[Bellflower]

Oh c’mon folks, enough with the mysteries! The military launched a secret payload into orbit, that’s all. They are all denying it because they need to do that. It was not a threat to the US, it was, simply a deniable mission so cool your jets folks...

Right, as we all know that everything is always perfectly innocent in this big pink fluffy world of ours so there is no chance at all that this might be something foreign and undesirable. How silly of us to even consider it!

[Netz]

Would NORAD and the other myriad agencies be so stupified? Come on. This was a US launch.