What They Are Hiding from Us: Why NASA Classified Observations of the Asteroid 0 24

Shortly after a mysterious fireball appeared over Moscow, NASA removed data about the asteroid 2025 US6 from open databases. The Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which reported this, does not rule out a connection between the two events.

According to specialists' estimates, this two-meter asteroid was supposed to approach Earth, passing just 150,000 kilometers away — less than half the distance to the Moon.

Currently, information about the body is unavailable in both the main catalog of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and on the 'mirrors' of the European Space Agency (ESA). The reasons for closing the information in the catalog, as well as how widespread this practice is, are currently unclear, noted specialists from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

It is also possible that under the index 2025 US6 in NASA's catalog could be a Chinese spacecraft DRO-B, whose launch into a lunar orbit in 2024 ended in failure, after which the satellite found itself on an uncertain trajectory. In March of this year, this spacecraft was transferred to a retrograde orbit around Earth, meaning it was directed from east to west, which coincides with the direction of the fireball observed yesterday in the Moscow region.

If the artificial nature of the body is established, it is possible that it refers to this spacecraft. In this case, the satellite could have been intentionally deorbited.