A putative interstellar bolide motivated the progressively sensationalized claim of a debris field, with media frenzy magnifying a mock-heroic recovery of materials claimed to be disintegrated and melted fragments of alien technology with isotopic ratios interpreted as indicating an age older than the heliospheric system - possibly the most far-fetched misinterpretation of space weather and palimpsest lightning-related evidence in the planetary science and impact geologic corpus. Microfulgurites, which are in all respects identical to the claimed debris recovered in the putative debris field of CNEOS 2014-01-08 are expected from superbolt modification of suspended organics and mineral grains in ocean water, and redeposition of coastal muds affected by lightning strikes upon benthic fans
For example, here are images of visually, metrically, and chemically identical materials, all recovered from known locations of lightning strikes and accompanied by macroscopic slag-like Type II-V fulgurites:
Microfulgirites colllectdf by Thaddeus Gutierrez in Ypsilanti, imaged and published by Jon Larsen
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016ja022462
Proton/electron enhancements had been superposed at third day of an SPE, initially as a rare GLE event affected Earth Janary 6, 2014 as the proton event began to ramp.
USAF radar and photon detection source error is necessarily greater than 50% - although exact values relative to "blue sky" standard systematic error is classified, with bolide radar incapable of detection of velocity and trajectory simultaneously well below the assumed velocity of supposed interstellar/hyperbolic bolide. The non-detection became a minimal parameter for motion, which was identical to the range LISM-LIST bulk flow (23-28 km/s and ~32 km/s) relative to the ~2 km/s solar equatorial bulk rotation motion, so this motion is an artifact of magnetic field interactions with inertial field lines, a rate he claims exceeded 40 km/s (which is the typical plasma propagation speed along the magnetopause boundary), to a maximum v of approximately 60 km/s, which reflects apparent motion of the arrival of a coronal transverse shock component with parameters affected by the nonstationary 2km/s shear on LISM-LIST potential drag.
Such errors are very common with bolide parameter determination, which stack systematics:
Converging Earth-directed CME shocks and blackout from X-ray flux directly after the first X-class flare event of the year, while a GLE was active, peaking in a solar particle event extending around the putative CNEOS 2014-01-08 event window ToA directly at perihelion: sustained radio blackout in the range that all bollde detection networks operate. Avi Loeb initially claimed that USAF provided adequate error statistics to support the modeled impact parameters of the putative 2014 New Guinea event, but quietly contradicted this only months later, after having eschewed military radar data that he had previously claimed to have possessed, granted to him by DoD sources, in a preprint uploaded to Arxiv, for optical methods, and then eventually seismic data. Loeb never admitted his deception in overstating and misrepresenting his data sources and their reliability. Seismic data had not been resolved to have been the product of anthropogenic or CME impact atmospheric density wave coupling, or the result of [potentially correlated] superbolt discharge, as this particular sky region is known for.
Thunderstorm activity was clearly detected over the region, and seismic data utilized to triangulate the impact range of the putative object, from a Manus Island seismometer, was subjected to disinterested analysis, which revealed that the data were identical to that produced by a passing cargo truck, especiallt given the acousticap background instability
due to thunderstorm activity.
A Type II radio emission on January 6, 2014 associated with the initiation of the CME that preceded the GLE had a velocity of 1953-1960 km/s.
On January 7, an X1.2 flare and its halo CME (among many halo CMEs over the preceding week) had a measured radial velocity among the fastest recorded, 2400-2500 km/s. This alone. Radio blackout was considerable, and nightside ionization and dipolarization front activity alone render US military sources regarding the reliability of spy satellite data that "confirmed the interstellar trajectory purely disinformation intended to enhance narratives of US reconnaissance superiority.
GOES X-ray flux for the GLE-SPE-fast CME period around the CNEOS 2014-01-08 signal:
BARREL observations of a solar energetic electron and solarenergetic proton event Halford et al. 2016
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