ICAN Australia / Peter Cronau (Declassified Australia) investigation published June 2024, confirmed by Professor Richard Tanter (Nautilus Institute). Pine Gap has undergone its LARGEST AND MOST RAPID EXPANSION EVER between 2020 and 2024. SCOPE: 10 new satellite antennas/dishes constructed. Three large dishes added to western section. Four smaller dishes in northern section. Three new dishes in southern section. All built inside new radomes (ball-shaped fibreglass-composite structures). Total satellite radomes/dishes now at record HIGH of 45 — up from 38. ZERO TRANSPARENCY: 14 hectares of land cleared and construction completed. No announcement to the Australian population. No permission sought from parliament. No development application to the regional council. “The lack of transparency surrounding this work is unacceptable” — Dr. Alison Broinowski, Australians for War Powers Reform. PRIMARY PURPOSE OF NEW DISHES: Hunt and target Chinese nuclear missile silos. Linked remotely to Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado. The new OPIR (Overhead Persistent InfraRed) satellite dishes are designed to detect thermal signatures of ballistic missiles in all phases of flight — launch, mid-course, terminal. “Greater Australian involvement with US nuclear war fighting planning and operations” — Prof. Richard Tanter. UAP CROSS-REFERENCE: THE OPIR THERMAL IMAGING CAPABILITY that can detect missile launches from China would ALSO detect UAP heat signatures across the entire Asia-Pacific region. Pine Gap’s SIGINT satellites already cover Korea, China, Russia, and the Pacific — the exact geography of the South Korea giant craft site (37°N 127°E) identified in our dossier. Coulthart confirmed Australia has equal intelligence interest in the South Korea site. Pine Gap is the Australian node. Source: icanw.org.au/pine-gaps-secret-expansion