Air Force silent after huge meteor hits earth near US military base

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A HUGE meteor has struck earth near a US military base, but America’s Air Force has stayed silent on the fireball event.

A METEOR hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month... NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometers per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometers north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.

Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.

Mr Kristensen argues it’s concerning there was no public warning from the US government about the incident.

“Had it entered at a more perpendicular angle, it would have struck the earth with significantly greater force,” he writes on Business Insider.

Mr Kristensen points to the example of the Chelyabinsk meteor, a 20-metre space rock that exploded in the air over Russia without warning on the 15th of February 2013.

It was the size of a house, brighter than the sun and visible up to 100 kilometres away.

About 1500 people were injured by glass from windows smashing or other effects of the meteor’s impact as it crashed to earth, the biggest known human toll from a space rock.

A local shop was damaged by a shockwave from a meteor in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013. Picture: AFP