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A loud clap of thunder on a cloudless night? Australian Air Force claims it was 'undertaking essential night-time intercept training'


ABC News
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:46 UTC
A loud noise heard all around the eastern Darling Downs had southern Queenslanders scratching their heads, until the Air Force put up their hand.

"F/A-18F Super Hornets were undertaking essential 'intercept' training in the 'western airspace' of RAAF Base Amberley, which incorporates the Toowoomba region," a Defence spokesperson says.

"Regrettably the training was louder than anticipated, and some residents experienced more aircraft noise than usually occurs, when Air Force uses the western airspace...our pilots and crews need experience in a range of environments. This includes day and night flying, high and low altitude flying (below 500 feet or 150 metres) and bombing and strafing practice."

The Airforce is investigating the "disruption".

Comment: Interesting, less than two months ago, another fireball exploded over the same region:

Bright meteor lights up Eastern coast of Australia

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Probable fireball spotted high in the sky above Waterloo, Canada


CTV News
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:35 UTC
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© Joanne BuchanThe fireball was seen from Waterloo, Ontario on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013.
What streaked through the sky in Waterloo's north end Monday night?

Multiple viewers in the neighbourhood sent in photos and video of a flaming object moving through the sky shortly before 8 p.m.

Aaron Coker was walking out of his Glen Forrest Boulevard apartment when he saw the mystery object to the south.

"I saw something coming out of the sky," he says.

"It appeared to be a plane at first. After a minute, it decided to dip down and hang in the sky for about 10 minutes without moving."


Comment: The 'expert' has no clue has true those words are!

The eyewitness doesn't think it was a plane, and we tend to agree with him. The 'expert' says it probably was a plane, but he either disregards or didn't hear the eyewitness's statement that it's stationary appearance ruled out something jet-powered. And note the reporter's parting comment about 'theorists'.

Why insinuate that calling this what it probably was, yet another comet fragment/fireball passing through the upper atmosphere, is 'conspiracy thinking' unless you're trying to deny the obvious?

Wethinks the reporter doth protest too much!

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Video of meteor exploding above California, 12 August 2013 - Fireball leaves behind smoky trail of dust

Sarah Griffiths
The Daily Mail
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:08 UTC
The extraordinary moment a meteor exploded in the Earth's upper atmosphere has been accidentally captured by a U.S. photographer and designer.


Michael K. Chung was photographing the 2013 Perseids Meteor Shower last week when he managed to record the rarely-seen event of a meteor breaking apart in the Earth's atmosphere.

Initially the designer thought he had photographed a meteor explosion and the debris scattering during his time lapse sequence, but in fact he captured the rocky body being 'torn apart' in the upper atmosphere.
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Sequester shuts down space surveillance system

Chris Carrington
activistpost.com
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:14 UTC
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© ESAThis computer simulation depicts
the density of space junk circling the plane
The 'space fence', which is officially known as the US Air Force Space Surveillance System, is going to be shut down on October 1st this year.

The system, which is a multi-station radar, tracks satellites, meteoroids and space debris that is heading our way. The radar stations are scattered across the southern USA and can detect objects some 25,000 miles away from the Earth. The tracking devices form a crucial part of our defenses against all types of space matter likely to cause damage to the planet.

The Congressional sequester imposed automatic budget cuts meaning there just isn't the cash to run the service past October 1st. It's worrying in the extreme that the government thinks it's reasonable to shut down such a critical part of our defense system. As more and more satellites are blasted into orbit from countries around the globe it's not difficult to work out that more and more of them will eventually crash back to Earth.

Comment: See also -

Military hush up: Incoming space rocks now classified

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Two large meteor events: Loud booms over Memphis Tennessee and great video from Canberra Australia


strangesounds.org
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:25 UTC
Two very large fireball events occurred over Memphis, Tennessee, USA and Canberra, Australia. However, nothing or not much was said about these two sky phenomena either on the news or by authorities. We are lucky this was not another Russian situation!

Large Metor during daytime in Memphis, TN on August 14 2013

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A loud boom accompagnying this meteor was reported in Missouri. According to this same witness, the booms broke her windows. Look at this link for more information.


Amazing Meteor Video Over Canberra Australia on August 13 2013

This report was submitted on this website. It occurred at 9:36pm local time (Australia), and the fireball was flying in the SSW direction with a magnitude between -10 and -15
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Global dust veil: Dust belt from the overhead cometary explosion in Russia raced around the world in just four days

Ellie Zolfagharifard
The Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:57 UTC
  • The meteor created a 50-foot hole in a frozen lake near town of Chelyabinsk
  • Around 3.5 hours after the explosion, its dust belt moved east at 190 mph
  • In four days, the belt had snaked its way around the entire planet
  • It released 30 times more energy than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima
    • The meteor that exploded over Russia in February caused a thin stratospheric dust belt that travelled around the world in just four days.

    NASA satellites made the unprecedented measurements of the meteor which is thought to have released 30 times more energy than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

    The meteor fireball measuring 18 meters across and weighing 11,000 metric tons, screamed into Earth's atmosphere at 41,600 mph.

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    Satellite data from Nasa has revealed that that four days after the bolide explosion, the faster, higher portion of the plume (red) had snaked its way entirely around the northern hemisphere and back to Chelyabinsk in Russia

    Comment: Are SOTT.net readers beginning to understand why we've been warning for years about comet dust veils covering the planet? Just one bolide can circle the northern hemisphere in 4 days! THOUSANDS of bolides have exploded in recent years...

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    Best of the Web: Meteor that crashed in Russia was part of a 656-foot wide asteroid that broke off during its orbit around Earth

    Victoria Woollaston
    The Daily Mail,UK
    Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:04 UTC
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    The meteor fireball, pictured, that crashed into Russia in February was part of a 656-feet wide asteroid called 2011 EO40. Spanish astrophysicists analysed fragments of the meteor and claim it came from the Apollo asteroid that regularly crosses passed Earth as it orbits the sun
    Experts say the meteor weighed 10,000 tonnes and was 55 feet wide

    The rock created a 50-foot hole in a frozen lake near Chelyabinsk

    Scientists have analysed more than 53 tiny fragments of the meteor

    It is thought to have been part of a large Apollo asteroid called 2011 EO40

    The meteor fireball that crashed into Russia in February was part of a 656-foot wide asteroid called 2011 EO40.

    Spanish astrophysicists analysed fragments of the meteor that were scattered across the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, where the meteor landed, and claim it came from the large Apollo asteroid that regularly crosses passed Earth as it orbits the sun.

    They added that the piece may have broken off because of the stress caused by the gravitaional pull of the planets and the sun, or could have been caused by the asteroid hitting into something else during its orbit.

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    Best of the Web: RT presenter: 'They can spy on all of us all of the time, but they can't tell us when one of these asteroids are gonna hit us?'


    Russia Today
    Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:50 UTC
    The panic and havoc seen in the Russian Urals last winter when a meteor the size of a house exploded in the skies, may be set for a repeat. Scientists say the huge rock might not have been flying solo as first thought, but rather as part of a group of asteroids which still pose a threat to Earth.

    Comment: Yes, it does boggle the mind, doesn't it? All these years they have poured money into ways of controlling people rather than looking after their well-being and future... and now we are left completely exposed to civilization-destroying cometary catastrophe.

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    THREE fireballs filmed from night-cam at Sakurajima Volcano in Japan, 20 July 2013

    dAS aLL-EINE
    YouTube
    Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:55 UTC
    The following footage appears to show three meteor/fireball/comet fragments falling through the sky over the very southern tip of Japan on July 20, 2013. In the foreground we see Sakurajima Volcano, in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture. The volcano has been very active lately, erupting several times in recent years.

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    Probable comet fragment or meteor burns bright across Australian sky

    Richard Bruinsma
    Sunshine Coast Daily
    Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:20 UTC
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    © Willem Bruinsma Willem Bruinsma snapped this burning light in the sky at Noosa National Park.
    Experts believe a mysterious bright light in the sky north of Noosa was probably caused by the sun's light on a jet's contrail.

    The phenomenon appeared to be soaring across the sky for at least 20 minutes, just after sunset on Sunday.

    Owen Bennedick, of Wappa Falls Observatory, said it was likely to be an atmospheric event, as a meteor usually lasted a maximum five seconds.

    He added that the presence of any comets at the time would have been well documented.

    Comment:
    Owen Bennedick, of Wappa Falls Observatory, said it was likely to be an atmospheric event, as a meteor usually lasted a maximum five seconds.
    Presumably they meant to write 'unlikely'. Mr Bennedick ought to study the behaviour of fireballs and meteors - they can remain visible in the sky for hours.
    He added that the presence of any comets at the time would have been well documented.
    Comets, fireballs, and meteors, far from being 'well-documented', are largely ignored.

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