I reckon USA surveillance apparatus finally found that Plane

[cthulu2016]

Last edited Thu Mar 20, 2014, 12:49 AM - Edit history (4)

It sounds like someone probably told Australia their satellite found debris from the plane at x coordinates. (Australia PM said they had "received information".)

And from a source Australia accepted as so reliable the PM would rush to Parliament to make an announcement before Australian planes had a chance to check the information.

Probably our version of phoning in an anonymous tip. Not really anonymous, but not necessarily wanting the credit.

If that's all the case, yet another excellent job by the current presidency in not leaking something.

On Edit Reckon I was probably wrong. At the press conference it sounds like the Aussies got commercial satellites to photograph in the area SW of Perth that the US NTSB identified, then AEIGO (Aussie sat intel) interpreted the images and found it. We'll see.

[flamingdem]

1. The "received" part wasn't mentioned

on CNN. We'll see.

[RGinNJ]

2. Project much?

[brooklynite]

4. Supposition based on absolutely nothing...

...except "we all know" US has super-secret intelligence tools and keeps things secret.

How tiring.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. You know, it could have been some body else's bird

And since they are coordinating. To use fire language, they are the incident command, so it makes sense they get it. Given that at least three other countries have eyes on the sky...

[cthulu2016]

6. Well sure. But there's little point to errant speculation if

one is going to cover all eventualities. Would reduce the errancy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yeah, but it could be a Russian bird, a French bird, I think India has a few,

Or China, not just ours. So I am just raising the chance of who's it could be.

And they are on

[HipChick]

8. Sounds like it was Australian resources mate...

US can't claim this..

[Tx4obama]

11. Yes, the USA and UK can. See link in Comment #10. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Oh and here is the list of Australian eyes

http://www.spaceacademy.net.au/flight/aus/aussat.htm

[Tx4obama]

10. USA and UK - see link below...

Article in Comment #49 here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=760233

USA and UK !!!

[Ex Lurker]

12. I expect we knew quite a bit before now

and since there was no chance of survivors, sat on the info for a few days to avoid revealing how effective our surveillance technology is.