US Space Command and NASA May Have Just Low Key Dropped That They're Here: Interstellar Origin Impact In 2014
Well, this is quite the drop. US Space Command has tweeted a scan of a letter signed by a Lieutenant General, confirming that an object of “interstellar origin” crashed into Earth — or burned up in our atmosphere — back in 2014, three years before the interstellar flyby of high speed object Oumuamua.
Both objects have intrigued astrophysicists, as interstellar objects reaching the inner solar system are believed to be extraordinarily rare events.
US Space Command appears to confirm in the letter the object as “originating from an unbound hyperbolic orbit,” and further, that their internal scientists “confirmed that the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajectory.”
Given the vast vastness of interstellar space — the closest other systems literally light years from ours — it’s quite the royal flush for something interstellar to make the beeline not only for our Sun, but for our moderate sized planet in particular, rather than finding itself victim to the gravity of much larger planets in the outer region of our system, including Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Once an object finds its way into the inner region of our system, the Sun is the strongest gravitational object, by far. Yet this high speed object found its way right to Earth, then into our atmosphere? Extraordinary, indeed.
Screenshot of a tweet from the verified account of the US Space Command, discussing the 2014 event.
Although what comes next is highly speculative, here’s what some believe: the 2014 impact may have been a probe of some kind, and three years later interstellar object Oumuamua’s laser focus on Earth — it flew relatively close, before using our Sun as a gravity assist slingshot to accelerate for the next leg of its journey back out of our solar system — perhaps a survey ship with greater capability, taking data regarding our system before moving right along at extraordinary speed. The way in which Oumuamua’s velocity changed was, some say, indicative of controlled propulsion of some kind — rather than in line with observations of any “passive” meteor ever recorded.
Oumuamua’s trajectory was so bizarre that it made alien believers out of some former skeptics at NASA, Harvard, and elsewhere. The interstellar object is a subject of our FULCRUM 2021 research book and Kindle download, Winner Take All. Oumuamua changed the world the instant it ripped through our remote solar system; the masses just haven’t realized it yet.
The fresh focus on this earlier 2014 interstellar object may paint a more complete picture for the observer trying to make sense of increased federal government focus on space, both militarily and in encouraging rapid private sector advancement (such as a cell phone network for the lunar surface within just the next few years getting deployed, which implies large scale construction, exploration, or other activities may begin there sooner than most realize).
—FULCRUM Research