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- The MELBOURNE SUN (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia),
- August 25, 1954 issue, carried an article titled "THE NEW
- SATELLITES", which stated: "Two meteors (asteroids?) had become
- satellites of the earth and WERE REVOLVING WITH IT 400 to 600
- miles out in space, the latest issue of the American Magazine
- 'AVIATION WEEK' said yesterday. The magazine said that the
- discovery of the satellites threw the air force into confusion
- this summer. Alarm over the sightings ended only after they had
- been identified as natural rather than manmade."
-
- Another possibility may be that they were both 'engineered'
- natural objects such as hollowed-out asteroids taken from the
- asteroid belt. The simultaneous arrival of two large asteroids,
- combined with the fact that both took up a geo-synchronous
- (synchronized with the revolving of the earth and positioned
- always over a particular geographical location) orbit, would be
- an incredible'coincidence' indeed.