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US Air Force silent after 2-kiloton meteor hits Earth near USAF base!!
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A meteor hit Earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force in July, but the Air Force has made no mention of the event.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size traveling at 15.1 miles per second (54,360 miles per hour) struck the ground in Greenland, just 27 miles north of Thule Air Base, on July 25. The base is mainly used to detect missile launches.
Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists Hans Kristensen tweeted about the impact, but the US Air Force has not reported the event.
Kristensen argues it’s concerning that there was no public warning from the government about the incident.
A fireball was detected over Greenland on July 25, 2018 by US Government sensors at an altitude of 43.3 km. The energy from the explosion is estimated to be 2.1 kilotons.
“Had it entered at a more perpendicular angle, it would have struck the earth with significantly greater force,” he writes on Business Insider.
Kristensen points to the example of the Chelyabinsk meteor, a 65-foot-wide space rock that exploded in the air over Russia without warning on Feb. 15, 2013.
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