Originally published by Gatestone Institute
Commentary
On Jan. 28, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, which livestreams images from the Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, caught images of a shower of green laser beams lasting just seconds.
The beams were not, as originally thought, from a NASA satellite. They could have come from only one source: China’s Daqi-1/AEMS satellite.
Why was China lasering a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii?
“It’s a Chinese satellite that is measuring pollutants, among other things,” said Roy Gal of the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy to The Hill.
“I’m not sure, and this is my opinion, why the Chinese—who are probably some of the most prolific polluters on the planet—would be collecting data on pollutants on this side of the Pacific,” Ray L’Heureux, a former chief of staff of Marine Forces Pacific told the same publication….