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Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space
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Posted on 06/11/2009 12:30:47 PM PDT by Scythian



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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; fireballs; science; space
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1 posted on 06/11/2009 12:30:47 PM PDT by Scythian
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Maybe some of them aren’t “fireballs” - ya think.


2 posted on 06/11/2009 12:32:27 PM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: Scythian

Spaceballs?


3 posted on 06/11/2009 12:33:25 PM PDT by RexBeach
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Is Mel Brooks involved in the Space Balls?


4 posted on 06/11/2009 12:33:25 PM PDT by jessduntno (July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
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To: Scythian

Sorry that was just me after some Taco Bell and a BIC lighter......LOL


5 posted on 06/11/2009 12:34:30 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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To: Scythian

Jerry Lee Lewis sang soulfully of these back in the 1950’s. No reason for the government to clap “secret” on this now.


6 posted on 06/11/2009 12:34:45 PM PDT by spald
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Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space

Obama gave the order. He doesn't want the rest of us to know when the spaceships from his home planet arrive...

7 posted on 06/11/2009 12:34:54 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Scythian
Goodness, gracious!
8 posted on 06/11/2009 12:35:18 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Quix; Las Vegas Dave

>>>Ping<<<


9 posted on 06/11/2009 12:36:13 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Scythian
We went camping in northern New Mexico last summer. I was actually awakened several different times by meteorites and explosions in the sky.

There's a lot of activity in our atmosphere we don't usually see.

10 posted on 06/11/2009 12:36:44 PM PDT by wolfcreek (KMTEXASA!)
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The big one is headed our way and they don’t want mass panic?

The sky is falling!!! We’re doomed!!!


11 posted on 06/11/2009 12:37:19 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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Are the Star-Trek-classic Romulans attacking? They had some of the coolest weapons...


12 posted on 06/11/2009 12:40:12 PM PDT by kromike
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The big one is headed our way and they don’t want mass panic?

Yup. Mercury is about to collide.
13 posted on 06/11/2009 12:41:32 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Scythian
Spaceballs Pictures, Images and Photos
14 posted on 06/11/2009 12:42:15 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Ok, if that’s how they want to be, I won’t tell them about
what I’ve been seeing.........boy will they be sorry.


15 posted on 06/11/2009 12:46:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Snickering Hound

May the Schwartz be with you!


16 posted on 06/11/2009 12:47:30 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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To: Scythian

Star Blazers.


17 posted on 06/11/2009 12:48:51 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A GUTLESS SOCIALIST LOSER WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: wolfcreek

If I may ask where in N Mexico? Kit Carson Nat’l Forest?


18 posted on 06/11/2009 12:49:48 PM PDT by Man from Oz
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Fireballs from space. OOOOOO! Sounds so mysterious and otherworldly.

Meteroite sounds so, well....normal. Can’t use a word like that.


19 posted on 06/11/2009 12:51:52 PM PDT by Brookhaven (Obama hasn't just open Pandora's box, he has thrown us inside and closed the lid.)
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To: wolfcreek

Near White Sands Missile Range, perhaps?


20 posted on 06/11/2009 12:52:57 PM PDT by Hulka
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