(meteorobs) Any updates on this story USAF Fireball Reports

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Was it you, Mike- or maybe Ed-- that was involved on a thread similar 
to this awhile aback.... or is this a new effort?

maybe this is a call for a hydra-headed multi- tentacled approach - 
with a new meteorbs member sending new requests each week for the next 
month or so....
(sometimes i have devilishly pragmatic thoughts....)

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey at gmail.com>
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 10:45 am
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Any updates on this story USAF Fireball Reports

Elton,

Thanks for the reply. I had sent a few letters and calls into patrick
air force base last summer, but never got a call / reply back. A few
weeks ago I contacted PAO of Space Command. I got a reply from them
yesterday morning. Not sure if they subscribe to meteor obs or if the
echelon read my email to the list and fwd'd it to them.

They didn't have much to say:

>Mr Hankey - Per the request of NASA and the scientific community, Air
>Force Space Command (AFSPC) is currently assessing its ability to
>release meteor data.   Collection of meteor data is not a primary
>mission for AFSPC, so there has never been a formal process to release
>said data.  We are reviewing how this could be done.

>Thank you for your interest.

I will also try to follow up with the meteoroid office in huntsville.
Thanks for the tip on that.

I know this is probably a futile endeavour but I don't see these guys
moving the ball forward on this issue if folks aren't asking about it
and of course it never hurts to try.

Thanks,

Mike

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:47 AM, MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The " former" agency that handled this was Office of Public Affairs 
USAF Special Technology Agency(?) at Patrick AFB but that is dead ended 
for the time being. These former sources can be googled under the group 
that monitors the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty or Google: USAF Fireball 
report.
>
> I spent a few wasted weeks last spring getting misinformed when all 
they had to tell me was that the reports were no longer unclassified.  
Dr. Brown of Western Ontario used to be the person the USAF fireball 
reports were released through.  None of them are in the business and 
none will return phone calls.  Brown's office/Agency stopped returning 
calls to me once my chastisement of the Tagish Lake Recovery 
--whatchamacallit became public.
>
> I recommend starting with the Public Affairs Office of Space Command 
and NASA's Meteoroid Office in Huntsville.  Don't be surprised if no 
one but the Public Affairs officers return calls as they are the only 
ones legally obliged to do so and they are not the ones in the know.
>  I didn't see the original Rego statement.
> Elton
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