Posted on 06/10/2009 8:47:48 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
N. Korea nukes a neighboring country (S. Korea?) - the U.S. responds in kind - China nukes the U.S. . . . etc, etc. ELE completed.
Russia, China, India and probably other countries have their own satellites in orbit. There are also private satellites that provide images for, say, Google Earth. Scientific loss will be the greatest for US scientists. Other countries will continue to feed sat images to their science.
To ensure secrecy of capabilities the DoD could, for example, give security clearances to a few people who will be working with original pictures. But I guess simple practical solutions are not wanted these days; it's much easier to throw the bathwater out, and the baby, and the bath itself for a good measure.
BTW, this is a great way to hide a nuclear detonation as an exploding comet (e.g. "No Muslims at fault for that flattened city"), or an exploding comet as a nuclear detonation ("Right wing extremists flattened that city").
Satellites have been killing satellites for years.
>N. Korea nukes a neighboring country (S. Korea?) - the U.S. responds in kind
What do you have against Canada? ;)
Cute!
>But I guess simple practical solutions are not wanted these days; it’s much easier to throw the bathwater out, and the baby, and the bath itself for a good measure.
“Keep the plug though, it might come in handy.” ;)
Yep, it’s the capability of the satellite in question...not the UFO side of the house. I don’t see an issue here...we don’t need to reveal capabilities.
The Nazi’s perfected “feuerballen” in WWII. We took up on those designs when secret weapon papers and plans were taken at war’s end. But, of course, I am just some nut who makes stuff up.
It’s possible that there is a new surveillance satellite, whose capabilities we do not wish to reveal. Handing out the data would at minimum run the risk of revealing those capabilities, or even just the mere existence of that new bird.
Well, free country and all that... makes this a little more of a delicate subject than simply issuing an imprimatur for universal data denial.
Besides, what's being blocked here is nothing less than the verification of non-threatening, visible space explosions. In the event of any such explosions, this decision will inevitably greatly increase fear in the population due to denying the availability of third-party non-threatening explanations.
But, if no such explosions are expected, why issue the security lockdown?
maybe we're expecting ET, or a made-up ET:
Jun 9, 2009 - Channel One TV, Israel claimed "an American official in Jerusalem" told Netanyahu, "We are going to change the world. Please, don't interfere." (this comment was viewed as threatening)
Jun 9, 2009 - Uruguay releases UFO files
May 10, 2009 - Italian AF releases UFO files
May 9, 2009 - Sweden opens online archive of UFO files
May 4, 2009 - Brazil releases UFO files
Mar 26, 2009 - Britian releases third round of UFO files
Feb 17, 2009 - Canada opens online archive of UFO files
Jan 28, 2009 - Denmark releases UFO files
Mar 14th, 2008 - Vatican City — Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God
now all this may be neither here nor there, but, I do recall Reagan wondering aloud, something to the effect that, maybe an outside threat to the world would be the one thing to bring the world together. And I also recall Bill Cooper's thoughts on this exact topic, some 10 years ago, as to how a phantom ufo threat could be used to wipe out all freedom. call me crazy but sumthin is in the wind.
forgot to add to the list:
April 21, 2009 - former Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, at National Press Club, claims government UFO coverup
Oh, I feel so protected by the 0b0z0b0ts.
If the electricity stays on, it was natural.
I’d add SF/Chicago/NY City/LA, among other locations throughout the U.S.
Perhaps they are now flying the ‘Delta blimp’/Aurora/Hammer of Thor/X-51 HCM/Minotaur/your fav black project.... Or not.
Simply because reporting what you know is one of the best ways of compromising the full extent of you're intelligence gathering capabilities.
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