When a person is asked to believe something, that something that is to be believed is judged by the voracity of the person or organization telling it to you. When a thinking person is told that a certain event has taken place in a certain manner, he or she will look to the source of this statement. If this source has a history of misinformation, or is undependable, then that person will probably decide to take the facts that were given him or her, with the proverbial grain of salt. What I mean by this is that he or she will listen to what is being told them and then decide whether to believe it, wait for more proof, or reject the premise outright. Such is the case of the U.S. declaring that it has knocked a satellite down with a missile and the reasons that were given for such a move. While everything we were told about the satellites destruction may be true, it also may not and this case certainly screams out for further investigation. There have been too many times in the past where we have been told things by the government that just weren't true or colored to suit certain governmental policies and this could be one of those times.

Let's look at what we have been told as of the writing of this article on 21 February, 2008. Supposedly there was an aging US spy satellite that was in a disintegrating orbit that had a fuel tank full of a dangerous substance. Our government put out a statement that rather than let this hazardous material crash to Earth, it has decided to shoot the satellite down. A navy cruiser targeted it with a missile known as a SM-3 and supposedly blew it out of orbit with that missile. That is said to be the same type of missile that is being used to protect us from incoming missiles. It is stated to be an anti-missile missile. The satellite that it was said to have shot down was traveling around the Earth at about 17,000 miles per hour, making this one heck of a shot. Further info from the government stated that the tiny fuel tank was what was targeted by the missile and that is what was hit. I can't help but want to shout out, enough already. Why not just state that you aimed it at a porthole and sent the missile right through it. Obviously this was a message that was meant for someone other than us. The message was saying, "hey we can outdo anything you can do, we are able to pick a fly out of the air at 130 miles up that is traveling at an incredible amount of speed and we can even use a ship bound missile that can be taken anywhere to do it." Yes this was a message folks, there is certainly no mistaking that.

So who was this message aimed at? I think that this was so obvious that it was like trying to kill an ant with a sledge hammer. This message was a blunt warning to China, of course. So why would we want to do this to impress China? Well for anyone that has forgotten, China shot down one of their satellites. They said that it was aging and shot it down to prevent it from falling to Earth. What they were really saying was, "Hey US, you have all these spy satellites flying over China and we can shoot them down anytime we please, rethink what you are doing." So you see, shooting down satellites is like using a type of language. It is of course a very expensive and risky type of language, but a language, never the less. What we don't know is what has transpired between the US and China in diplomatic circles. There may have been a lot of dialog that passed back and forth before this ever even happened. That dialog more than likely, warned China not to destroy their satellite by shooting it down and warned that if they did, we would then do the same and would do it using a much more mobile and sophisticated weapon.

One has to remember that every part of this story has to be suspect. We have to look at it as if it may not be entirely true. About the only parts we can be sure of is that we did shoot down a satellite and there was an American cruiser that launched a missile. We can't even be sure what type of missile it was, but we are told that it was a new anti-missile missile. I would like to present the following scenario to you. We almost certainly have a secret aircraft called the Aurora. It is almost an open secret. There is even a model company that claims to have a model of it for sale. Almost everyone agrees that this plane is capable of reaching space and achieving at least low orbit. Another thing about the plane is that it is said to have advanced stealth technology, which means that it might not even show up on radar. Guess what position our satellite was in when it was shot down? It was in low earth orbit! So you might ask, while this is all well and good, what does it have to do with the shooting down of the satellite by a missile? I have to answer this question with another question. Do you think if we had such a craft that there is a chance that we might have positioned it near the satellite and used that to actually blow up the satellite under the cover of a missile that just might not have been accurate enough to do this? Remember all the misses that this missile had while being tested and how they had to switch from actual live tests to computer simulated tests, to make sure it appeared more accurate than it actually was. By the way I am talking about the anti-missile program in general not a particular missile.

It seems to me that since we have never admitted the existence of the Aurora, we certainly couldn't admit now that we used it to shoot down a satellite, therefore we needed a cover story and this could have been just the thing. Another thing that is really annoying is that when the Chinese shot down their satellite, we were up in arms. We screamed about the dangers of all the debris and how the space lanes around the earth were going to have thousands of pieces of space junk added to them. Now that we have done the same thing, you nary hear anything about this. All of a sudden, since we did it, it has become a non problem. Now wait a second, if one country shoots down a satellite and we deem it to be a huge problem, how can us doing just about the same not be an event with just as big a consequence?

Here is another thought that I had, it is only a supposition. Could it be that the Chinese got wind that we had planned to shoot down this satellite a couple of years ago and that is why they decided to beat us to the punch? I base this on the fact that the Chinese were able to get many of our missile secrets among other things from their spies. Remember the Chinese scientist that was accused of filtering information to China for years? He was not the only suspected spy. .My question is this, if a satellite is deemed to be so dangerous, why is it sent up into orbit in the first place. Another thing might also be true. If we knew that this satellite was dangerous when we launched it, could we have included a bomb on board, just in case things eventually went wrong? This doesn't seem so far fetched to me, does it seem that way to you?

This business about shooting things down out of orbit is getting out of hand. It is saber rattling of the worst kind. It is like having bigger and bigger nuclear blasts. It can only end in some disaster. Let's hope that all sides come to their senses.