Showing posts with label fireballs and meteors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireballs and meteors. Show all posts

11 June 2009

Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified 11JUN09

Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified
By Leonard David
SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist
posted: 10 June 2009

For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere – but no longer.

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned. ... (more)

http://www.space.com/news/090610-military-fireballs.html