Was the West, Texas Explosion a Meteor Impact?

FWIW

"The horrific explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant on Wednesday came from a more unlikely source than you might think. The chemical stored there is not generally considered as much of a fire or explosion risk as other nitrogen-based fertilizers. But it seems that under certain conditions, what’s been thought of as a safe chemical can turn deadly.
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Ammonium nitrate, a combination of nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, is a lot more volatile, prone to combustion and reaction, thanks to the fact that it is a strong oxidant. (Anhydrous ammonia can be converted to ammonium nitrate using nitric acid.)

So what caused the explosion at the West plant? Something grimly ironic. City University of New York physicist Michio Kaku told CBS News that the water firemen were using to fight a routine fire may have set off a chain reaction of explosions.

“The [Environmental Protection Agency] regulations say it's OK to have this amount of material, because nothing's going to happen, but there's a rare sequence of events, the right pressure, temperature and right amount of water will set off anhydrous ammonia," Kaku told CBS.

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"According to news reports, the West Fertilizer plant—which is located close to schools and residences—was storing as much as 54,000 pounds of the dangerous gas at the site as recently as 2007.

According to a report filed by Texas regulators and reviewed by The Dallas Morning News, the stored fertilizer posed no fire or explosive risks. The worst possible scenario, the report said, would be a 10-minute release of ammonia gas that would kill or injure no one.

Wednesday's explosion, which happened around 7:50 p.m., suggested otherwise. Beyond the death toll, which authorities said was unclear, the blast injured dozens of people and was compared to a "nuclear bomb" by some witnesses.

The ultimate cause of the explosion, which decimated a four-block area around the factory and shook the ground as far as 50 miles away, is still under investigation.

Sgt. William Patrick Swanton of the nearby Waco police department said authorities are not sure if the fire and the subsequent explosion was an accident or the result of an intentional act, according to ABC News.

"We are not indicating that it is a crime, but we don't know," Swanton said. "What that means to us is that until we know that it is an industrial accident, we will work it as a crime scene."
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The plot thickens

I must ask the question why would the PTB want us to think the explosion was caused by 200+tons of ammonium nitrate if the nitrate was not being stored at the site? The last video of the apparent object streaking in at a low angle causing the explosion looked like a missile. A small missile warhead with the equivalent of 200+tons of ammonium nitrate is impressive. Maybe it was a test of a very potent missile warhead that appears to be conventional. Maybe the fire was used as a cover for the test of the warhead and the size of the explosion necessitated coming up with the 200 tons of ammonium nitrate to explain the magnitude. It is a reasonable stretch to propose that ammonium nitrate was being made with the anhydrous ammonia and stored. But if this was false, then it is essentially a false flag test operation apparently with a warhead that they did not know the exact capability of. This is a lot of conjecture and we will need to wait for any additional evidence to surface. Note, that if this was a test, they were careful to arrange the final trajectory approaching through the smoke plume downwind from the fire.

Postscript

"Admittedly, the one problem I have with the Texas explosion being caused by a meteorite is how to explain the fire that was burning before the explosion. "

String of Pearls effect. You don't have to assume that there was only 1 piece of meteorite OR that every piece of a string of fragments is going to hit a different place. Admittedly, the odds are astronomical but not impossible.

Here's another one

very good slowed down video on YT of this event
blast from the sky
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Yes,

it does look like high velocity object hit the plant.

Apparently, a month before the explosion there was a gas leak at the plant so severe that " the school close to the plant had sent parents a note explaining that children had been moved for the day to a different location because of smells coming from the fertilizer plant, Marquez-Perea said."[Link]
Maybe, changes in the electrical status of the air or sudden temperature rise caused by approaching meteorite, ignited the gas that was already been leaking?

BTW, on the same day there was a fire at ExxonMobil refinery in South Texas that left 12 contract workers injured [Link]"ExxonMobil spokeswoman Rachael L. Moore said the fire happened around 10:30 a.m. in a process unit that was down for maintenance."

I know the media lies about everything, but what's their logic in not saying it was a meteor (if it was)? Is the USSA immune from space rocks? Heck look at the huge crater in Arizona.

It's interesting..

It would be awesome to have a sort of topographical view of the place beforehand. Then which building was on fire and if there was a taller structure to the left of the fire. The thought being there could have been a b.l.e.v.e (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) from a tank sitting higher up, getting heated, ruptured (the missile hissing sound) and then the out-gassing chemical(s) ignited.

I do however think there was a reason for all this. Forgotten generally are Monsanto/Obama, N. Korea, CISPA.. and a few other recent lynchings of alleged freedumb and demonocracy.

Yes, the plot thickens..,

In the article " West fertilizer explosion? Target? Monsanto?" [Link] a strange story is told about this plant. In 2007 the plant owners filed a law suit against Monsanto Co. "The suit... claimed that Monsanto artificially inflamed prices for its herbicide Roundup through anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer, believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast. The suit was filed by Texas Grain Storage Inc. The company now calls itself West Fertilizer Co....

...A court filing in 2008 indicated that Texas Grain Storage recently had been sold. Emil Plasek is listed as a former owner...

... Many documents in the case are sealed, and the public documents don’t reveal the names of the plant’s then-current owners. Texas corporation records list the president of the company as Donald R. Adair, and show a business operating as Adair Grain Inc. at the same address...

...Texas Grain Storage was represented by roughly 30 lawyers at 12 firms, according to court records....

...Thursday, a Monsanto spokesman said, “The long dormant lawsuit filed by Texas Grain had nothing to do with fertilizer or the operation of the West, Texas plant.”

Well, what was it about, then? And how it might relate to what happened a couple of days ago?

If it were a meteorite...

Question: What did ignite the fire in that fertilizer factory? Was it hit twice or it attracted a small stone fragment? In the spanish article says that some people witnessed a fire ball at 100 meters above the place. But no source about that was confirmed yet.

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"Los vecinos aseguran que vieron "una enorme bola de fuego de casi 100 metros de altura". "

"Like a nuclear bomb", it does sound like the russian impact.

Possible Simple Explanation

Fires often burn incompletely, leaving highly combustable fumes and aerosols in the downwind plume.

It is conceivable to me, that the motion moving from left to right, was simply the back-burning ignition of one of those plumes, that might have been ignited with a particular combination of gas pressure and air mixture ( e.g. process of vaporization, boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE), or look into daisy cutter fuel air explosions ), along with either embers or other smaller less visible plumbs that reached around and were already on fire ( or reached a critical temperature / density) -- appearing to enter from stage left.

See "rapid phase transition explosion (RPT)" ( [Link]and BLEVE [Link])

See "LNG vapor is only explosive if within the flammable range of 5%-15% when mixed with air." ( [Link] )

In other words, I reject the notion that something material initially coming from downwind had to have created the observed play of light -- as this was just before the explosion's radially directed energy. What I mean by material is a meteorite or missile -- not the plasma of flame consuming airborne fuel.

It also makes sense to me, that just before the explosion, that what ever blew up, was becoming optimally volatile and perhaps as the heat was increasing, momentarily the burning's thoroughness wasn't as effective.

Sure, it's somewhat counter-intuitive, but a powerful flame consuming fuel, doesn't much care which direction the wind is blowing -- it's acting much like a fuse

As far as sound is concerned, the rapidly escaping rocket propellant gasses, are in many ways equivalent to any pressurized container explosively venting -- other than having an optimally design nozzle, and the high speed Doppler generating movement of that nozzle.

Namaste

Based on recent events

Hi,
I'm not sure how many of you believe that the Russian meteorite was shot down by an UFO?I definitely believe that the UFO's are here and they are here to protect humanity against the coming events including meteorite impacts..So my feeling here is could this be a UFO shooting down this fireball as seen by it?Experts please comment..

I'll have to agree with nspire. Joe I think you are influenced by the recent meteorite hit in Russia. Chemicals can very easily be set on fire. Where I used to work the chemistry labs caught fire after a heating mechanism was left on and unattended. So to me , I could be wrong of course, this seems to be what it is. An accidental fire on a fertilizer plant. Nothing more.

Well, how does one explain the fire beforehand?

Maybe meteorites can do more than we previously anticipated?

Well I have no idea what it can be. Just by reading the heading of the article, I thought "God, meteorites are now responsible for everything?".

Always, "Was it a meteorite? Could it have been a meteorite?". Someone can suddenly fall dead on the street and I frankly wouldn't be surprised to read a headline, "Was a meteorite responsible?"

But after seeing the video with the so-called object from the top left side, who knows!! It COULD have been a meteorite but nspire's explanation seems to ACCOUNT for the fire beforehand. Not to say it couldn't be a meteorite though.

OR maybe the PTB knew a meteorite was inbound and set to strike that spot, set the fire to the thing beforehand so when the meteorite hit, they could sow confusion to keep the threat from above obscured?

WAIT! I got a better one!!!

Maybe that PLANT was built in that EXACT spot for this very purpose? NO!!!!

Please, folks

Rock hurling through space = meteoroid
Meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere = meteor
Meteor that survives and hits the ground = meteorite

Last frame at 8 seconds

Just before "white out" there is a separate brighter explosion shown on the Left Hand Side of the frame. This is almost certainly due to gasses downwind being ignited. It does look like a FAW explosion. No missile or meteor. This is just an accident.

Maybe unknown tech?

Let's put the missile and meteor ideas together.
That missile sound was quicker and sharper than the one in the JDAM video.
So, we have hypersonic missiles, but how fast have we managed to get them to go, that we know of?
If you force something like a missile go fast enough, you'll get ablation on the nose cone, a lot like space shuttle re-entry, or a meteor. Then you don't see a black speck, but a very quickly moving, glowing fireball at the head of a black speck. It probably wouldn't have a large tail like a meteor does either, because the nose cone would be designed to absorb most of the energy, and would have to prevent the entire body from being engulfed in flame/plasma. It could have a heat shield material that would not flare up too brightly as it was burnt away by friction with the air, to make it harder to detect, in case ultra high speeds weren't enough for ya.

So, this could be an unknown weapon. Those videos definitely seems to show *something*, and logic doesn't allow for two meteors to strike the exact same location twice more than a few seconds apart without some sort of intervention and guidance. And I absolutely doubt they predicted an exact meteor trajectory and set fire to the plant ahead of time in order to cover it up.

That's my best theory for now, a new weapon with massive thrust capability, high end conventional explosive payload, and space shuttle style heat dissipation. It's not like that's too far-fetched for the secret American military budget. Compare that to the Manhattan Project, it's not even as large of a leap.

A little more

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Ocham's razor: something impacted the plant.

There is a crater in West, Texas

There is a sizable blast crater at the West Texas Fertilizer site. In the lead photo, the crater is on the left side adjacent to the deformity in the railroad tracks. Other online ground level photos show a 40-50' diameter crater about 6' deep and dispelled dirt mounded 10 - 12' high on the southern edge. Pre explosion aerial photos show a railcar on the siding adjacent to the western building north of the NH3 tanks, and another one to the north adjacent to a large grain elevator. There is no trace of the southern railcar in the post blast photos, and the northern car is off the siding on it's side.

I surmise the blast occurred in the building described above immediately adjacent to the southern railcar. The force of the blast propelled the car into the elevated rail bed, compressing the rails and displacing the ties, launching the disintegrated remnants on an arc into the apartment complex to the west.

At the risk

of sounding completely whacked (throwing self-importance out the window at this point), my recent dot-connecting research and intuition are telling me that the significance of the Boston bombing lies more in a testing of the waters to see how compliant the local (and perhaps the wider) population would be in the face of being subjected to what amounts to a martial-law context.

Of course, if it was a litmus test, then it appears the test met with some favorable results thus far (local population very compliant and celebratory of their militant heroes and the wider populace to my knowledge has not shown any kind of public protest).

Secondly, if the above holds any water, not only does it show just how sick the pathocrats truly are, but this false-flag litmus test may have been designed as a prep operation for a bigger false flag operation soon to be launched.

After reviewing all the footage supplied within this article, as well as the really good links in comments above from Mark07 and Amerikagulag (thank you for those, folks), I am really going out on a limb by hypothesizing that what really touched off that explosion was some kind of MIC black ops "breakaway civilization" type of technology, e.g., a "directed energy" weapon of some sort.

In the Cassiopaean Experiment transcripts, the Cs (see links below) have referred, in more than one session, to not only a "5D city on a hill" (5D as in the "recycling" zone post-3D death), quite possibly a city in the U.S., but also to an April "drop-dead" date.

Putting both together, along with the extreme world economic crisis (the entire system is insolvent, and now mass perception is rapidly catching up to this reality...therefore, mass confidence in the economic system is waning, and time is rapidly running out for those not having made preparations to meet potential life-sustaining resource shortages) and the world's nations clamoring for precious metals, especially Gold (Gold took a manipulated hit also this week...just coincidence?); and we get a situation where another huge 9/11 type of false flag is on the immediate horizon.

My bet is on either a directed energy weapon (West, TX fertilizer plant another test as a clue of what they have up their sleeves?) or a nuke being used to take out a major city in a geographically elevated area, and then use that a basis to point the finger at one of the countries not yet playing the Central Bank game (like North Korea or Iran).

We've all seen the antagonism projected on the world stage at both of those countries, and wouldn't the West (especially the Zionist faction) love to get their hands on not only Iranian oil, but also on Iranian gold?

If the same were tried with North Korea, mass insanity and massive military war (not just economic) would surely break out, since China, being as gold-hungry as it is, perhaps even Russia, would not stand for us moving in on one of their potential extra gold reserve resources (N Korea).

The banksters are sucking everything dry while still trying to hold up the system long enough for the Western based forces to sack Iran to get at its gold, but time is running out, since so many in the world are rapidly waking up to the reality of what is really going on (massive amounts of energy sucking by way of stealing, scheming, torturing, killing, etc...the fake war on terror is so good for that, isn't it?)

Cs Sessions (April "Drop Dead" Date References):

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Also, Dr Paul Craig Roberts has some interesting information about gold, etc in his latest posting titled "Update to the Update - The Attack on Gold" - see [Link]also gave an interesting interview on Friday in Episode 434 of the Keiser Report
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Additionally, here is a Cass Forum thread to the April Drop-Dead Date topic:

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~ RJC

More info on explosion itself?

Not that I think this is what occurred or will be reported - but it reported that Texas was on North Korea's map for United States targets. Of course, where there was a fire prior to something potentially hitting it (however you choose currently to explain the anomaly as captured in the videos linked above) it would be unlikely this be the case. With that said, for those who are more versed with the potential of the downwind fumes reignited and caused the large explosion - how probable is this? When first viewing the video, to me, it appeared as if it was a projectile due sound (somewhat), and the immediacy and speed it had.

From my understanding there is usually various storage containers/bins in such buildings. In many events I have witnessed where the existing flames/subsequent explosions occur they are usually a small group of explosions as the larger quantity explodes as not all is present in the initial explosion. Where as a missile or some such projectile is capable of causing a single blast that will ensure everything immediately surrounding it is taken in and part of that event. Just some thoughts and questions from someone who doesn't know much with regards to fertilizer and these types of events.

There were also reports and YouTube videos of FEMA having a presence in area(s) of Texas, showing up a day or so before the blast. This would be aligned with other such events where the Military has likely had some involvement, finding "trainings" present the day of, etc.

Thoughts on the manner that plant exploded? Again, Sound + Speed + Single Devastating explosion?

I definitely don't think it was UFO or a Meteorite. Best explanation to me right now, looking at it objectively, would be that fire was started to cover the testing of some militarized weapon under the false notion that it was the fertilizer/chemicals that were at the heart of the explosion.

/Chris.

based on recent events

hey oneopenmind...Lots of people have seen an UFO after the meteorite blast in Russia..there are also videos posted which shows in infrared an UFO passing very close to the meteorite and then it disintegrating..

Even though an "interesting"

debate - the hypothesis lacks validity. Really, a missile or meteor caused the explosion? With millions of Americans watching? So much intellect, so little common sense.

Accident

No missle.
No metor.

Fire, fertilizer, gas = explosion.

Orange Smoke - Do you see it?

You'ld think that Texans would remember. Will Lane knew what it meant back in 1947, but then he was a chemist working at the Monsanto Plant. Orange smoke is reeeally pretty.... and then BOOM!! All those watching too close, die.

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Thanks

thanks for sharin joe, indeed food for thought, looks like the US is becoming some kind of experiment project

UPDATE (@ myself, theodocius)

A BIG HEADS UP:

As a revisionary statement contradicting previous advice posted, after listening to yesterday's SOTT Talk Radio broadcast and researching further, BITCOIN may not be the way to go...

Just the opposite, IT MAY ACTUALLY BE AN ELABORATE SET-UP, under the cover of a grass-roots movement, designed and rolled out to lead us all into further enslavement...a digital currency potentially allowing for greater tracking and control of the masses...as always, do your research thoroughly before deciding...

SOTT / QFG / Cass Forum / Laura, thank you so very much for all you're doing to present objectivity...

~Love & Respect to All~ Richard J Collings

Yes ~ Twice Hit

Joe, hat's off to you ~ you're on it ~

(As much as I wanted to believe your initial hypothesis as the most accurate one in explaining this cataclysmic event in West, TX, I latched onto and proposed a similarly "outside the box" hypothesis given in my earlier postings above, namely that high-tech directed energy weapons could have been used in an attack...feel very silly now, but live and learn)...

As many of us know by now, Laura, Ark, and other participating Cassiopaean Forum members, conducted the latest Cass Experiment session on 5/28/13.

For those who have not yet seen this session's transcripts but are interested in the Cs' Hit List and their high success rate, please see the following excerpt offered for contemplation on how an apparently incredible theory and/or explanation can offer a great degree of accuracy in matching and describing a seemingly impossible event; and, unfortunately, these "preposterous" events are becoming increasingly prevalent with the incoming approach of the Wave:

"Session 28 May 2013" [Link]
Q: (Anart) You remarked that the people believing in the lies are getting increasingly fractured, which would then tie into the increasing cataclysmic events, so it's all being driven by the lies. (L) I'm not sure that the PTB are aware that that's what they're doing: bringing that on. I think they just want to fracture people because... (Perceval) From a 4d STS kind of thing, they'd want as many humans as possible believing lies so they can destroy them. (L) Well, from a 4d point of view sure, but that's not something we can argue because it's not provable. We can argue from history because one of the Roman emperors was alleged to have said to his prefects ruling the various provinces around the empire, he said, "Squeeze them until nobody has a cent left." I mean this sort of attitude has been prevalent down through history. What questions did we ask about the fertilizer plant last time, and what were the answers? (Perceval) That happened since the last session we did. (Kniall) Boston Bombings happened the same week, but after... (L) So we didn't even ask anything about the fertilizer explosion. So, ask! (Perceval) What caused the Waco fertilizer plant explosion?

A: Information overload in the form of a small comet fragment with a massive electrical charge.

Q: (Perceval) There was a fire burning before the explosion. What caused that fire?

A: First fragment.

{Think of the fires in Scotland.}

Q: (L) I think they were being a little bit facetious about explosions being "information overloads", like a play on words?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Okay, next question: When an F5 tornado can form in a matter of minutes, what is the connection with what is going on in 4D? How does it happen? What's the mechanism?

A: Once again you must think in terms of information and electrical charge. The charge on earth is building in several ways and a tornado is an electrical phenomenon similar to ball lightning.

Q: (L) So what they're saying is what we were saying awhile ago. (Belibaste) More conductivity, more discharges. (L) And more people believing lies, and more chaos. The people on the planet are attracting their own destruction. (Perceval) Because they believe lies."

We may then ask, what is one of the most important derivations from this session in relation to not only the West, TX, explosion and other similarly inexplicable catastrophes, but also more generally in relation to how consciousness interacts with environment? Perhaps just this: amassed false knowledge (lies) attracts to itself, in a self-referential loop, its own termination (destruction).

Maybe we can now more clearly see just how literally correct the Cs are in asserting, "Knowledge Protects, Ignorance Endangers!" insofar as consciousness units (in this case a body of humans) that collectively believe predominantly in that which is "orthogonal to truth" (lies), translates into, on a physical level, the build-up of an electromagnetically attractive charge that pulls in outer phenomena, even cosmic bodies like cometary fragments, toward itself.

Consequently, an extrapolated correlation then exists: the greater the mass of belief in a body of lies, the greater the electromagnetically attractive charge, and therefore the greater the attractive force to pull in external bodies and other cataclysm producing phenomena (e.g., tornadoes, lightning strikes, etc).

Although it goes without saying we recognize and are grieved by the level of tragedy involved with this West, TX, incident in terms of human casualties and suffering, perhaps we can now similarly recognize and honor, to some extent at least, how consciousness and Cosmos can and do interact; and, in so doing, recognize and honor the singularly high level of service provided by SOTT / QFG / Cassiopaean Forum members, et. al...

~ Thank You All ~ Thanks Again, Joe ~

Hi,

I think believing in Lies generates a Negative charge which can pull in the positively charged bodies in space? My assumption lies in that bodies (comets/meteorites) in space are generating a positive charge through their travels, and believing and discovering truth would generate a positive charge which could act naturally as a sort of "buffer" repelling these like charged bodies in a large enough group of humans?

Yep

IncenDiary, that's what I was thinking too - makes sense.