Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space

June 12, 2009 by admin  
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For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth’s atmosphere — but no longer.

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.

The satellites’ main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists.

The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.

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One Response to “Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space”
  1. Man says:

    people come into this world with nothing, they leave with nothing… so, who owns the world or space or space rocks, etc??? …sounds like the little bully on his little sand pile… this is my sand (read: my fireball, my missile, my gun, my army, my whatever…)(wonder when God gave him the sand as his very own to keep forever and never to share?) and you play by my rules or get off my sand pile… some people never grow up!!! what a bunch of ridiculous and retarded childish garbage!!!

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