New Military Base In Australia Confirmed

It is supposedly for spying on the Middle East

www.abc.net.au...

Good catch.

I wonder what new satellite system its going to support.

I thought Pine Gap already covered the Middle East.

Could be for addition coverage. Also since Geraldton is in WA, it might for Africa coverage as well, to support the new Africa Command.

Hopefully some contractor jobs will open there. I love Perth/Freemantle area.

For something like this to have made the news I'd guess it'll be pretty legit what they use it for. But then again putting this out there and stating what it is for, might be their way of discouraging people from questioning what is really going on there.

Originally posted by mustbebc
For something like this to have made the news I'd guess it'll be pretty legit what they use it for. But then again putting this out there and stating what it is for, might be their way of discouraging people from questioning what is really going on there.

Is the new American 'communications center' also a secret launch site?

at www.spaceweather.com...
on the 20 feb 2007 date, There is an article about three sky watchers
in Austrailia who watched & photographed on the night of 19 February 2007,
what was determined to likely be a rocket launch...
then witnessed and tracked a 'cloud', most likely the rocket explosion, which all three astronomer buffs witnessed and photographed...
over a span of some 35 minutes,


external images :

from Chittiring, Australia -> www.spaceweather.com...

from Bull Creek Ranges in Meadows, Australia ->
www.spaceweather.com...

from New South Wales ->
www.spaceweather.com...
( ?? )


? I doubt that China or even North Korea did a launch that would be so directly 'above' Australia,
in addition to Australian skies is much farther South from either nations normal/usual orbit insertion trajectory.

Which leaves Australia itself as the Sponser of this secret/covert launch attempt...or the USA operating on Austrailian soil doing this accidently? observed attempt to launch something into orbit.






[edit on 20-2-2007 by St Udio]

This may be what they were talking about on ABC 612. They interviewed someone who said they thought there was an outer space explosion. Wish I had a link to it but I only caught it on the radio. I'll look for a text article.

Here it is, I'll see if there's a thread on it already. If not I might start one

abc.net.au...

Update:

Couldn't see a thread anywhere about it so I started one

www.abovetopsecret.com...

[edit on 20/2/07 by mustbebc]