Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was convinced a "sniper" had caused a Falcon 9 rocket to explode violently on the launch pad on September 1, 2016. Footage of the event shows the rocket erupting into a gigantic ball of fire in an instant, reducing the mounted Amos-6 Israeli communications satellite into ashes. A Freedom of Inofrmation Act (FOIA) request filed with the Federal Aviation Administration by Ars Technica's Eric Berger around two years ago, has now revealed that SpaceX engineers had thoroughly inv