However, such a signal in theory could easily contain a representation of Earth along visible wavelengths, down to a resolution of slightly over 1.3 square meters Although research is ongoing, we are unlikely to decrypt this signal, since only a few thousand of more than 65,000 component signals happened to get recorded during Firefall. However, Fourier PCA reveals a composite signal arising from the intersections of all of these emissions one with another. Radio emissions from individual fireflies are reminiscent of those arising from gas giants with strong magnetic fields, and at first pass contained no detectible intelligence. There is no need to invoke cloaking devices at this time. It has been suggested that our inability to detect the Fireflies during their approach may have been the result of advanced stealth technology while we cannot rule this out, it is also true that even 65,000 objects, converging equidistantly from all directions, would be spread very thinly across the heavens until the final seconds of their approach. The destruction of the communications satellites is believed to have been the result of inadvertent collisions and not of directed attack. Subsequent increased surveillance of both local and deep space has turned up nothing of consequence. To this date there have been no further incursions. The so-called 'Fireflies' were not detected upon approach: there was no indication of their presence prior to the simultaneous destruction of three communications satellites in geostationary orbit several seconds prior to atmospheric impact. We have found no fragments or samples of any kind.

All objects appear to have disintegrated in the atmosphere. The objects contained high concentrations of iron, judging by subsequent mesospheric elevations of that element. Mean mass per object is thought to be on the order of 2-5 kg, based upon opportunistic visual/radar profiles and observed rates of atmospheric braking prior to burn-up. Objects emitted strong omnidirectional radio signals with primary emission peaks at 35m and 394m. Objects converged in a precise latitudinal/longitudinal grid all burned up within 45 - 72 seconds of contact with upper atmosphere.

The 'Firefall' Event: Executive Summary Time/Date:Ħ5,536 objects of unknown (presumably extraterrestrial) origin simultaneously hit atmosphere on, 1034:43.

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