SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is actively preparing to send humans and cargo to Mars by 2024, a “full decade before NASA projects can complete that task.” Musk is confident he can send the first unmanned cargo load to the red planet by 2018. This is consistent with his goal of making travel to Mars an absolute real possibility for individuals here on Earth who are interested and excited about the potential of setting up a human colony on Mars.
In preparation to reach his lofty aspirations, Musk’s unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was all set to take supplies to the International Space Station on September 1, 2016. It was also going to collect data to use for future Mars missions.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 was sitting in the dock that day at Cape Canaveral undergoing a routine filling operation. The engines were off and there was no apparent heat source. Suddenly, the spaceship exploded. Fire broke out and, of course, the launch was canceled. Elon Musk tweeted that the Falcon 9 rocket explosion was “turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years.”
A video was released shortly after the explosion. UFO aficionados pointed out a strange object in the sky that is seen just seconds before the explosion. When asked if he thought something hit the rocket just before it exploded, as shown in some YouTube videos, Musk replied, “We have not ruled that out.”
Is this evidence of a greater force trying to prevent the masses from having access to space travel? Did the explosion have something to do with the $200 million satellite on board owned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg?
Three months before the explosion Musk met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. The meeting was confidential, held behind closed doors at the Pentagon. TIME reported that Carter is interested in innovations stemming from the tech community. However, Space X Falcon 9’s impending launch may have been on their agenda for discussion, as well, but all we know of the meeting is a joke tweeted by Musk saying “something about a flying metal suit…”
The SpaceX Falcon 9: History and Recent Explosion
In September 2012, the SpaceX Falcon 9 made its first successful trip to the International Space Station. Since then, it has made multiple trips back and forth, taking cargo to the station on behalf of NASA. The goal is to eventually transport volunteer civilians to Mars to set up a permanent colony. The project seemed to be on track until the explosion on September 1, 2016.
The entire explosion was caught on video. If you watch the video, you’ll notice an unidentified flying object (UFO) in the upper right-hand area of the sky. It travels to the explosion site and then disappears. When viewed in slow-motion, the object is even more pronounced.
Initially, some claimed it was just birds by many online commentators. That theory was quickly debunked; if you look closely at the video, there is no flock and birds can’t fly at the speed at which the object was seen moving across the sky. Instead, there is clearly a cylindrical shaped object that is cloaked in a reflective material and traveling at high speed.
The explosion also destroyed $200 million “revolutionary” Amos-6 satellite owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg’s goal was to use the satellite to provide free internet service to more than 14 African nations.
He expressed his “deep disappointment” over the loss of the satellite.
Were UFOs and Extraterrestrials Involved in the Explosion?
Some witnesses and UFO observers believe the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 was sabotaged by a UFO on a mission to prevent plans for further space travel and the colonization of Mars.
One witness, wanting to remain anonymous, claimed to be a welder at NASA. He witnessed an oblong object in the sky about 20 minutes before the explosion. Because he is not allowed to have his phone at work, he was unable to get any photos or videos of the object.
He described the object as having three white lights in the center of it. It was visible for approximately 20 seconds, then it disappeared.
Elon Musk himself added fuel to the fire when he also reported via Twitter that even though all engines were turned off during the fueling process, there was a “quieter bang sound a few seconds before” the explosion. He believes it came “from a rocket or something else.”
At the end of September 2016, no answers had been found. It was speculated that there could be no more launches until at least 2017. Meanwhile, many questioned whether or not this would set back Musk’s 2024 goal of sending people to Mars.
Update: What Happened?
The investigation into this explosion is ongoing. Musk is considering all evidence. He has not given up the idea that there could have been some type of sabotage. According to his spokesperson and the president of SpaceX, Musk is not ruling anything out, but he is focusing on defects in the helium fueling process.
As of October 28, 2016, the cause of the explosion had still not definitively been identified. The focus is still on the failure of the helium tanks. But, SpaceX admits, it still has not discovered the root cause of the explosion and fire.
More Time and Information Needed
Interference by a UFO cannot be ruled out. Meetings between Musk and the Department of Defense remain secret. Still, Musk forges onward, committed to transporting colonists to Mars by 2024.
Clearly, we need more information. There is simply not enough public information for anyone to make definitive conclusions about what happened on the Cape Canaveral launch pad on September 1, 2016. Learn more about The New NASA Connection to private sector space exploration.
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The Reporter Who May Have Learned the Truth Behind JFK's Assassination
Few historical events have sparked as many conspiracy theories as the JFK assassination, but when one looks at the evidence regarding the Kennedys’ history with the country’s organized crime families, it’s hard not to see the mob’s culpability. At least that’s what best-selling author, researcher, and former criminal defense attorney Mark Shaw has detailed over the course of several books, including his most recent titled, “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much.”
The reporter Shaw is referring to is Dorothy Kilgallen, arguably the most famous female journalist of her era, known for a syndicated column in the New York Journal-American, a nationally broadcast CBS radio show listened to by millions, and her role as star panelist of the celebrity game show “What’s My Line?”
Kilgallen met an untimely death in 1965 while investigating a strong suspicion that members of the New Orleans mafia may have been behind JFK’s assassination. Fanning the flames of conspiracy further, Kilgallen’s reported cause of death — acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication — was uncannily similar to that of Marilyn Monroe, whose alleged suicide has been questioned interminably.
According to Shaw’s research, Kilgallen was one of few people who connected Jack Ruby — the Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald — to Carlos Marcello, the “Godfather” of the New Orleans mafia. Knowing the Kennedy family’s complicated ties to various mob syndicates, Oswald’s history of living in New Orleans, and Ruby’s affiliations with the mob, Kilgallen followed her instinct. She also happened to be the sole reporter to interview Ruby at his trial, out of hundreds who were present.
In 1965, Kilgallen embarked on an investigative trip to Louisiana to test her hypothesis, bringing only a hairstylist along with her. However, she quickly told him to return to New York and not mention to anyone she was down there. Shaw says he believes she uncovered some damning evidence implicating Marcello’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination, which she quickly realized could cost her her life. Kilgallen returned to New York and planned a return trip to New Orleans to meet a confidential informant, but was found dead just weeks before she was supposed to leave. She described her plans to meet the informant on her second trip as “cloak and daggerish.”
The idea that the mafia was behind Kennedy’s assassination isn’t a new one. It was well known that the family’s patriarch, Joe P. Kennedy Sr. had a convoluted history with a number of well-known figures in organized crime. Kennedy Sr.’s business dealings in Chicago led to his acquaintance with famous mob boss Frank Costello, who claimed the two were involved in bootlegging operations during prohibition. Though Kennedy Sr. denied this connection, he continued to build his vast fortune through exclusive distribution rights for world-renowned brands of scotch and other imported liquors when prohibition ended.
