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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:29 PM
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Pravda is reporting the Peruvian "meteor" may have been a KH-13 spy satellite
The tone is a little over the top, and the byline, Sorcha Faal, may not be a trustworthy source, but it's certainly good for shivers and grins. The symptoms reported in the earlier BBC story are certainly consistent with the early signs of radiation poisoning, but the Peruvian nuclear agency is reporting "no sign of radiation."

American spy satellite downed in Peru as US nuclear attack on Iran thwarted

Russian Military Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that one of the United States most secretive spy satellites, the KH-13, targeting Iran was 'destroyed in its orbit' with its main power generator powered by the radioactive isotope Pu-238 surviving re-entry and crashing in a remote region of the South American Nation of Peru, and where hundreds are reported to be ill from radiation poisoning.

Western media reports are stating that the US spy satellite debris hitting Peru was caused by a meteor, but which, according to these reports, would be 'impossible' as the size of 30-meter crater, if caused by a meteorite, would have hit the ground with about as much energy as 1 kiloton tactical nuclear weapon, and which would have been recorded by the seismic stations around the World.

Most astonishing about these reports, however, are that they state that it was the Americans themselves who destroyed their own spy satellite with the attack upon it being made by the United States Air Forces' 30th Space Wing located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This incident further fuels the intrigue involving the United States War Leaders plans to attack Iran in their attempt to engulf the entire Middle East in Total War, but, against which, according to Russian Military Intelligence Analysts, a 'high ranking and significant' faction of the American Military Establishment is opposed to.

This can be further evidenced by this past few weeks unprecedented announcement by the United States Air Force that 6 nuclear armed cruise missiles were removed, without authorization, from their secure holding facility, located in North Dakota at the Minot Air Force Base, and flown to Barksdale Air Force Base, located in Louisiana, where they were left 'unattended' for 'nearly 10 hours'.
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A-Long-Little-Doggie Donating Member (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:35 PM
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1. Yikes! Is the US military working to keep Cheney from attacking Iran?
This story gets more interesting by the day.
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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:52 PM
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2. If that thing was the power unit of a Keyhole, that's the only explanation.
If it was a satellite a shoot-down would just leave a cloud of orbiting debris, and wouldn't de-orbit large pieces. This was a large, dense, solid chunk of something, and a nuclear power unit would certainly qualify.

If it was a satellite, a commanded de-orbit is the only possibility for such a re-entry. A KH-13 probably carries enough fuel to make such a maneuver possible (they are built to be quickly re-positioned in space, so they would need to carry a lot of fuel).

It's vanishingly unlikely that a foreign power could penetrate the US space force command and control system deeply enough to be able to program a de-orbit burn.

So if it was a satellite, a deliberate de-orbit by friendly forces seems the most reasonable explanation.

Or it wasn't a satellite.

Let the reading of the entrails begin!
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