Looks like a massive meteor hit the earth last month, exploding with around 2.1 kilotons of force according to a tweet NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but the US Air Force has yet to confirm or deny the fact. The size of the object was unknown, but records indicate the meteor was traveling at around 24.4 kilometers per second which is about 54,000 MPH when it struck the ground in Greenland just a few miles away from Thule Air Base, an early warning missile base located there on July 25, 2018. Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information project for the Federation of American Scientists, tweeted about the impact in response to an original message sent by Twitter user “Rocket Ron,” you can see both tweets below.

Meteor explodes with 2.1 kilotons force 43 km above missile early warning radar at Thule Air Base. https://t.co/qGvhRDXyfK

HT @Casillic We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch. pic.twitter.com/q01oJfRUp4 — Hans Kristensen (@nukestrat) August 1, 2018

Sourcing: Hans Kristensen Twitter account