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Incoming! Meteor or Comet Fragment Explodes Above Southwestern US, Prompting US Army 'Missiles' Cover-up

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 04:29 UTC

On Thursday morning, 13th September 2012, early risers from all over the southwestern United States - California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico - were stunned by the appearance of a vivid luminescent trail high up in the atmosphere. Photos taken by residents reminded me of the glowing trail seen across the Caucasus on the 7th June 2012 (which I have written about here). My suspicion that we were looking at the arrival and overhead explosion of yet another meteor or cometary fragment (MoCF) solidified when I read some of the ridiculous claims of the US Army that they had test-fired a rocket/missile at 5.30am local time on the 13th of September.

Folks contacted law enforcement in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado to report "a crash". A sheriff's deputy in northern New Mexico said he witnessed "an explosion" and part of the object breaking apart from the main body. No one reported a trail moving from the ground upwards, just a very fast-moving dot in the sky that produced a very bright trail mid-atmosphere, indicating that nothing was launched from the ground.

Damage control quickly went into operation, with Associated Press reporting that:

The "explosion" was a normal separation of the first and second stages of the unarmed Juno ballistic missile that was fired at 6:30 a.m. MT from Fort Wingate near Gallup, N.M., said Drew Hamilton, a spokesman for the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. The expended first stage landed in a designated area of U.S. Forest Service land.

The problem here is that there doesn't seem to be any information on anything called a "Juno Ballistic missile". There was Juno I, a large rocket booster used for satellite launches in the 1950s, while the Juno II was an American space launch vehicle used during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Having said that, there does appear to be a "Juno Target Missile" which appears to be a modified version of the booster rockets used on older generation space launch vehicles.

Strangely enough, Fort Wingate was supposedly shut down in 1993.

The Associated Press report got even weirder when it described not one but THREE missiles launched by the US Army:

The Juno missile was then targeted by advanced versions of the Patriot missile fired from White Sands, about 350 miles (560 kilometers) away, as part of a test. Two of the missiles were fired and hit the incoming Juno missile, said Dan O'Boyle, a spokesman for the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, which was in charge of the Patriots used in the test.

The Patriot missiles kill incoming targets by direct strike and don't explode.

Whatever about Patriot interceptor missiles "killing incoming targets by direct strike and not exploding", they are again stretching the bounds of credulity with this story about the US Army lobbing missiles at an expensive space rocket in order to blow it to smithereens over US territory. Watch and listen as the Army spokeswoman lies through her teeth about how this incident was "one of our very high-end, very intense things that we do out here... not one of our everyday things":

Now contrast the Associated Press account of what went down with the following report from a Utah-based media outlet:

It was the 14th missile launched from the Fort Wingate, NM area since the mid '90s. Depending on the sunlight, it's visible at times. The rising sun backlit the Juno missile's contrail and provided a spectacular morning sight for early risers across the region.

The winds in the various layers of atmosphere skewed the missile contrail, creating a swirly cloud pattern seen in the sky. The missile then returned to base.

[...] all debris fell on Army property. It just put on a light show in the process.

Returned to base?? Not only does that contradict the story about two Patriot interceptor missiles hitting the Juno rocket, this scenario is physically impossible because rockets and missiles do not "return to base"! Somebody somewhere down the chain of command must have got their wires crossed. It seems that this addendum to the story was required to account for the reports of part of the fireball/MoCF crashing to earth. Either way, they are getting really desperate in their explanations of the celestial phenomena taking place in our skies.

If missiles were launched in the vicinity of this celestial visitor, then I wonder if they were tracking this MoCF as it approached the planet before firing a missile or two in order to plausibly claim that what folks witnessed was "just a missile test"?

A Sott.net reader sent us the following eyewitness report and photo:

It was a ball of light streaking slowly across the sky. Then the ball of light dispersed and that was the moment I caught the picture and shot the video. It happened around 5:30am Phoenix Arizona time. There was only one streak with the ball of light at the head of it. There were no other streaks. The ball of light dispersed; seconds after it did, I snapped my pictures.

© Jason GlassThe trail left behind by another US military 'missile test' in September 2012, as seen from Arizona

Let's compare photos of Thursday's trail with trails left behind by previous (known) meteor/comet fragment airbursts:

© Linda & Dr. Dick BuscherLinda & Dr. Dick Buscher caught the trail left behind by the exploding comet fragment at their location in Anthem, Arizona, at the north edge of Phoenix, 5:41 am on 13th September 2012.

© Mohamed Elhassan Abdelatif Mahir (Noub NGO), Dr. Muawia H. ShaddadOn 7th October 2008, this twisted, high altitude trail was captured in a video frame during the early dawn over northern Sudan. The long-lasting persistent trail is from the impact of a small asteroid catalogued as 2008 TC3. That event was remarkable because it was the first time an asteroid was detected in space before crashing into planet Earth's atmosphere. In fact, after astronomers discovered 2008 TC3, the time and location of its impact were predicted based on follow-up observations. Later, the impact predictions were confirmed by sensors, including a Meteosat-8 image of a bright flash in the atmosphere.

© Brianna NPhoto taken at 6:45am, 18th November 2009 from Tooele County, Utah. Residents reported that they felt the meteor explode, while seismology monitors at the University of Utah picked up the overhead explosion.

Here be dragons: the eerie glowing trail left down by an overhead explosion on 7th June 2012, as seen from Astrakhan, southern Russia

A glowing trail left down by the meteor that exploded over Mendoza, Argentina on 29th September 2009.

Despite the feeble cover-up, most people have once again accepted the missile nonsense. But for how much longer will it hold out? In the past week alone, we had two Near Earth Objects zoom past us, ground fires in British Columbia started by an apparent overhead explosion that rained down fiery meteorites and Jupiter was impacted by a large body for the third time in four years. In addition to all the other ground fires started by fireballs/MoCFs in recent months, things are really heating up.

Keep your eyes on the skies...

See also: Reading Celestial Intentions Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Missiles, UFOs and the Cold War

Niall Bradley

A contributing writer at SOTT.net, Niall Bradley's articles are cross-posted on his personal blog, NiallBradley.net. Niall is co-host with Joe Quinn of NewsReal, and co-author of Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False-Flag Terror Attacks.

Reader Comments

Improvise · 2012-09-16T14:10:23Z

Thanks for the article, Niall

Another one that's going on my FB wall

MikeS · 2012-09-16T15:19:37Z

Human Engineering

Keep your eyes on the skies...
I like this last sentence and I agree 100%. Most of the people now almost never look at the sky.

I could see often myself strange geometric ( waves shape) clouds . And that is new. But if yes for sure it can't be any missile/rocket as it appears from the sky, it also can't be any meteor and less any comet.

A meteor and more a comet will create a fast bright but straight line "cloud" not these waved or round ones.

That is not at all natural, it's engineered.

Since the 1960" years we know they spray particles in the sky, since the 1990" years we had change our gasoline (100% from petrol) for a lead free gasoline having only 70-75% of petrol...

So what is in the 25-30 % of this non petrol based gasoline lead free?

No one knows. But all researches on that showed that in the air are now aluminum and others metals (most heavy metals)

All these metal particles could be managed and controlled, so moved using elector-magnetic tools.

It seems now we all (not only the planes ) spray in the air this shit and if really they are nano-particles then they can stand years in the air and so become more dense and so can react in a better visible and strong way when pushed under electro-magnetic fields.

And so is what we could look at and ask what is Haarp. What is it secret? why USA, RUSSIA, CHINA work on that military secret project?
A secret military international project playing with earth electro-magnetic fields.

If ever I'm wrong then the HAARP project and what is in our gasoline should be knew and no secret should hide it.

Meteors and Comets are real, but what we see now with these waves/round/square so geometric "clouds" in the sky seem only Engineered.

Niall · 2012-09-16T15:26:08Z

You mean chemtrails?

I've already dealt with those: [Link]

MikeS · 2012-09-16T17:01:29Z

Yes Niall
and that's why I told I agree 100% with you, to watch the sky to look at our world around.

I just didn't agree with you in the other paper because what they call chemtrails are not dreams.

If most of us was watching the real sky maybe we could have the power to ask and see what really Haarp is doing and maybe others secret unknown project.
And that is the saddest. Even if you can carry out someone out and look at the sky, mostt often not only they will see something wrong , but also they could tell you that your imagination is too strong (if you're not crazy).

Laura · 2012-09-16T23:55:38Z

MikeS, the whole HAARP/Chemtrail nonsense is a psy-op - a cover up - and you have bought it. Happy trails to you!

MikeS · 2012-09-17T04:20:05Z

Hi Laura, hmm, this comment place is not the best to open a debate
Shortly I will never tell I'm free of any psy-op.
But hard to think about psy-op when I had heard about that only few months ago as NONE french media had ever talk about it despite this European Parliament report dated 1999!

[Link]
And maybe too my pro weather station ( now often telling me there is only 20% or less of humidity in the air and we see around like a little fog as if the humidity was >60% ) .
I stay with my first thought, and hope Haarp will open all its doors so we could see that they are angels unable to manipulate the weather.
I'm just curious and ask for more free research and less military secrets no matter the topic.

Luke · 2012-09-16T16:46:07Z

Did it burn out or did it explode? If it exploded, wouldn't it be somewhat loud???

Does anyone see a problem with this quote?

"one of our very high-end, very intense things that we do out here... not one of our everyday things"

If they have this missile program around the world intended to hide cosmic phenomena, then why would they say, "not one of our everyday things".

Isn't it like something that will be happening more frequently??

nspire · 2012-09-16T17:45:17Z

Something lobbed into orbit -- will inevitably and naturally come back down -- depending upon the maximum speed and height that was obtained, before the rocket motor shut off ( if fast enough it is no longer ballistic, but is put into orbit ). Normal friction effects of the rarified atmosphere build up over time, provide the drag that inexorably plunges objects back to a burning re-entry.

In other wards, what goes up -- may take it's sweet time figuring out when to come down.

Things that explode when they get somewhere, use payloads that are explosives, but if one is just checking out the launch systems, they needn't include a real warhead -- so explosions are optional.

The explosive bolts that are used to connect and hold the rocket stages together, until their fuel is spent, would be seen but would not be heard on Earth. Remember this is happening miles up, and in very thin air -- and these bolts are more like firecrackers inside of bolts -- then bombs.

Luke · 2012-09-17T01:10:12Z

Oh thanks for the info nspire but I meant the meteorite/comet fragment.

DownunderET · 2012-09-16T17:02:17Z

Needles to say.............

We are being lied to on a monumental scale on just about everything, so this one justs fits the bill.

nspire · 2012-09-16T17:52:48Z

Yes, even the truths that we ARE told, are presented as if they're lies …

And worse still, we ( far too often ) convincingly tell ourselves deceitfully framed memes, manufactured consensus, and cognitive dissonance LIES, because for many that is so much less painful -- than waking up and become aware and conscious of what is.

When we begin to see why people are lead to choosing and even demanding heinous self-destructive patterns in their lives, we learn the jaw-dropping power of propaganda and start to see behind the Matrix's illusions.

nspire · 2012-09-16T17:27:06Z

TO Niall - Explanation of part of mystery

I have watched various Vandenberg missile tests over several decades, and have a simple explanation for what you describe:

" No one reported a trail moving from the ground upwards, just a very fast-moving dot in the sky that produced a very bright trail mid-atmosphere, indicating that nothing was launched from the ground. "

In the evening, the sun has already "set" ( in the West ) for that wedge-shaped portion of the sky between the ground and below where ( increasingly ) the Earth's shadow no longer allows the Sun's direct line-of-sight rays to illuminate.

The subtle truth, is that most people never consider that the sun has already been 'setting' in the sky above them for an hour or more, well before the Earth's shadow finds them on the ground.

WHAT WE SEE

As a rocket rises, it does carry it's own partial illumination along with it's trajectory, in the form of it's incandescent exhaust gases leaving it's tail -- but depending on the angle of sight, they may be visible or relatively not very bright.

It's an odd experience watching a launch, when a rocket perforates cloud cover, as the exhaust gasses light-up a circular pattern that is rapidly decreasing in size to nothing, just as the rocket disappears into that cloud layer.

Or the other hand, the photo provided is much like many I've seen, where the still bright direct sunlight illuminated the suspended forms iridescent convoluted cloud shapes, that are twisted and whipped around by the air currents at those elevations. These forms do appear to be suspended, with no trail leading back to Earth, as there is no sunlight available to light up those portions.

WHY & WHERE

Clearly the nominal Vandenberg rocket follows an arcing path ( S to N ) -- which is exaggerated by the visually confusing fact -- of the Earth's revolution ( W to E ) apparently dragging the vapor-trails or clouds in directions that it usually is hard to fully comprehend. The superposition of what the untrained mind expects ( straight line motion ) and the movement within the rocket's inertial reference frame ( Fighting to overcome Earth's gravity, attempting to escape that, to be captured by the Sun's gravity ).

Being close to the Equator -- Cape Canaveral launches Eastward, and makes effective use and gains the approximate 1000 mph velocity of the Earth spinning that in that direction. As one might remember from watching Apollo launches, the path projected back onto the globe looks like a sinusoid, moving Eastward while alternating going North and then South. This is consider an equatorial pattern or orbit, because it mostly is that.

The Military uses Vandenberg's much more Northerly location, because it makes use of polar orbits for spy satellites, which primarily travel N/S over and then between the Earth's poles, watching the Earth being continually revealed beneath, as it turns Eastward. The Military doesn't care about wasting fuel, as mission objectives of optimum spying are what it's all about.

There certainly are other orbits and launch trajectories, like for geo-synchronous, lunar, or traveling to other planets. The heavier the payload sent into orbit, the more expense and fuel is saved using Cape Canaveral ( or French Ariane's Guyana ). Once into space ( all but polar orbiters ) make good use of all of that Easterly velocity -- to move among the stars, and or go to the Space Station ).

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This may be rocket science,
but it's not that hard to understand …

Ruth · 2012-09-16T19:03:55Z

Lol, apparently 'rocket science' means we all just need a pat on the head and told to just go back to sleep again. Especially when the PTB get caught out in ever more ridculous lies, which they can't afford most of us realising are silly.

nspire · 2012-09-16T20:13:46Z

Hi Ruth,

It's none of my business as to what you think of me -- I grant you that your opinions are freely yours.

However, if you want to paint me as being one condoning and encouraging people to be more apathetic, an apologist, and/or perhaps even shilling for the despicable PTB -- than I do have my own freedom to state what I am about.

Exactly when has the use of logic, real-world experience, and conveying truth -- as best that I can -- been the subject of ridicule and personal attack ?

If I appeared to condescend and act all authoritarian -- that was not in any manner my intent.

I find it especially bizarre, that somehow you can construe anything that I wrote, as supporting "we all just need a pat on the head and told to just go back to sleep again," when the fact is that I challenged people who are asleep and running reactively on auto-pilot -- to wake up and decide for themselves what is more plausible.

Do you really have trouble entertaining the idea that the sunset's lack of sunshine illuminating part of a cloud -- is more likely to be the reason that we cannot easily see it ?

Or is more likely that you can and should be able to see things, even when there is no sunlight falling upon them ?

News flash, the lower portion of the ascending rocket's exhaust trail -- were in the shadow of the sun setting, while the upper portions were above that boundary, so they were illuminated.

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I would say, as a matter of the record, that almost everything reported by the mass media and govt is loaded to the gills with lies and misinformation.

Why am I being laughed at, for pointing out that some publishing on the liberal web media -- regardless of how well intentioned -- may at times be misinformed, and/or jumping to errant conclusions, that are far more unlikely than the truth that I attempt to convey ?

I made a 'joke' about rocket science -- because the article and some people's responses were clearly more imbued with seat-of-the-pants and creative thinking, and attempting to make sense of complicated events -- w/o understanding some and/or enough of the particular details that are directly relevant, and easily verifiable.

I don't mind if you think me "silly," but if you are using that as a lazy excuse to not bother to understand what is really going on, then I guess I know who is more interested in going back to sleep -- and thereby encouraging others to do similarly.

Do you want to wake people up -- about the PTB's heinous and despicable usurpations -- or NOT ?

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You are here reading SOTT, so I find is amazing that you act as if science and truth ( in the comments section ) are only the butt of jokes for you.

Or is it just your refined judgment, that I must be an agent of the PTB, and that I'm only posting here to bollux up those yearning to learn ?

If so, please do provide even a shred of evidence or indication -- that anything that I wrote is false … deceptive, or manipulative.

Do you believe that any article published on CD, must of itself be pre-judged as the absolute truth and that those of differing perspectives and interpretations are not desired, solicited, or acceptable - and thereby deserving of ridicule ?

Niall · 2012-09-17T01:34:40Z

It happened at 5.30am local time.

Neither Cape Canaveral nor Vandenberg were mentioned by the military - the missiles story had to be spun out of Fort Wingate and White Sands because they were close enough and desolate enough to sound plausible.

PRao · 2012-09-17T07:11:05Z

"Do you really have trouble entertaining the idea that the sunset's lack of sunshine illuminating part of a cloud -- is more likely to be the reason that we cannot easily see it ?

Or is more likely that you can and should be able to see things, even when there is no sunlight falling upon them ?"

Even if it is missile test, do you do the missile testing over civilian population with out any warning to the population ?. That is insane.

It is about the data. It has been proven for number of years, MSM and PTB is trying to coverup the meteorites. Else people will come out of drowsyness and sacrifice the ptb .

Missile tests will not create the loops. Missiles are either guided by trajectory ( either predefined coordinates Or guided by satellite ). Why the heck some body wants to create a looped trajectory for missile test . Even if some body creates it why ?. to coverup some thing ?.

Sim · 2012-09-17T11:14:50Z

What do you mean – "The subtle truth, is that most people never consider that the sun has already been 'setting' in the sky above them for an hour or more, well before the Earth's shadow finds them on the ground." ?

The higher you are, the further over the horizon you can see, and the longer you can see sunlight. It's lighter for longer the further up you go, the clouds are in full sunlight for hours after the sun has set on the gound. Seemingly the exact opposite of what you use as the basis for your explanation.

nspire · 2012-09-17T19:40:50Z

Dear Sim,

We completely agree, about this:

"The higher you are, the further over the horizon you can see, and the longer you can see sunlight. It's lighter for longer the further up you go, the clouds are in full sunlight for hours after the sun has set on the gound."

But certainly not this : "Seemingly the exact opposite of what you use as the basis for your explanation."

The issue I'm addressing, is that the flip slide of that which is illuminated at higher altitudes, which are those parts of the lower altitudes that are in the Earth's shadow and thereby not illuminated ( around both sunrise and sunset ), even though it is still considered during daylight.

My point is that that very shadow is not visible, as we would usually expect with similar corresponding visual clues.

Consider the stark difference, when we typically do see a clear line of demarkation along the ground, separating the illuminated portions from that which is in shadow. When dense clouds pass over head, on a sunny day, we often see their silhouetted shadows passing along the ground

The lack of easily seeing an upward rocket exhaust, that is no longer illuminated is my whole point, particularly when the upper portions are photographed and used as supposed proof that there is no lower connecting antecedent rocket exhaust evidence.

This is reminds me of that joke about the drunk looking for his lost keys near the lamppost at night, because he can see better there, even though he thinks the keys are over there elsewhere in the darkness.

It's an understandable reaction to our nominal experiences and lighting circumstances ( presuming when the top is lit, so is the bottom ) -- but where and when those conditions no longer apply -- it is an errant perceptual leap to presume that the lower portion of the rocket trails must therefor not be existence, because they're not easily seen or visible.

Niall · 2012-09-18T03:22:45Z

What are you trying to say now? That there was no visible launch trail because it was obscured from view? nspire, you are trying to see things that weren't there. [Link]

nspire · 2012-09-18T09:31:18Z

Hi Niall,

I do appreciate your expertise, dedication, and interest in responding to my questions, regarding your Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:22 CDT comment.

Yes, I suspect that "That there was no visible launch trail because it was obscured from view?"

What you don't seem to find believable, is that I have witnessed several Vandenberg Launches, which did form the same type of convoluted iridescent clouds ( they don't happen every time ). If you would look into known launches, you would find that there are coincidental observations of many independent folks, that proves this does happen from rocket launches

What is also extraordinarily challenging to convey, is that even in the best of circumstances that these types of clouds become visible after the launches have occurred, uniquely and oddly spread out in the sky, and because they linger colorfully over areas downwind and away from of the original area -- where accurate observations of vertical launch trails from the ground might have been visible and reportable.

What you appear to misconstrue, is that the people that see the beautiful clouds,
were watching the entire uninterrupted event, while they are often seeing exceeding
more obvious remnants of things that happened hours ago, at great distances away.

Seeing such launch clouds from LA looking North, is substantially after the time the launch occurred, and at a distance of a couple of hundred miles. Unless one knows exactly where to look, and only if one has enough elevation ( sitting on a Mt top ) to actually see over the Earth's curvature toward the launch location, than the initial upward movement is actually not observable.

Why would you expect most observers to have seen the actual launch as a direct observation, as that would've been extremely unlikely having occurred at such a remote distance ( mostly below the horizon ) ?

I actually have enough relevant experience in this, that I need not strive at all, as you say :

"nspire, you are trying to see things that weren't there"

It is you who claims the absence of any observations, seemingly proves that these "things that [a]ren't there," because "No one reported a trail moving from the ground upwards."

It is a logically incorrect to presume that the lack of an observation of something, proves that it has no existence -- particularly when you make the fact very clear that the high altitude remnants ( of that event, according to me ) were observed.

My direct experience suggests that such initial launch observations are understandably missing, often impossible being below the horizon, and are necessarily obscured in the shadows, even if one were looking towards them -- at exactly the correct time.

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Yes, I will admit there is a plausible and possible explanation of such high altitude clouds occurring from a "meteor or cometary fragment (MoCF)."

Although I will take exception to your description "a vivid luminescent trail," as such is defined by an 'emission of light by a substance that has not been heated, as in fluorescence and phosphorescence.' The portions of the observations that occurred when the rocket engine was still firing ( or meteor disintegrating ), would accurately be described as incandescence.

Yes it is and was shunning -- but the aftermath of twisted cloud patterns were not glowing of there own light, but were surprisingly unique and accentuated against a darkening sky.

You stated in the article more completely that "No one reported a trail moving from the ground upwards, just a very fast-moving dot in the sky that produced a very bright trail mid-atmosphere, indicating that nothing was launched from the ground. "

Again, the relative movement ( being upwards or downwards ) of that "very fast-moving dot in the sky that produced a very bright trail mid-atmosphere," is entirely outside of most observers capability to discern or understand. If it occurs during a well known meteor shower, then it is likely downward -- but if it occurs after a rocket launch is reported, then it is likely from an upward trajectory. In either case, one could be mislead or misinformed, and the opposite event might have occurred.

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Without a doubt, there are mysteries yet unknown and we all can benefit from having a sense of wonder and awe, which is part of what I do appreciate in your writing.

If I appear critical or judgmental than I have missed my mark, and my intention, as I am desiring only to add truth and build a greater collective understanding in my attempt to add my own perspective to that of your own. You are a public figure and I am anonymous, so I acknowledge your courage to put it all out there and still be vulnerable to respond to who knows what, might come up.

If I might be so bold to suggest, that we are both what might be described generously as rocket-less scientists -- or at a minimum -- people interested in knowledge and truth that appreciate the demands of science and endeavor to reach out to others and create something of value that didn't exist before.

nspire · 2012-09-18T10:10:41Z

RE pjms9's comment Mon, 17 07:11 CDT

Hi pjms9

I agree that carrying out "missile testing over civilian population with out any warning to the population ?. … is insane," but then it is also not necessarily true that it occurred where there was any risk to populated areas. Most launches are made over nearby oceans, and only for a short period of time are civilians at risk. Self-destruction can be arranged during failed launches or after, when the trajectory and telemetry is found to indicate a risk to people.

I don't doubt ( for a femto-second ) that the Military and corporations
are unnecessarily risking our lives and health every moment of very day.

We do live in a time where "greed at any cost" is rapaciously consumptive and heinously prevalent.

Yes, we should all be encouraging "people [to] come out of drowsyness and sacrifice the ptb," as we are all in this together, regardless of the PTB acting as if they're beyond the consequences of their insanity.

We completely disagree that "Missile tests will not create the loops," as I explained what really happens in my comments to Sim, at Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:40 CDT, and Niall at Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:31 CDT

Yes, of course, "Missiles are … guided [along their] trajectory" and course minor corrections are applied to maintain that track.

You unknowably put the horse behind the cart, in reasonably asking "Why the heck some body wants to create a looped trajectory for missile test," as the remnant clouds have a life of their own, well after the missile has passed by.

Does a random pattern of many people's footprints on a beach, necessarily mean that not a single person walked in a straight path ?

Niall mentions in the article that this started as "very fast-moving dot in the sky that produced a very bright trail mid-atmosphere," and clearly one really cannot afford ( nor comprehend ) anything other than a straight path, either up from the ground or down from the skies. Making extreme turns at high velocity is what often causes rockets ( or airplanes ) to then explode, as being incapable of handling the extreme acceleration and disintegration then occurs.

nspire · 2012-09-18T10:16:29Z

ERRATA : TO pjms9

pjms9,

Please read my reply to Vulkan_X, at Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:53 CDT -- regarding the shape and pattern of the twisted clouds.

My referring to my comment to Sim ( to you ) was misapplied, as you didn't mention the issue of the rocket's ascent being obscured within the Earth's shadow.

mtnman · 2012-09-16T18:36:19Z

Thanks, Naill:

Comparing the photos of known meteor explosions it seems very likely that this most recent was one as well. Probably, no missiles involved at all.

I've been reading Laura's book The Apocalypse. Here again, the MSM and PTB are attempting to project the "nothing worry about, we have the situation well in hand" theme.

They can't admit that there are some things they cannot control.

Who needs science fiction in world like this.

dugdeep · 2012-09-16T19:53:24Z

Great Article

This series is really invaluable, Niall. Watching the feeble cover up in real time is really something to behold. Thanks for sharing your research.

Vulkan_X · 2012-09-16T20:46:08Z

I'm no expert but...

... These objects don't seem to be comets or meteors neither any other type of "free falling" space junk or debris.

1- comets/meteors or space junk allways fall in one direction. they don't "change heading suddenly" or "dance around" in the sky, it is physically impossible for a falling object to do that, unless the forces are being manipulated somehow (like when a pilot maneuvers an airplane) or it strikes an other object! In the most, "free falling" space objects might descend in a very wide semi-arch heading do to increasing gravitational atraction as they aproach earth, but thats it! The excuse that the wind made the traíls get all twisted is also crap in my Point of view. When we look at the contrails of a high altitude airliner in a windy day do we actually see the wind affect the contrail so "radically"? Not really...

2- As we all know, comets/meteors do leave a "glowy" trail behind... But that trail's "glow" usually disapears in a matter of seconds after the main object itself is completly destroyed...

Whatever it was, it was no missil, but also does not seem to be a comet or meteor... But i guess the government/military does know what happened... If not, why obviously attempting cover-Up (although poorly, i must say...)?

Laura · 2012-09-16T23:58:53Z

You obviously haven't researched the topic very thoroughly, have you? Read Mike Baiilie's books "From Exodus to Arthur" and "The Celtic Gods." Then, read Clube and Napier's: "The Cosmic Serpent" and "The Cosmic Winter." What you are seeing in the images above is exactly why the ancients called them "dragons."

nspire · 2012-09-17T19:53:08Z

Vulkan_X,

Says that the "excuse that the wind made the traíls get all twisted is also crap in my Point of view."

Perhaps it is a combination of the rocket traveling both Northward and the Earth turning Eastward underneath those heated exhaust trails that are also moving and cooling, that acts in conjunction with various strong winds occurring in different directions ( remember the jet stream ? ) at different altitudes and locations ?

BTW, I do accept the fact, that oblique and downward traveling meteor trails can and do potentially produce the same type of twisted "dragon" patterns

Vulkan_X · 2012-09-18T21:56:13Z

Laura,
You're right, i do admit that i haven't taken the time to look Up further details on this subject yet. But will do When possible. My comment is strictly based on the photos, video And what is written above. But thanks for the tips, i'll look it up soon.

nspire,
I'm no scientist, but let's just say i have a very good knowledge and understanding about aerodynamics, weather And aeronautics, i have also spent countless hours observing the night sky since i was a small boy And at my homeland the weather usually is relatively unstable, very windy 2 days per week on average... I've seen allot of "stuff", so to speak, but i haven't ever seen things like these before, and the thing i saw once with what i could consider the closest appearance to these, was on national news on my country as being a UFO.
We must not forget wind only exists where there is air (unless you want to talk about solar winds, but thats a diferent story.) . by looking carefully at some of the photos, and by the way they look, these traíls (at least part of each one) seem to be at very high altitudes, i even take the risk saying above the stratosphere (in the mesosphere, although i do admit that this cannot be guaranteed just by looking at the footage/photos above) where as you certainly know, air does not exist (no air=no wind. Simple.) which, by the way, is way above jet stream altitudes (jet stream altitudes are roughly between 22000ft and 53000ft MSL, depending if they are polar or tropical).

joaodualiby · 2012-09-16T21:46:12Z

Dragons in the Sky

These tracks resemble the image of dragons in Chinese paintings.
It would be a form of expression of the collective memory of an event in antiquity?

Laura · 2012-09-17T00:02:18Z

Exactly! Many events in antiquity, as the records show. See comment above for sources including much older images of the same, exact things, LONG before there were rockets or HAARP.

Believe me, folks, this is one of the main things the PTB do NOT want you to know: that we ARE in the midst of a very dangerous period of comet flux and it could be fatal to millions or billions in more ways than one and THEY are NOT in control. In fact, it could be said that the "gods" are angry.

poooolish · 2012-09-17T11:18:40Z

dragons etc. ...

yes, it's really interesting how that explains the depictions of dragons in ancient chinese art ... that's one of the first things that came to my mind when i saw this recent picture ...
i wonder whether that's also the origin of the tales of dragon slayers and monsters vs. the lone hero etc. in ancient folk lore ... ?

i can't believe though how lame those are who try to cover up those events: how long do they think they can keep up the charade? do they REALLY believe they can cover up the UNIVERSE??? LOL ... how delusional do you have to be ??? those losers are going DOWN !!!!

thinking about this and all the other brainwashing that is in place regarding - every aspect of our lives frankly ... i find it absolutely crazy how there seem to be absolutely no difference to medieval times in regard of how much we know and what we believe to be true ... people are wondering around in total darkness in the same exact fashion ... total darkness !! and the thing is: the matrix is so profound, that when people think they got hold of a piece of truth, it turns out that in reality they have only fallen for another ruse ... !!!

it will be very interesting though to see how all this will play out ... i guess we will find out soon enough ...

Laura · 2012-09-17T16:18:36Z

That's the gist of it, poooolish. And the comparison to medieval times is right on the money.

Rgx · 2012-09-18T08:49:21Z

" it will be very interesting though to see how all this will play out ... i guess we will find out soon enough ..."

I just hope one doesn't land on my head! It seems reports of fireballs etc. are increasing at an alarming rate around the world and it would be a shame to have finally connected a few dots only to then miss the big finale...

trevo · 2012-09-17T18:54:04Z

re: Historcal dragons

"In this year terrible portents appeared in Northumbria, and miserably afflicted the inhabitants: these were exceptional flashes of lightning and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air."

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Year 793)

nspire · 2012-09-18T11:53:48Z

Support from SOTT article

I just read an earlier article about this same event, that independently -- validates much of what I posted here ( see [Link]).

See "Disguising Celestial Intentions? US Military claims it launched three test missiles over Southwestern US"

The particular portion that I want to reiterate, are:

" The amazing night sky sight was created by the launch of an Army Juno missile early Thursday from Fort Wingate in New Mexico, which soared high into the atmosphere on its way to the White Sands Missile Range to be intercepted by a Patriot missile. The unarmed Juno rocket flew so high that its long contrail reflected sunlight from the yet-to-rise sun, sparking a dazzling night sky light show. "

and poignantly … about how much 'overhead' and actually extremely distant this all was :

" Marlin said her office received more than 100 calls and a flood of emails from observers who saw the Juno rocket's contrail from states across the Southwest. According to the Associated Press, the missile test led to widespread reports from people who regarded the shiny rocket exhaust as a UFO sighting in the sky.

Marlin said she received calls from as far away as Denver, Salt Lake City in Utah, Las Vegas and Los Angeles reporting the sighting."

and

" Conditions were just right for it to be seen from far away," Marlin said, adding that the view was caused when the Juno missile's exhaust froze in the upper atmosphere. "When it freezes, those little ice crystals act like prisms to reflect sunlight. It creates that amazing light show." "

and very significantly, to address the creation of the convoluted patterns of the very high altitude exhaust clouds :

"Because the contrail crossed several layers of the Earth's atmosphere, it was sculpted by high altitude winds, perhaps surprising observers used to seeing the straight-line contrails from airplanes, she added. "

-- -- -- -- --

Thanks to those who've persevered to continue reading through this metaphorically convoluted but illuminating discussion of what is more likely to have occurred.

Yes, the article came from FOX news, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it consists only of lies.

Niall · 2012-09-18T15:16:14Z

"Thanks to those who've persevered to continue reading through this metaphorically convoluted but illuminating discussion of what is more likely to have occurred."

Yes, we've had quite enough of it, thank you. You're welcome to perform all sorts of mental gymnastics to make the government version fit with your beliefs but it won't change the fact that what folks saw last Thursday morning was not a US Army rocket being taken out by two Patriot missiles and returning to White Sands Air Force Base.

nspire · 2012-09-18T16:48:47Z

I have absolutely no interest in supporting the corporate govt's BS denials and evasions.

I sincerely believe that if anything at all is true -- it is fact that the real truth -- is the greatest threat to hegemony and usurpation, and that it will inexorably set us free.

I've seen the title of a dot-connector article from you about ( what I suspect you wrote about ) the despicable and deceitful undermining of SCIENCE, and I was predisposed to consider that you were open to a collective enterprise that we all participate in.

I really don't know what happened, but the points I have made are the best that I know that is true.

I never denied a single observation of what anyone saw and reported ( "what folks saw last Thursday morning" ), although what I spent time endeavoring to do, was make the best possible sense of those facts, consistent with other verifiable facts.

I don't understand what drives you to think that govt hasn't successfully been demonstrating Star-Wars capability for some 30 years -- or perhaps you do -- and just see this recent admission as a pretense for covering up something worse.

-- -- -- -- --

I do know for an absolute fact, that the govt has long been covering up the number and degree of "meteor or cometary fragments (MoCF)," so I am not at all opposed to ( what I believe is ) your essential message.

nspire · 2012-09-18T12:08:49Z

NIALL - Star Wars has been & will be …

I want to address another one of your comments :

" they are again stretching the bounds of credulity with this story about the US Army lobbing missiles at an expensive space rocket in order to blow it to smithereens."

Actually, not.

I know for a fact that during the 80s that the military not only launched such demonstrations on empty ( relatively low value but expensive objects ), but they wanted to have absolutely definitive knowledge of exactly when they destroyed what they were aiming at.

I don't recall the name or exact date of its demise -- but it was a solar observing satellite that still had ( perhaps ) decades of life left in in, that was re-purposed as a "smart target," that is one that was talking with its ground controllers until the very moment when it was perforated and thereby destroyed.

This is easily verified, as many scientists were awaiting daily data dumps -- and they were understandably outraged by this totally destructive usurpation by the military of civilian systems

Laura · 2012-09-18T16:16:03Z

I think I've had enough of this bot on the payroll of the Pentagon.

eidolon · 2012-09-18T20:14:58Z

Wow, just wow.
I'm having a hard time understanding the vehemence here. Both sides have valid points, but I only see one side claiming that they "know" the truth.
nspire has just been pointing out that a rocket launch can in fact produce this phenomena - I've seen Vandenberg launches from the mountains of Southern California, and I concur. I don't see any place where nspire states that he knows that that this is what occurred in this case, just that the possibility should not be too hastily discounted. As a person trained in a scientific field, I find this a valuable addition to the discussion. It's how scholarly debate works, ideally, if not every time in actual practice.

I've even seen a Vandenberg launch from Northern Cal, in the east Bay, back in 77 or 76, about an hour after sunset. The missile went off course, and was caused to self destruct. It appeared at first as an oddly slow moving shooting start leaving a glowing trail, about 45 degrees above the horizon, then suddenly became a bright point of light that expanded quickly into an iridescent sphere, 3 or 4 times larger than the apparent size of the moon. All totally silent. The sphere persisted for several minutes before fading away.

So thank you, nspire, for trying to help.
And thank you Niall and Laura for a valuable website that covers so much ground and tries to discover the truth; an admirable goal. Just I hate to see you like this.

Peace out,
---e

Raintree · 2012-09-18T20:45:31Z

To eidolon:

What you are stating is possible, but not probable for this case. What Niall has connected together based on what the media has said - in a contradictory manner mind you - is what makes more sense in being the probable case of events.

I will be sharing this article with my little circle of friends and family. Better to know about what probably is happening on planet earth, even though it is terrifyng, then to not know. At least that way, they can be more mentally, emotionally, and perhaps spiritually prepared for what is coming.

eidolon · 2012-09-18T22:11:14Z

;-) Raintree

Good. I'm an adherent of the Electric Universe theory, and I believe the next few years will be too interesting for comfort, earth-changes-wise. Much can be said (and has, lol) about the "Mayan Prophecies", but it is strangely coincidental to me how the end of the cycle coincides with our passing through the galactic plane, a more energy and matter rich environment.

But this does not make every data point significant, or immediately understood.
I worked as a photo editor for several publications during college, which made me cynical about the media.
Just as being a science student made me cynical about most of what passes as science.
The inconsistencies here are indeed laughable, especially the part about about a rocket "returning to base."
LMAO
But newspapers these days are about selling ads; journalists aren't scientists or engineers; and editing is a bad joke.
Much more attention is paid (has to be paid) to getting the ad copy right.
So I see stupid inconsistencies as possible evidence of coverup, perhaps, but not necessarily compelling evidence - you see the difference.

Just trying to make peace here and remind everyone that science is about keeping an open mind and juggling possibilities.
Yeah it's harder than dogma and not everyone can do it, not even those working in science. But it's worth the effort.

I applaud your effort to bring this information to your circle! Just never be too sure about any one thing. Keep a broader perspective, keep up the search, and Question Authority, even if the authority is you.
Process, not product; journey, not destination.

Be well, you and yours.
---e

Niall · 2012-09-19T05:08:48Z

More Pentagon types doing tag team trolling. This "I saw rockets launch from Vandenberg in the 70s/80s" is getting old.

Ruth · 2012-09-19T05:31:45Z

Well I'd like to propose a musical 'toast' to nspire. As anybody who knows me probably knows, yes I probably do need more sunshine and clouds in my life....Anyhow... But, I'm sorry if I've offended anyone by having a giggle. Not going to stop me though. Enjoy.

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