Mystery Meteor in Peru Might be Satellite Speculate Russians

The Russian newspaper Pravda reported Thursday that one of the top secret U.S. spy satellites, the KH-13, which was being used to spy on Iran, “was destroyed in orbit,” according to Russian military analysts. “However, the satellite’s power generator, which contained the radioactive isotope Pu-238, was not destroyed, and re-entered earth crashing into a remote region of Peru, where hundreds of people are ill from the radiation,” analysts say. Pravda called western reports that the object was a meteor “impossible, given that for the size of the crater, 30 meters, to be caused by a meteor, it should have crashed with as much energy as a nuclear weapon of one kilogram, which would have registered on seismic stations around the world.” However, Peruvian scientists continue to insist that the object was a meteor and that the impact was registered on seismographs. They say they also detected iron in the object’s composition.

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