“The primary reason for this was the remote location of the asteroid impact and the time it took for officials at various agencies and departments to confirm the event and seek direction on how to respond to it. Nobody wanted to be the one accused of issuing a false alarm, and none of the decision makers realized the dire consequences of events unfolding on the other side of the world. There were widespread sightings of the asteroid as it entered the atmosphere and streaked over the Middle East ...and South Asia and these were widely reported. However, there were only a few scattered eyewitness reports of the impact at sea. Brief messages from ships, such as the SS Sedulity and other less fortunate vessels, took time to trickle up through proper channels and longer still for anyone to act on them. The first public alarms were raised in Australia after contact was lost simultaneously with two jumbo jets over the mid-Pacific. It was initially assumed that the planes had collided, although they should have been many miles apart.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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