a friggin’ rock.

[FrankRizzo890]

[Kevmo]

This reminds me of a Star Trek episode where one humanoid culture would take out other planets by way of steering thousands of asteroids at them so they wouldn’t even know they were under attack. I can’t remember which series it was, maybe Voyager or Next Generation.

[V_TWIN]

[Stosh]

So maybe they didn’t like Chuck Berry as much as we thought they would?

[Berosus]

Did anybody see this rock, or take a picture of it, before it blew up? If not, how do we know it was only 1.5 feet across?

[fruser1]

The object's detection predates the discovery of 'Oumuamua

Three's the charm.

[dljordan]

“Why does this information have to be classified in the first place? It was a friggin’ rock.”

It gives them power.

[Deaf Smith]

Bugs ranging shots,

[Telepathic Intruder]

It probably took some time to decide that it wasn’t a high-speed weather balloon.

[steve86]

It wasn’t the rock that was classified, it was the methods of detection and confirmation.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably not somebody, but something.

The late Louis Frank was hired by the DoD to study the data from a system of satellites that were intended to detect Soviet and Chinese ICBMs. He verified what the DoD suspected -- that the high-altitude flashes were the explosions of chunks of space debris, usually small comets.

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The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself by Louis A. Frank and Patrick Huyghe

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[SunkenCiv]

What steve86 said.

[dfwgator]

It wasn’t a rock, it was a Rock Lobster!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[PIF]

It seeded micro bots that borrowed into the Earth and re now rapidly multiplying as the consume the Earth.

[SunkenCiv]

Is it even possible? Yes, it is.

[M Kehoe]

Ow mau mau?

Is that racist?

5.56mm

[SunkenCiv]

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