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Blinding flash over kyiv was probably meteor, says Ukraine space agency
Apr 20 2023
A mysterious flash which lit up skies over Ukraine's capital on Wednesday night generated much speculation.
Officials in kyiv initially suspected it was a Nasa satellite falling to Earth but the US space agency told the BBC it was still in orbit.
Ukrainian space officials said later the flash had probably come from a meteor entering the atmosphere.
The air force was confident it was not a Russian air attack - an event all too familiar since the invasion last year.
The bright glow was observed in the sky over the capital around 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
An air raid alert was activated but "air defence was not in operation", the head of kyiv's military administration, Serhiy Popko, said on Telegram.
Mr Popko suggested it was caused by a Nasa space satellite falling to Earth, referring to a retired 300kg (660lb) spacecraft that the space agency announced was set to re-enter the atmosphere on Wednesday.
The RHESSI satellite, used to observe solar flares, was launched into low Earth orbit in 2002 and decommissioned in 2018, Nasa said.
But Rob Margetta from Nasa's office of communications told the BBC that the satellite was still in orbit at the time the flash was observed, and was due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere during the night.
Satellite-tracking website Satflare indicated that RHESSI was nowhere near Ukraine at the time.
Ukrainian social media has been awash with theories and memes about what the flash could have been, with a popular theme being that it was caused by aliens.
But air force spokesman Yuri Ihnat told Ukrainian TV that the flash had also been seen over neighbouring Belarus to the north and Ukraine's space agency said it was probably related to a cosmic body entering the dense layers of the atmosphere.
kyiv officials said it was up to experts to establish what it was but what was most important was the city's security.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65331823
NIH records show feds funded research in China to create coronavirus 'mutants'
Apr 20 2023
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Wednesday announced it had received records from the Department of Health and Human Services showing that the National Institutes of Health granting funding for experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that sought to create mutant coronavirus variants.
Included in the documents were the initial grant application from EcoHealth Alliance and its annual reports. Those documents described work with the WIV as seeking to "predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people."
Included in the "specific aims" section is a discussion of "[t]esting predictions of CoV inter-species transmission."
The group received a $3.3 million grant for its "Understanding the Risk of Coronavirus Emergence" project, which ran from October 2013 through September of 2018. In 2014, EcoHealth received almost $3.1 over five years from the NIH for "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence."
Records also show that the NIH later granted additional funds to the WIV in July 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton indicated that the documents supported the idea that U.S. funding for coronavirus research may have directly contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"A review of these and other documents strongly suggest that U.S. funding in China and elsewhere for mutant virus, gain-of-function research may have been responsible for the emergence of the COVID pandemic in Wuhan," he said. "This gain-of-function scandal should be the subject of criminal investigations."
https://truthsocial.com/@JudicialWatch/posts/110232838154832319
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/nih-records-show-feds-funded-research-china-create-coronavirus-mutants
https://www.judicialwatch.org/coronavirus-mutants/
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Thanks for explaining that, John