Australian Spiral event : Preliminary analysis

On the morning of 4 June 2010, at approximately 5:50am Eastern Standard Time, many Australians living on the east coast were witness to an incredible display of lights in the pre-dawn sky. Such a display had never been witnessed before in Australian skies and was immediately compared by many to a similar display that had occurred almost exactly 6 months earlier and witnessed by many thousands of Norwegians. This Norwegian display quickly achieved world wide notoriety to become known as the famous (or infamous) Norway Spiral event. Now it seems that Australia can lay legitimate claim to a similar ‘spiral event’ of it’s own.

In the Norway Spiral event, I created a number of threads

Norway Spiral : Case reopened – the anatomy of an event
Norway Spiral : Case reopened – the analysis of an event (Part 2)
Norway Spiral : Case Closed

that I believe made an extremely strong case in linking the sky phenomena to that of a Russian military missile test of the Bulava series that had been launched just minutes prior to the spiral event being observed.
With the Australian Spiral event, I hope to in this thread to demonstrate that a similar strong link also exists between the launch of an American experimental Falcon 9 series rocket and the observation of this spiral phenomena approximately 1 hour post launch.

To establish the required link between the Falcon 9 rocket and the observed spiral event, we need to initially determine whether the rockets trajectory would even result in it crossing the Australian continent at any point within its orbit and if so, whether that trajectory passed within close proximity to the observed event.

We can start with the following statement:

and attempt to construct a potential orbital path and observe any Australian interaction.

Using the supplied 34.5 degree launch angle data, we can extrapolate the following trajectory that the Falcon would be expected to have followed.

So far so good. But does the trajectory cross the Australian continent, and if so, how closely does it interact with the various witness locations along the east coast ? Lets rotate the globe and observe the trajectory.

As can be readily seen, the Falcon 9 trajectory does indeed pass through the center of the witness locations … with approximately the same number of locations (yellow dots) north of the trajectory as well as south of the trajectory.

Also, in an earlier post, Chadwickus supplied some initial orbital parameter values:

i = 34.50°
Hp = 236.6 km
Ha = 273.3 km
P = 89.47 min

showing that at this point, the Falcon 9 had not yet achieved a perfectly circular orbit (based on Hp (height at perihelion) and Ha (height at aphelion) and that the initial orbital period was approximately 89 mins.

Now, the launch took place at 2:45pm EDT (US) which equates to 4:45am EDT (Aus). The east coast sightings took place approximately at 5:50am EDT (Aus) which is 65 mins after launch. This again indicates that the observers were seeing the Falcon 9 initiating an ‘event’. The difference of 24 mins (89mins – 65 mins) would be the remaining time required for the completion of the remainder of the orbit from the east coast back to Cape Canaveral.

Having a potential trajectory crossing the east coast just where the majority of observations took place is good but to add strength to the hypothesis that the Falcon 9 and the event are indeed related, we need to be able to use eyewitness photos and/or videos and determine whether the directions that the observer took the image coincided with the trajectory. In other words, if the photo/video that was taken was in a completely different direction from that of the trajectory, then it would mean that the event was unrelated to the Falcon 9 and that the hypothesis was false.

Now with the Norway event, we had many pieces of imagery that contained very clear details of the event. This imagery was of value because it also contained many points of clear reference such as mountains, buildings, etc that could be readily located on Google Earth and helped to identify the observers geographical location with respect to the event. Using such information, it then proved to be a straightforward exercise to triangulate and plot the Russian missiles trajectory. It was such detail that conclusively linked the Norway event and the Russian missile launch together.
However, with the Australian event, even though we have a reasonable amount of photographic and/or video imagery, it has proven to be of very little assistance in helping to place the observers location geographically in relation to the event. The primary reason for this is due to the fact that the event occurred just over the east coast and the majority of images show no identifiable background details because the observers were essentially imaging the event over the Pacific ocean and consequently, no background details of note were captured in the images.

However, having said the above, I did manage through very careful scrutiny of the available imagery, to locate 2 videos and a set of photos that provided a minimum amount of information to allow me to determine the observers corresponding geographical location in Google Earth. This imagery came from Mt Coot-tha in Queensland; Burleigh Heights in Queensland and Coolangatta in Queensland.

We will now examine this imagery and ascertain whether the direction of capture was in the general direction of the Falcon 9′s trajectory, and therefore strengthening the hypothesis that the Falcon 9 was responsible for the event.

The 1st imagery is a frame taken from a video that was shot near Coolangatta in Queensland. In my opinion it’s a very close match and is in agreement with the audio comments made on the video by the observer when describing his location.

The 2nd imagery is a set of still photos taken from the general vicinity of Mt Coot-tha in Queensland. After much examination of the original photo and comparing it to the same area in Google Earth, it would appear that the closest location match for the set of still photos would be if they had been taken from the very popular tourist scenic lookout point atop Mt Coot-tha that provides a clear and unobstructed 360 degree panorama.

Before we look at the 3rd piece of video imagery, it’s possible to link the Mt Coot-tha and Coolangatta observers and conclusively state that at the moment of their respective image captures, that they MUST have been looking in EXACTLY the same direction at EXACTLY the same moment of time. Look at the overall shape of the event in the following image and you can see that essentially they are identical.

Finally, we have the 3rd imagery which is a video recording made at Burleigh Heights in Queensland. Admitedly, this proved the hardest when attempting to locate the observers geographical position in Google Earth. Thankfully, however, careful examination of one of the frames from the video provides sufficient data points to succesfully determine the observers location.

From comments associated with the Youtube video, it was clearly established that the video had been shot along the Esplanade that runs parallel to the beach/ocean, so this thankfully restricted the area that I had to search and made it much easier to locate the observers location at the time.

Even though the video was very dark, I was still able to extract a key frame that gave me a number of reference points to use in my search.
Off primary importance were the unique double-lamp streetlight (A) and sets of outdoor trestle tables (C). Examining the entire Esplanade showed that that particular style of street light only occurred 3 times along the entire Esplanade and that the trestle table arrangement occurred only once on the Esplanade. Coupled with the other matching points (B), (D), (E) and (F) gave high confidence that this was the observers location when the video was shot.

Ok, so we have 3 observer locations that we have been able to place reasonably accurately and have been able to deduce the direction in which they were facing when taking the photos/videos. We now have to plot those locations and directions on to the east coast and see if we have an intersection with the Falcon 9′s trajectory path as it crossed the east coast and headed in an easterly direction across the Pacific ocean.
As can be seen below, we do indeed have such a correspondence that even though not absolutely conclusive, does lend additional strength to and helps corroborate the initial hypothesis that the Falcon 9 was somehow directly responsible for the observed spiral event of that morning.

CONCLUSION

From the above, we can see that there is more than sufficient evidence to make a good case supporting the hypothesis that the Australian spiral event was triggered by the United States Falcon 9 rocket test as it passed over the east Australian coastline and out over the Pacific ocean.

In comparing the Australian spiral event to that of the earlier Norway spiral event, it’s immediately obvious that the two phenomena, though separated by 6 months, were very similar in many details to be labeled and subsequently dismissed as mere coincidence. Up to the time of the Norway event, such a distinctive and unusual atmospheric event had never been previously observed and yet only a few months later, we see essentially the same event occurring once again.

In the Norway event, much effort was made by the media and authorities to dismiss this as nothing more than a fault or a fuel leak in the Russian missile that resulted in such a bizarre display. However, I showed in my Norway threads that such a simplistic explanation was not only extremely unlikely, but was almost impossible to explain from a physical point of view.

So if the Russian explanation fell far short of the truth, what possible explanation can be offered by the Americans to explain how the Falcon 9 could produce such a display ? We’re told after all, that the entire test was a 100% success and that there were NO difficulties whatsoever and that the rocket performed beyond expectations.
We also can’t fall back on the ‘old excuse’ that the rocket was venting fuel or performing a stage separation maneuver because firstly, the second stage engine had used up it’s fuel and had shut down long before crossing the east coast and secondly, the payload remained attached at all times to the shutdown 2nd stage engine and never separated.

Therefore the only alternative explanation is that the event was a purposely timed and executed procedure … but for purposes unknown. The conclusion is that regardless of the ‘stated’ fact that the Falcon 9 was carrying nothing more than a dummy payload, the actual truth may be that there was indeed an actual and ‘live’ payload package being lifted into low Earth orbit for testing purposes. If the Russians can keep Bulava payloads a secret, then so can the Americans with the Falcon 9 payload.

However, it is MY opinion that in both the Norway event and the Australian event, that both the Russians and Americans have developed and are in the process of testing some highly advanced and obviously secret technology that apparently can only be deployed and operated in low Earth orbit.

Whether this technology is military based and either offensive or defensive in nature, or whether
some form of new propulsion system … only time will tell.

Note: As of this latest ‘spiral event’ most likely associated with the US space program … all 3 major launch capable nations (Russia, China and the US) have now had reported spiral events … makes you wonder, doesn’t it ?

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