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Military Ordered To Keep Fireball Reports "Classified"
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| June 10, 2009
| Leonard David
Posted on 06/10/2009 8:47:48 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
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"And in the shaky world we now live, it's nice to know that a sky-high detonation is natural versus a nuclear weapon blast." As I read it---all fireballs, shooting stars, asteroids and meteoroids will be classified by our government....Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm? What is the real reason for keeping this scientific data under wraps?
To: NorwegianViking
A... U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by ...government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
Nothing to see, folks, move along, move along...
ROFL!
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:53:33 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: NorwegianViking
Keeping the general public out of the information loop so as to prevent a panic over an ELE?
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:54:06 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: NorwegianViking
They know what the actual source is:
Don't click here. You might be offended. I mean it. DONT CLICK THERE!!!!!!
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:56:09 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: NorwegianViking
Not reporting meteors detected by our recon satellites might make sense. It will prevent other countries from knowing how sensitive the satellites are and what their fields of view are. If meteors A, B and C burn up in the atmosphere, but only A and C are recorded by the satellite that means B wasn't seen so you can tell what it can see.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:59:23 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: SoldierDad
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:59:52 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Rock and roll ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut)
To: NorwegianViking
I do know for a fact that the DOD is playing around with ball-lightning pretty seriously...the natural phenominon also has some fancy German name, but I heard they want to make it a weapon.
Don’t know if this is really related, though.
I think a lot of times what some folks are seeing is R&D tests of an emerging weapons system.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:01:14 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: NorwegianViking
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:01:24 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Gitmo detainees to Alcatraz!)
To: NorwegianViking
More 0bama “transparency”...
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:03:18 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 142 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: KarlInOhio
If meteors A, B and C burn up in the atmosphere, but only A and C are recorded by the satellite that means B wasn't seen so you can tell what it can see. Nice try, but how would you know that the data released by the military wasn't already edited? In fact, you'd have to presume it was, which would mean it wouldn't represent the full capabilities of the satellite anyway.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:03:33 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: NorwegianViking
What is the real reason for keeping this scientific data under wraps?
Plausible deniability.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:04:03 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: NorwegianViking
I could see a minimal risk to reporting when one of our satellites spots an impact, but if handled properly the risk would be minimal at best.
If we report a satellite spotting an impact, an enemy could look where the impact was and could possibly estimate where our satellites are. Of course I’m mostly ignorant about this, this is just an idea that came to mind as far as any potential risks are concerned. Our adversaries probably already know where most of our satellites are anyway. lol
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:04:55 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: wastedyears
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Mass extinction)
An extinction event (also known as: mass extinction; extinction-level event, ELE) is a sharp decrease in the number of species in a relatively short period of time.
The dinosaurs are believed to have been the victims of an ELE from a asteroid collision with Earth.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:16:50 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: SoldierDad
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:18:41 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Rock and roll ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut)
To: NorwegianViking
All about “I have the power to...I have the power to...I have the power to....over you!!!
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:21:49 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: wastedyears
I’ve been wondering for some time now just why the world ecomony tanked so fast - a known ELE might explain a lot.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:21:53 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: NorwegianViking
In the 60’s there were sightings on radar scopes all over this country of UFO’s flying at unheard of speeds and altitudes never reached by any known winged aircraft. The SR-71 hid in the night and was responsible for thousands of UFO reports. After several years service the blackbirds existence was uncovered.
Somehow, this has the same smell to it.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:27:18 PM PDT
by
oldenuff2no
(I'm a VET and damn proud of it!!! I did not fight for a socialist America!!!!!!!)
To: Talisker
I'm thinking it is probably a blanket effort: deny any information to your enemies and potential enemies. What we can/cannot see (or what we'll admit to), where we're looking with wide FOV sensors, where we may be looking with more focused searches, etc.
We're putting up newer sensors, time to pull the curtain down completely. When it comes to military secrets and capabilities, I'm all for keeping everything out of the public eye.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:29:32 PM PDT
by
CodeMasterPhilzar
(I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
To: Grampa Dave; LonePalm
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:33:38 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: SoldierDad
>Keeping the general public out of the information loop so as to prevent a panic over an ELE?
No, it’s just N. Korea... move along, move along. ;)
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:36:59 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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