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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Air Force remains silent after huge meteor hits near US military base

2018-08-04

[FoxNews with video & text]
A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.

Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.

Meteor explodes with 2.1 kilotons force 43 km above missile early warning radar at Thule Air Base. https://t.co/qGvhRDXyfK
HT @Casillic

We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch. pic.twitter.com/q01oJfRUp4
— Hans Kristensen (@nukestrat) August 1, 2018

Video and text at the FoxNews link (title). The AirForce recently tweeted about this base:

#DYK: Air Force Space Command operates the northern-most U.S. military installation at Thule Air Base Greenland. #NowYouKnow #FunFactFriday #SpaceFact pic.twitter.com/9BUBqHfQoH
— AF Space Command (@AFSpace) July 13, 2018

Posted by:Skidmark

#2 Not their job.

Localized cosmic event notification should be pushed, not pulls. It IS their job.

Nobody was watching.

Posted by: Skidmark 2018-08-04 13:43

#1 Not their job. Check with NASA or the Harvard Observatory, clearing houses for comets, asteroids, and meteors.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-04 06:58

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