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hello it's Wednesday May 17 2017 you are

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listening to inception Radio Network

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voice of the fringe majority this is

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Carol Carl if UFO headline news find the

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Omega Centauri star cluster tonight yes

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you can tonight or any night in fact in

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the coming weeks

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let the sparkling blue white star

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speaker and the very bright planet

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Jupiter act as your guide to the Omega

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Centauri globular star cluster you can

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see this cluster with the unaided eye if

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your sky is dark enough Omega Centauri

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looks like a fairly faint and possibly

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fuzzy star the team at earth sky dot-org

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considered a beautiful and very special

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star cluster and in any year the star

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speaka can help you find it this year

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Jupiter is also a guide for this to find

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Omega Centauri first find speaka it'll

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be the brightest star in the

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constellation Virgo the maiden oh how do

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you find it well we're going to be

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posting a chart later provided by earth

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sky dot org a handy dandy consultation

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method it'll show you how to do just

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that speak at transits climbs to its

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highest point in the sky about 10 p.m.

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local Standard Time about 11 p.m. if

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you're using daylight saving time in

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mid-may all locations around the globe

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we can find speakers precise transit

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time for our own skies using the United

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States Naval Observatory chart they'll

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also be a link to that as seen from the

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northern hemisphere speaker and omega

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centauri transit due south at the same

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time which means that when speaka is

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highest in the south omega centauri is

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to look for omega centauri about 35

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degrees directly below speaker a fist at

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arm's length approximates 10 degrees so

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that's a guide Omega Centauri is special

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in part because you can see it with your

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eye alone that is assuming you've got

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that dark enough sky very few of the

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Milky Way galaxies 250 or so globular

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are visible without optics ah what are

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globular clusters you say well here's

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the answer to that large symmetrically

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shaped groupings of stars fairly evenly

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distributed around the core of our Milky

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Way galaxy Omega Centauri is the largest

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globular and finest globular star

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clusters visible to the eye alone all of

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you gentle listeners living south of 35

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degrees north latitude have a realistic

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chance of spotting Omega Centauri though

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it's been seen as far north as Point

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pele Canada that's 42 degrees north

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latitude best appreciated with a

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telescope Omega Centauri is the largest

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and brightest of all globular star

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clusters bottom line use the star Spica

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in the constellation Virgo to locate

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Omega Centauri in springtime well that's

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downright poetic here's an update from

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geek wire byline for Alan Boyle here's

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the headline SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

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sends Inmarsat telecom satellite to

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high-flying orbit we should toss in we

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almost missed this story apparently it

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was so high flying it was well here it

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is anyway

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Monday

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launched the Inmarsat 5f4

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telecommunication satellite to a

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geostationary transfer orbit ranging

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beyond 22,000 miles in height so high

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that there was no chance to bring that

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first stage booster back for a landing

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the rocket lifted off from launch

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complex 39a at NASA's Kennedy Space

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Center at the beginning of the launch

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window 721 p.m. Eastern Time that was

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421 p.m. Pacific over the past year

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SpaceX has made Falcon 9 booster

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landings seem almost routine but

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missions aimed at putting satellites in

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geostationary orbits typically require

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so much oomph there's not enough fuel

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for a controlled descent instead the

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first stage tumbled back down to crash

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harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean

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SpaceX didn't even bother to install

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landing legs on the rocket meanwhile the

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Falcon

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second stage continued skyward to power

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Inmarsat 6.7 ton bus sized spacecraft

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into a successful low-earth parking

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orbit a later engine burn successfully

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put that in Mars app 5f4 into its proper

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orbit for spacecraft separation the

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Boeing built satellite is the fourth of

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its breed beefing up Inmarsat global

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Express that's uppercase X press

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broadband data network servicing

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customers on land at sea and in the air

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the three earlier satellites in the 1.6

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billion dollar constellation were

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launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in

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Kazakhstan by Russian Rockets when the

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third satellite was launched in 2015 in

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Mars at CEO Rupert Pierce said his

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company was switching to SpaceX because

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of the quote unacceptably high failure

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rate end quotes of Russia's proton

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rockets incidentally Inmarsat started

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out as an international maritime

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satellite service provider but the

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london-based company has branched out

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into fields ranging from in-flight Wi-Fi

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to connected cars coming back down to

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earth let's have her over meta Han Nova

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Scotia Canada we had to look that up it

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spelled Emmy t EG h a n the case number

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is 8 3 6 3 7 move on wise the event date

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is the 10th of May this year it wasn't

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reported till the next day here's the

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summary two objects same shape

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no visible emission on a cloudless

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evening disappeared reappeared in

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different place in the category of

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sighting specifics eyewitness provides a

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viewing distance of 501 feet to one mile

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the altitude was over 500 feet no cloud

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cover the sighting duration here was 15

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minutes but no object features are

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reported the flight path stationary and

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other and the object was shaped like

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something that is reported but not that

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frequently shaped like a dumbbell how

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about a little look at Nova Scotia

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meteorology at the time of this

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currents the maximum temperature was 46

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degrees Fahrenheit seven degrees Celsius

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minimum temperature 39 degrees

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Fahrenheit 4 degrees Celsius

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there isn't any listing for any of the

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visibility factors but the conditions

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indicate nothing abnormal about the

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weather here's the account first person

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I was driving towards Yarmouth from

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Church Point yesterday evening when I

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spotted one dumbbells cigar-shaped

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object hovering in the southern sky

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at first I thought it could be a plane

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the Sun was setting it would make sense

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that it could reflect that strongly but

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then I noticed there was no emission

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zero coming from the craft I called my

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husband and told him what I was seeing

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when a second object appeared out of

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nowhere as I turned a corner on the

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highway they disappeared from view I was

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bummed and then five minutes later they

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reappeared in the same general direction

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a few minutes later one disappeared then

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both and then three minutes after that

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another appeared this time towards the

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western sky it floated slowly across the

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horizon and then disappeared the object

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was significantly larger than a standard

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jetliner the ones I normally see in Nova

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Scotia skies Nova Scotia is one of the

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busiest flight paths from international

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Canada destinations now the outline of

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this object was fuzzy and the objects

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themselves were glaringly bright the

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shape of the object was cigar shaped but

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with indents in it from each respective

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edge similar to a dumbbell I felt

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excited when I saw these objects excited

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enough to call my husband and tell him

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what I was seeing and then I said out

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loud hey I see you I wonder where you're

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from I lost sight of these objects

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eventually I took my eyes off of them as

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I continued my drive to town very cool

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that inspiration our witness had to

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actually attempt a conversation to say

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hey I see you hmm

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now as they say to grease the wheels of

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the machinery to come here's a way back

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Wednesday siding well not the feature

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story it's a UFO stalker sighting from

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1971 it took place on the 1st of June

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but it wasn't reported by anybody until

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the 4th of May this year the setting for

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this sighting is Bradenton Florida quite

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close to a recent Florida flap by the

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way the sighting specifics include a

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viewing distance of 101 to 500 feet a

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treetop altitude the sighting duration

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here was only 30 seconds understandably

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the object features are reported as none

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the flight path straight-line path path

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with directional change and other and

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this object was shaped like a sphere it

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had been hot that day the maximum

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temperature was 94 degrees Fahrenheit 34

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degrees Celsius down to a minimum

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temperature of 61 degrees Fahrenheit 16

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degrees Celsius nothing to indicate any

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visibility factor but there was nothing

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abnormal about Bradenton Florida 's

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weather here's the event Gulf Coast off

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swimming about a hundred yards from the

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shore the tree line was right on the

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beach the beach wasn't very wide clear

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sunny day the water was flat and there

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weren't that many people around I looked

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back to the shore and saw three gold

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balls in the sky over the treeline no

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real idea of their size but they weren't

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tiny at all they were shiny not glowing

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with light more like a gold Christmas

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tree ball the three balls were darting

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around back and forth up and down for

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I watched them with wonder and then as

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one they came together and formed a

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slightly bigger gold ball which then

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zoomed up at a sharp angle and was gone

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this is the first time I have told this

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officially not much but I know what I

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saw and I feel really lucky to have seen

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it what are the

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anta's just out for a swim in the Gulf

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cool ah yes the musical cue underscoring

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for way back Wednesday today we're going

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to be talking about harp H AARP and its

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possible connection to project rest

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board so buckle up and here we go the

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high frequency active auroral research

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program that's better known as harp

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it's an ionospheric research program

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jointly funded by the United States Air

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Force the United States Navy and the

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University of Alaska Fairbanks along

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with the Defense Advanced Research

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Projects Agency of what we call DARPA it

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was built by bae advanced technologies

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its purpose was to analyze the

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ionosphere and investigate the potential

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for developing ionospheric enhancement

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technology for radio communications and

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surveillance the Hart program operated a

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major sub Arctic facility named the

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HAARP research station on an Air Force

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owned site near Gakona Alaska the most

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prominent instrument at the HAARP

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station is the ionospheric research

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instrument better known as the IRI it's

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a high powered radio frequency

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transmitter facility operating in the

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high frequency band the IRI is used to

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temporarily excite a limited area of the

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ionosphere other instruments such as a

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a ditch asonde that's an ionospheric

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sounding device and an induction

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magnetometer were used to study the

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physical processes that occur in that

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excited region work on the HAARP station

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began in 93 the current working I RI was

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completed in 2007 as of 2008 HAARP had

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incurred around 250 million dollars in

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tax funded construction and operating

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costs it reportedly was shut down

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temporarily

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20:13 awaiting a change of contractors

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and then in May 2014 it was announced

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that the HARP program would be

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permanently shut down later in the year

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ownership of that facility and its

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equipment was then transferred to the

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University of Alaska Fairbanks mid

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August 2015 it's not unlikely that many

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of you gentle Isner's are well aware of

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HAARP being the target of conspiracy

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theorists they claim it's capable of

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weaponizing weather commentators and

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scientists say that advocates of this

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theory are uninformed as claims made

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fall well outside the abilities of that

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facility if not out of the scope of

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natural science one of the most popular

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names associated with this meme is Nick

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Begich jr. the son of the late United

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States representative Nick Begich and

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the brother of former United States

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Senator Mark Begich Nick is the author

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of a book entitled angels don't play

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this harp he's claimed that HAARP could

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trigger earthquakes and turn the upper

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atmosphere into a giant lens so that

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quote the sky would literally appear to

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burn end quotes he maintains a website

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that claims HAARP is also a mind-control

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device and now gentle listeners here's

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the part where we sort of suggest there

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is a connection between HAARP and those

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satellite radio communications in

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particular and something called Project

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West Ford here we go this information

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comes from a website with a very

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interesting name it's called Dan

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interesting calm at the height of the

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Cold War in the late 1950s all

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international communications were either

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sent through undersea cables or bounced

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off of the natural ionosphere the United

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States military was concerned that the

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Soviets or other hostile actors might

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cut those cables forcing the

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unpredictable ionosphere to be the only

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means of communication with overseas

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forces the Space Age had just begun and

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the communication satellites we rely on

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today existed only in the sketches of

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futurists

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nevertheless the United States military

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looked to space to help solve their

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communications weakness

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their solution create an artificial

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ionosphere in May 1963 the United States

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Air Force launched 480 million tiny

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copper needles that briefly created a

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ring encircling the entire globe they

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called it project West Ford the

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engineers behind the project hoped it

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would serve as a prototype for more

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permanent rings that would forever

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guarantee their ability to communicate

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across the globe the project itself was

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a virtually unqualified success during

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the summer of 1963 earth looked a tiny

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bit like Saturn that was the same year

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that dr. Martin Luther King jr. marched

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on Washington and the same year that

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Beatlemania was born the United States

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that year also launched a half a billion

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whisker thin copper wires into orbit in

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an attempt to install a ring around the

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earth project West Ford and it's a

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perfect if odd example of the Cold War

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paranoia the military mentality at work

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in America's early space program the Air

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Force and the Department of Defense

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envisioned the West Ford ring as the

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largest radio antenna in human history

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its goal was to protect the nation's

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long-range communications in the event

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of an attack from the increasingly

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belligerent Soviet Union during the late

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1950s long-range communications relied

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on those undersea cables or

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over-the-horizon radio these were robust

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but not invulnerable should the Soviets

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have attacked an undersea telephone or

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telegraph cable America would only have

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been able to rely on radio broadcasts to

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communicate overseas but the fidelity of

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the ionosphere that layer of the

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atmosphere that makes most long-range

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radio broadcasts possible is at the

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mercy of the Sun it's routinely

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disrupted by solar storms at this point

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the United States military

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we had identified a problem a potential

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solution was born in 1958 at the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's

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Lincoln labs a research station on

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Hanscom Air Force Base north of Boston

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project needles as it was originally

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known was Walter Amoros idea Walter

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omoro suggested that if earth possessed

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a permanent radio reflector in the form

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of an orbiting ring of copper threads

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America's long-range communications

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would be immune from solar disturbances

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and out of reach of nefarious Soviet

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plots each copper wire was about 1.8

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centimeters in length this was half of

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the wavelength of the eight gigahertz

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transmission signal beamed from Earth

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that effectively turned to each filament

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into what's known as a dipole antenna

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those antennas would boost long-range

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radio broadcasts without depending on

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that fickle ionosphere today it's hard

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to imagine a time where filling space

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with millions of tiny metal projectiles

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was considered a good idea but West Ford

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was fond back before men had set foot in

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space when generals were in charge of

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NASA's rockets and most satellites and

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spacecraft hadn't flown beyond the

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drafting table the agency operated under

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a quote big sky theory end quote

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surely space is so big the risks of

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anything crashing into that stray bit of

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space junk were minuscule compared to

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the threat of communism the project got

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renamed West Ford two words for the

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neighboring town of Westford which is

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one word in Massachusetts it wasn't the

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first or even the strangest plan to

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build a global radio reflector in 1945

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science fiction author arthur c clarke

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suggested that germany's v2 rocket

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Arsenal could be repurposed to deploy an

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array of antennas into geostationary

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orbit around the earth so prescient was

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arthur c clarke vision today's

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communication satellites residing at

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these fixed points above the planet are

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said to reside in Clarke orbit meanwhile

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Americans

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scientists had been attempting to use

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our own moon as a communications relay a

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feat that would finally be accomplished

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with 1946 'as project Diana an even more

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audacious scheme was hatched in the

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early 60s from a shiny mylar egg that

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was called Project echo it utilized a

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pair of microwave reflectors in the form

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of spaceborne

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metallic balloons as project West Ford

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progressed through development radio

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astronomers raised alarm at the ill

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effects this cloud of metal could have

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on their ability to survey the Stars

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concerns were beginning to arise about

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the problem of space junk but beneath

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these worries was an undercurrent of

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frustration that a space mission under

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the banner of national security was not

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subject to the same transparency as

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public efforts the Space Science Board

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of the National Academy of Sciences

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convened in a series of classified

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discussions to address astronomers

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worries and President Kennedy attempted

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a compromise in 1961 the White House

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ensured West Ford's needles would be

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placed in low orbit the wires would

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likely re-enter Earth's atmosphere

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within two years and no further tests

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would be conducted until the results of

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the first were fully evaluated this

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partially appeased the international

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astronomy community but still no one

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could guarantee precisely what would

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happen to 20 kilograms of copper wire

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dispersed into orbit on October 21st

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1961 NASA launched the first batch of

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West for dipoles into space a day later

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this first payload had failed to deploy

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from the spacecraft and its ultimate

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fate was never completely determined

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here's a Soviet newspaper Pravda

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headline quote USA dirties space and

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quotes Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was

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forced to make a statement before the

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United Nations declaring that the United

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States would consult more closely with

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international scientists before

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attempting another launch and there was

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another launch May 9th 1963 a second

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West Ford launched successfully

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dispersed its spindly

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Agro approximately 3,500 kilometers

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above Earth along with an orbit that

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crossed the North and South Pole voice

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transmissions were successfully relayed

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between California and Massachusetts and

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the technical aspect of the experiment

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were declared a success and then that

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paper the Harvard Crimson May 24th that

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year quoted British radio astronomer Sir

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Bernard Lovell as saying the damage lies

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not with this experiment alone but with

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the attitude of minds which makes it

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possible without international agreement

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and safeguards and quotes so ultimately

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how did project West Ford work out and

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those needles hmm well we wandered over

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to orbital debris JSC nasa.gov and found

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this West Ford needles where are they

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now fifty years ago the United States

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attempted to recreate a short-lived band

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of hundreds of millions of tiny wires

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around the earth to test passive

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communications techniques ultimately

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communications satellites quickly

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obviated the need for such concepts but

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some remnants of the two test missions

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remain today under that name project

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West Ford - Atlas Aegina launch vehicles

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one on October 21st 1961 and one on May

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9th 1963 carried special canisters of

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densely packed very thin wires to act as

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dipole reflectors for x-band

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transmissions the first mission reached

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its intended orbit of approximately

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3,500 kilometers by 30 750 kilometers

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inclination 95.9 degrees but due to

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design characteristics and unanticipated

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thermal effects the dipoles did not

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dispense individually eventually only

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seven small debris which are believed to

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be associated with the experiment were

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ever cataloged by the United States

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Space Surveillance Network all are still

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in orbit

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the second project West Ford mission was

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partially successful it released an

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estimated 120 to 215 million

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wires aka needles since 1966 the United

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States Space Surveillance Network has

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only found and catalogued 144 small

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objects associated with the second

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Project West Ward experiment there were

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two additional object called West Ford

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needles they're being assessed and will

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be catalogued a post-mission

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investigation concluded that only 25 to

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45 percent of the planned 480 million

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dipoles disbursed properly the others

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were believed to have remained in clumps

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later discovered by the SSN although

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still strongly affected by solar

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radiation pressure these clumps did not

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decay as rapidly as the individual

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needles today 46 clumps remain in Earth

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orbit only nine of those clumps are

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currently in orbit with parody's below

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2000 kilometers data collected during

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observations in the mid 1990s suggests

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that a moderate population of small

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debris still resides in orbits above

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2500 kilometers it's been suggested that

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these debris represent small clumps of

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those project West Ford needles the

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legacy of project West Ford can still be

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found in international policies

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including the first major United Nations

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Accord on activities in outer space that

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calls for international consultations

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before undertaking any experiment which

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might cause quote potentially harmful

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interference with activities of other

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state parties in the peaceful

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exploration and use of outer space so

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say we all

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we all say thanks by the way to our man

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in the high castle for providing this

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wonderful idea it was a concept this

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broadcaster was completely unfamiliar

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with so we hope it's triggered some

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concerns some thoughts some

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investigations that's the thing it's

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listen learn and remember

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oh we just remembered we've got to go

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because that's a wrap thank you for

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listening to inception radio network

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