[FPSPACE] latest on Iranian launch: US officials state "Event Didn't Happen"

[Jim Oberg]

'Kommersant' in Moscow reports that Russian defense officials
told them that Russian missile monitoring sensors also did not
detect any launch.

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Subject: [FPSPACE] latest on Iranian launch: US officials state "Event 
Didn't Happen"


> >From Agency France Presse:
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> "We have no indication that that's true," a US defense official told AFP,
> speaking on condition of anonymity. "Nothing we've come up with would
> indicate that's happened."
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> The official said it was highly unlikely that such a space shot would have
> gone undetected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which
> monitors missile launches worldwide.
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> "Even our training launches are recorded," the official said. "There was
> nothing on this one."
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> "The intelligence assessments points to that the event didn't happen," the
> official said.
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