David

Irish Air Corps C295 MSA (#285) taking a look at sanctioned shadow fleet tanker PAZ, IMO: 9233765.

BREAKING: Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Christopher Yeaw has revealed new seismic data that hinted the Chinese had conducted a nuclear test and taken steps to hide it from the outside world.

This is the event:
0918 Zulu/Kazakhstan PS23/around 2.7 magnitude

OK. Just a little thread about what the #seismic data says. The KNDC event is defined only by two stations: MAKZ and MK31 near Makanchi in Kazakhstan. This image shows data from the same station (IU.MAKZ) in the same frequency band for the time of interest compared with Lop Nor EQ 2022-02-27 (1/n)

Been a while since I was contrail spotting....
Here's a nice spiraling one over China, snapped in Sentinel 2 on 03 Feb 2026 ~42.437N 89.679E.

Interestingly, after KV Bergen lurked around, it appears the Norwegian vessels have now broken away from the Russian ones.

Yup, squawking 7700 - general emergency, so some kind of issue.

JAKE27 a Constant Phoenix aircraft, turned around over Norway and might be heading home.

In amongst them now

I finally added the other two newer Greenland scans to my site

Kangerlussuaq / Sondrestrom, March 24, 1966: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

Pituffik Space Base / Thule Air Base, March 21, 1969: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

YouTube video by Free Peoples - Topic Long Ago

🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SF3...

Random factoid, some of the antennas for the UK's Cold War era, MOULD Home Defence Radio system, were made in.... Dublin.
www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/Page25...

(www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/index.... is a priceless resource for information on the UK's Cold War communication systems/networks)

I wonder if anything from this seismic event would show up in SAR interferometry? 🤔

I always found it very funny that the Irish Minister for Defence at the time (1988), said comms between the UK & Ireland, in order to -*checks notes*- exchange information on nuclear blasts and fallout, "have no military significance".
www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...

I wonder if this event is the alleged China nuclear test: 22 June 2020/0 depth/41.27, 90.75/~150 km from the test site, just outside error ellipse. The P/S amplitude ratio might show if it was an explosion--need a real seismologist for that. kndc.kz/index.php/en...

Not certain about this - but is KV Bergin feeding the AIS data it receives over the air, into online AIS services? Notably all of these fishing vessels are showing up with full details on Marine Traffic, despite being 200NM offshore.

‘A bunch of freeloaders’: Increasing UK pressure on Ireland to invest in defence Russian aggression has raised the possibility of Ireland becoming strategically important to London

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

YouTube video by Surviving The Apocalypse Ireland’s Cold War

Great video giving an overview of Civil Defence planning in Ireland during the Cold War
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDXD...

YouTube video by Yo La Tengo - Topic From a Motel 6

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GE5...

Yep, certainly seems to be on the way to check in with this group of fishing vessels.

Worth noting that KV Bergen was also in the area same time last year, so its presence isn't totally new, but still interesting to see that they keep an eye.

False flagged DEYNA (false Tonga), turned AIS back on, after being dark for 22 days.

three fragmenst of varying size and a flask with small pea-sized fragments

fragments of varying size

single 8.5 grams fully fusion crusted specimen, showing some 'regmaglypths' (the thumbprint-like depressions) from ablation in a turbulent environment

13 years ago #today, a small (~18 meter diameter) asteroid impacted over #Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded at 22 km altitude, shattering windows and damaging some buildings. Thousands of small (and a few larger) fragments like these rained down. It was the largest impact of the last 100 years.

Stargazer currently on its return journey to Arkhangelsk via the Irish Sea.

YouTube video by DroneHawk MV Alta Ghost Ship - 7 year Anniversay

Nice drone footage of MV Alta. It drifted, abandoned, across the Atlantic before hitting the Irish coast. It was hopefully(?) something of a wakeup call for maritime surveillance here, as the vessel was observed in Sentinel 1 & other SAR systems before reaching land.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFHc...

James II says he's going to Tallinn 🙃

Purely guessing: it may have been anything - some debris on the water, small vessel that isn't legally obliged to have an AIS transponder etc. But the possibilities are endless!

Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace

The El Paso TFR was just as bad a mess as I feared, maybe worse.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Irish C295 MSA (#285) orbiting on the edge of territorial waters. Nothing obvious on AIS in the area.

This is what CBP used to shoot down the terrifying party balloon over El Paso (LOCUST cUAS laser) and aside from the specific dumbassery why in the absolute fuck is the Pentagon loaning these to DHS

That is a *very* good suggestion, thank you!

I was thinking the song it reminded me of, sat somewhere in the grand uncertainty zone between the Boomtown Rats and PJ Harvey....

(I have lost my mind and am now thinking it involved a saxophone - the quest continues...)