huge meteor hits near U.S. military base

[space otter]

Kathy Softsong
Published on Aug 3, 2018
Air Force remains silent after a huge meteor hits near U.S. military base
Aug. 03, 2018 - 1:52 - A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the U.S. Air Force has still not reported the event.
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Qronos16
Published on Aug 4, 2018
#USAirForce #meteor #militarybase  #meteorexplosion #ThuleAirForcebase #Grennland

The US Air Force failed to report a major meteor explosion near a military base in Greenland earlier this summer, leading to concern and confusion.

The explosion contained 2.1 kilotons of force and occurred just above an early-warning radar at the Thule Air Force base in June, according to Hans Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists. Mr Kristensen confirmed the explosion in a tweet on Wednesday, suggesting the meteor could have been mistaken by some as a "Russian first strike".
However, the US Air Force did not release a statement regarding the meteor or even tweet about the phenomena.
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[zorgon]

Gotta love how the media spins things LOL

Trump says:  "Black lived don't matter any more than any other lives" 

and the media blares the headline;

"Trump says Black lives don't matter!!!!"

And all the little Snowflake Trump haters gobble it up, retweet it a gadzillion times and no one wants to hear the TRUTH

A meteor hit close to a U.S. Air Force base in Greenland, it was confirmed by NASA but the Air Force has remained silent. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory listed the impact on their website. The impact occurred a little over 26 miles north of Thule Air Base on July 25. The meteor was traveling at 15 miles per second.

On August 3, the Military Times published an article with the headline, "No, a Meteor Did Not Destroy Thule Air Base." The Military Times attributed a Fox News report, that was "re-upped" from Australian media, for providing "rocket fuel for a frenzy of reporter calls to a surprised base and NASA spokesmen. Thule's media spokesperson, Steve Brady, of Peterson Air Force base in Colorado but handles Greenland's media inquiries, said, "No, we don't have any reports of damage, why are we getting calls on this now?"

https://heavy.com/news/2018/08/meteor-hits/

On August 1, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans M. Kristensen, tweeted about the meteor. Kristensen wrote that the meteor had 2.1 kilotons of force. He noted that the base, "Correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch."

Really? have Hu-mons become so paranoid abut Russians that the first thought was a Nuke Attack? When NASA already confirmed it was just a space rock?  Geez

All those reports of this meteor are showing asteroid size fireballs or nuclear bombs...  Talk about fear mongering 

[zorgon]

No, A Huge Meteor Did Not Threaten A U.S. Base With Total Destruction

Digging into the meteor incident demonstrates that it really isn't that big of a deal. Here's why.
by Brad Howard Jeff

On July 25th, a fireball graced the skies over icy Greenland near Thule Air Force Base, the U.S. Air Force's northernmost base and a key to its aerospace defense strategy. The meteor released 2.1 kilotons of energy over a installation designed to detect nuclear missile launches, which led to a predictable media freakout; Fox News posted a story about the incident beneath a picture of an explosion — definitely  not this one — with a mushroom cloud spilling from Earth into space.

But the freakout is wrong. Digging into the meteor incident demonstrates that  it really isn't that big of a deal . Here's why.

First, "The energy that came in with this was very limited," Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, told Task & Purpose.

The fireball above Thule, presumably a meteorite, exploded at an altitude of 43.3 kilometers — around 27 miles — and released the same energy as  a very low-yield nuclear weapon . By comparison, when a falling asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013, yielding tons of viral videos, it released 440 kilotons of energy at an altitude of 23.3 kilometers — shattering windows for miles around the city.

A 440-kiloton event is relatively rare; a much smaller explosion like the one over Greenland, however is not uncommon. In fact, according to NASA's  Jet Propulsion Laboratory fireball tracker , there was a 2.8 kiloton fireball on June 21st that entered the atmosphere roughly 200 miles southeast of Moscow. A meteor like the one that scared everyone in Chelybinsk in 2013 is only likely to make an appearance  every 60 years  or so, whereas a 2.1 kiloton fireball seems to pop up at least a few times per year.


Part of the reason that this even made news waves was the possibility of a fireball being misconstrued as a first strike by a nuclear nation. For obvious species-ending reasons, nuclear war is looked at as a negative thing. And a nuclear war started by a mistake would really make us look silly to future alien anthropologists trying to figure out why humans decided to end it all.  TWEET

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/no-huge-meteor-did-not-threaten-us-base-total-destruction-27937

FOX NEWS = PUBLIC ENEMY #1 

[zorgon]

Well searching for space rocks t the Nuke base lead me to some military files on Thule Air base

Seems they declassified one report in 2018 of crash of a B-52 carrying 4 Nuclear Weapons (the word "Nuclear" is blacked out )

So the Operation was called Crested Ice and the cleanup of contamination (A LOT OF IT) was done by guys with shovels, just like the Russians did at Chernobyl

PDF from DTIC (Warning DOT MIL LINK)

PROJECT CRESTED ICE
Declassified Aug 2 1994
USAF B-52 Accident at Thule,
Greenland, 21 January 1968
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283578.pdf

H-Bomb Armed B-52 Crash Cleanup in Greenland: "Crested Ice" 1968 USAF Strategic Air Command

[fansongecho]

Talking of Nuclear accidents / incidents Z -

I recall we had briefings on some of the US nuclear weapon losses back in the 80's when we were tasked with providing something like a "Triple Canopy"security detail for the RAF Greenham Common USAFE Nuclear 501st Tactical Nuclear Wing - (what a detachment that was! 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Greenham_Common

Thule and Spain accidents stuck in my head for some reason.

Z' have you read this book ?

https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_1/136-2996702-4060000?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VR4S00W1YKWPDRNQRT2N

The book was a brilliant read and the YT was very good as well -

The YT is here =

Did you know about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash

I also read a great book on civilian nuclear accidents, but cant recall the name at the moment about the accident that killed 3 workers at Idaho Falls Nuclear Testing facility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 -

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134169.Idaho_Falls

There was a fascinating back story to this about the entangled lives of the operators who died as well and their deaths were without doubt very grisly indeed 

YT link =

Cheers!

Fansongecho 

EDIT - Found this as well -

Edit - The dimensions of the B-36 were truly epic ! I never realised how F'ing huge the plane was -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

[zorgon]

Edit - The dimensions of the B-36 were truly epic ! I never realised how F'ing huge the plane was -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

Interesting story indeed I will have to dig it up. 

They said they were arming it when the accident happened... WHO were they going to drop it on?



I HATE Discovery Channel documentaries  The damn music is so over powering I can't hear what they are saying. Have to see what I can find that I cam listen to.

[fansongecho]

LOL, I just finished watching that documentary and I kept thinking "please, lose the music in the background!!!"

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Turn on the 'captions' feature. I know it's annoying sometimes, but at least you can understand what's being said.