High altitude object shot down over Alaska

What the

It was just Sarah Palin's ego.

Cold War 2.0.

That’s odd. There aren’t many objects that can travel at that height. I hope we didn’t shoot down ET.

Again???

Why are these objects discovered only when it's already a threat and flying over the US? Why do we learn about this after the fact? Why aren't these objects kept away from the.skies?

Who are you asking, R7?

Canada must have some very weak defense system. These useless idiots allow everything to cross over onto US air space. Their poor citizens are never informed about it.

I told you so!

"Watch the skies everywhere! Keep looking. Look to the skies!"

Joe does it again

I was molested.

It’s says it was the size of a small car on the bbc

It was discovered last night.

Kirby didn't bring this up at his press conference, a reporter who apparently heard about it asked him.

It's okay, R4, he can be resurrected

Where was it headed ?

Now Republicans are going to start screeching that Biden's a warmonger.

R10- was it actually the size of a small car? That kind of sounds like MTG. I probably shouldn't get my hopes up.

It's scary how something can just randomly float into our air space like that. What if there was a nuke or a chemical weapon in it? That's some scary shit.

R20 what’s an MTG?

I can understand the Russians entering USA airspace via Alaska but why China?

Those sneaky chinamen are up to something.

We should finish them off before they try to do something to us

Everything is scary, then you die.

Just in my life, polio, race wars, Vietnam, Velveeta, AIDS..., 9/11, Trump, The Supreme Court and drag queens with confusing pronouns.

[quote]Kirby didn't bring this up at his press conference, a reporter who apparently heard about it asked him.

what are you talking about? We know about this because Kirby was announcing it at the press conference.

R22- It's a breed of feral space cow.

"A small car on the bbc" - weird!

Rosie O'Donnell has issued a statement....

r26 No he DID NOT announce it, I was watching. He spoke about the Turkey earthquake and Ukraine and then went to questions. A reporter asked about the object that was discovered and he was forced to answer.

[quote]It’s says it was the size of a small car on the bbc

Do you mean like actually sitting on the BBC? Like their headquarters? Or what we around here refer to as BBC?

Cause I’ve seen some BBC in my day, but none that could handle a car sitting on them.

Mike Pence's box of dildos ..... he was trying to get them out of the house before the FBI search

R23, the Chinese appear to have wanted to photograph sites located mostly in the northern half of the country, so having the balloon come down through Canada made more sense.

[quote]Canada must have some very weak defense system. These useless idiots allow everything to cross over onto US air space. Their poor citizens are never informed about it.

This object was never in Canadian airspace, dipshit R9.

Canadians let everything into their country and then call themselves "inclusive".

What the last poster said in a reply is apparently the case.

It was in the Deadhorse, Alaska region which is near Prudhoe Bay with the Arctic Ocean north of that area. Not Canada.

It was headed to my house, R18.

Now I’ll have to order another dildo, and dildos aren’t cheap, Bitches.

Getting more specific and accurate, with the Prudhoe Bay info I posted a moment ago, I was replying to post 34 & not the idiotic & inflammatory post #35.

We don't need to know, just handle it.

Maybe it was an invader from space?

Joe shrugs off the Chinese balloon covered American communication along 4000 miles surf to surf miles including immobile interludes over Strategic Missiles sites plus command and Control sites.

"𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺"

This being the guy who thought the helicopter evacuation of the US Embassy in Kabul abandoning tens of billion of dollars worth of gear was a triumph.

Fuck off MAGAt troll @ R41. We all know who surrendered to the Taliban:

Maga is a confused little cunting whore. When the balloon was floating around over US airspace, maga screamed Sleepy Joe was asleep at the wheel and SOMETHING NEEDED TO BE DONE ABOUT IT. RIGHT AWAY. After, "Sleepy Joe" handled it, the same people declared it was fake news and no big deal and a provocation directed against the PRC.

I hate to tell those power hungry wannabees, but I trust the President's intel and options more than the shit they THINK should happen. Trump wanted to send a fucking nuke into the eye of a hurricane and some of those goons were all for it.

MAGA going to be MAGATS that's what they do.

My guess was a fixed wing drone. Not a quad copter that you see guys playing with at the beach, more like actual mini airplane with wings. Similar to the ones we have. That's why they know it was unmanned, those things don't have windows and are too small to really sit inside.

[quote]Canada must have some very weak defense system. These useless idiots allow everything to cross over onto US air space. Their poor citizens are never informed about it.

Canada and the USA have the same joint defense system

[quote] It's time we just nuked china into oblivion.

And you’re prepared to spend $25,000 on a 12” television set? The works is dependent upon China for all their cheap goods and slave labor.

[quote] My guess was a fixed wing drone. Not a quad copter that you see guys playing with at the beach, more like actual mini airplane with wings. Similar to the ones we have. That's why they know it was unmanned, those things don't have windows and are too small to really sit inside.

And where would that have come from and for what purpose?

Fixed wing drones can fly thousands of miles. They are basically unmanned planes. Quadcopters can only stay in the air for about 30 minutes. Both are considered aircraft. I wish they would just say what it was. If they could tell it was unmanned, then they were close enough to identify what type of aircraft it was.

We don't need to know. It's handled.

[quote]We don't need to know. It's handled.

How old are you, ten? Too grown up for you.

I hope they don’t shoot down the Goodyear Blimp over the Super Bowl stadium.

Duck and cover Rihanna! Duck and cover!

r48, things didn't cost and arm and a leg in the 50s and 60s, and we made the stuff here! And keep in mind, that was back when those dreaded unions were much more powerful than today. I wonder what's different today? Could it be.... executive pay has gone through the roof?

R54- It was mostly because, post World War II, the rest of the industrial world was in ruins. The boom of economic prosperity for the American working/middle class was largely the result of the rest of the world essentially being out of commission when it came to manufacturing.

Sorry, R54- I do agree with your point. I missed a sentence acknowledging that

r55, that was part of it, but only part of it. Read the facts in r54's link. The increase in executive pay has been STAGGERING.

R57- You're right. I hit post too soon.

Why'd the DoD take it down? Sarah Palin said she could do it from her porch.

She said she could see Russia from her porch, didn't she? The way things are going, she'll be first to go.

💻 It was Hunter Biden's laptop.

You'd think the Chinese get enough juicy stuff off Grindr and Tik Tok which they own, operate and monitor under ByteDance.

Even the Chinese Communist Party has stake in social media spyware .

"They want our precious bodily fluids"!

What the hell is the real story? I guess they can always say it was Sam Smith or Lizzo or someone.

[quote] You'd think the Chinese get enough juicy stuff off Grindr and Tik Tok which they own, operate and monitor

That's when they realized that they'll get nothing of substance from these useless Grindr whores and TikTok whores who are either looking for sex, or looking to become famous.

Why not send a drunken group of people to moon the balloon? That’s the picture they will get.

LEARN FROM THE BALLOON

Margie agrees with you, R66.

Why would China do something like this?

They knew the US would respond.

So why did they do it? What message were they trying to send?

R70 Testing the country’s defences. It’s rather worrying.

R71 If it was a test, did the US fail?

They wanted to see how the US responds to things like that. Remember, they already flew two other balloons over the US when Trump was in power and he did nothing.

It was the Flying Nun in a promotional stunt for the reboot. Sally Field needs another gig since 80 for Brady was such a bomb.

Could’ve been my Amazon package, dammit.

r14 It’s says it was the size of a small car on the bbc

In my small car, I heard it was the size of a bbc.

[quote]things didn't cost and arm and a leg in the 50s and 60s, and we made the stuff here!

A new made-in-America color TV in 1965 retailed for $400.00. That's $3,716.25 in today's money.

Those Teslas really blow when they blow, don't they?

Not Baby Rodan!!!

So nice to see Donald Trump has joined us at R6.

Déjà vu!

We’ll never know the truth,

It was probably a billionaire from another galaxy who needed a hobby to make him feel important.

[quote]It’s says it was the size of a small car on the bbc

Maybe it was Danny and Sandy in their flying hotrod.

I've Got a New Altitude!

I would feel awful if it was a legit UFO cute little space alien

R6, We could call it the "Save the Tigers" campaign!

[quote] Nothing in the world could force me to go hiking in a snowy moutain. Or anywhere else for that matter. Why do people even do that ?

We are more than willing to undercut China.

So do people not ride in hot air balloons anymore to celebrate engagements and for romantic trips? Is that no longer a thing because of this? I can imagine it might be dangerous as someone might shoot it down.

And they still don't know what was shot down. Might have been another Chinese spy, or might have been a totally innocent object.

It was just a big fat lady caught in an updraft. Poor thing.

[quote]So do people not ride in hot air balloons anymore to celebrate engagements and for romantic trips?

How tacky, that died out with shoulder pads. However, there is a famous balloon festival in New Mexico every year. Quit a sight to see.

The Chinese are:

1. Sending a message. Get off our turf. ie. Taiwan

2. They're testing US air defence capabilities.

3. They're seeing what the US response is to these things. How long it takes for US to respond. What the command structure is. etc. ie the first one wasn't shot down until the east coast, this one was shot down in the western USA.

4. They're testing new technology. We don't know what technology is on those things. What are they looking at. How are the communicating back to Beijing.

It'a interesting that the authorities are being very upfront, and haven't invented a cover story. Note they have not said it was a balloon and specifically avoided saying so when questioned,

In this prophetic song, it was 99 red balloons that started a nuclear war.

Aliens are post nuclear

China was an impoverished country until American corporations moved all manufacturing overseas to prevent American workers from earning a living wage.

China would not have the funding or the technology to do this, without American investment.

Can a nuclear device be dropped from a balloon?

I'm sorry, but I'm not buying any "cover story" the US govt. is trying to feed us. After the one from a week ago, the subsequent excuse that they were afraid to shoot it down because of potential danger to people on the ground. That is a minuscule risk, considering this balloon was over plenty of uninhabited areas across the northern states. There was something more going on. Possible scenario: the US did contact CCP about the balloon and were given an ultimatum eg: "if you shoot it down, we will do x y and z." So the risk was not about the immediate effect of shooting it down, but the consequences stated by CCP. We are in high stakes times right now.

^^^^^

China Propagandist has entered the room at R99.

I just figured a hole had opened up in his tin foil hat, R100.

Another object being tracked dby NORAD over Northern Canada. Of course Canaduh

Canada just shot it down

Aliens?

Hold on. All these objects suddenly occupying our skies. What is going on?!?!

Excuse me? I lived through the Aids crisis, two economic recessions, 9/11, covid, J6 and now World War Three?

It's too much.

Stupid question. Is it actually official that these balloons were sent by the Chinese? Or is that just what everyone is supposing?

Yeah it does seem weird even if todays isn’t Chinese

Have they released footage of the close-up inspection. What's inside the balloon - cameras? Made in China cameras? Maybe this has been revealed and I have missed this part of the story.

Jina

It’s all the vork of Qveen Yllana.

I HATE that Qveen!

Maybe this is like the start of V, except the lizard aliens are coming in balloons.

I'm getting my Keytar ready!

Maybe the flying object is from Israel!

They’re coming for George Santos. They want to conduct experiments on his brain to find out how a genuinely mentally ill person can function in a high stress job.

Using their satellites to beam lights down near Hawaii

R107, the first balloon WAS Chinese, the Chinese government admitted it. The second object was much smaller than the first, which apparently is why they could shoot it down over land, but we don’t know what it was. The Chinese were really angry about the balloon being turned into a huge deal and may have sent a second one out of spite.

R105, the skies are full of surveillance satellites. At this point everything is watching us.

Has the Rapture begun? Are we under attack?

They probably shot down Doc Brown and his Delorean.

And the one over Canada was probably Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty.

For fucks sake, China has been spying on us for decades. Spy satellites can read the letters on a license plate. There are thousand in the sky just take a look at this link. And FYI they have 10 times the resolution the normal person sees using Google Earth. Chinese spy satellites can already read the numbers on a license plate.

Rapture

Do we know what this latest news was?

Apparently the two silver cylindrical objects were balloons. Boring, but that's what's being reported. Very strange that early briefings refused to call them as such.

Most defense radar use Doppler technology. Normally they tune out low Doppler gates so they don't pick up large slow moving birds or even flocks f birds. A balloon and what ever these other two objects are are slow moving and not all that large so they wouldn't show up. I suspect they have re-tuned the radar to see those lower speed targets. There are also reports of similar targets in the past. They save all the radar from the past and it is likely they reprocessed those archived files with the re-tuned Doppler gates and by golly there were the similar targets.

The first balloon was so large it was being easily seen (and filmed) by the public, from the ground. That created a humiliating media storm. Now all resources are being mobilised so it doesn't happen again.

R125 Humiliating media storm for the US or China? I've heard different accounts saying it humiliated both for various reasons.

This former fighter pilot Queen with a Porn Stash has it all figure out.

Half a million dollar missile to shoot it down and they don't even know what it was

R128 = Karen MAGA troll.

Like you really give a shit about how much a missile coast? Should we just let it spy on us? Oh white, weren't you people whining that no one was shooting it down when it was the big white balloon? Are you really that naive that you think NORAD does not know what it was? Of course they do, that does not mean they want to share everything with the public because they don't want our enemies to know how good our technology is. Something Trumpeters don't get.

What bizarro world is this in which people presume to know a total stranger's political affiliations because they say one thing they don't like? Something that isn't even political?

Unbelievably tribal.

R130 Welcome to the modern left- they make the Massachusetts Colony look tame in comparison. Thank God we're about to be put in a alien zoo or something.

[quote]Excuse me? I lived through the Aids crisis, two economic recessions, 9/11, covid, J6 and now World War Three? It's too much.

One night you’ll belch and Jerkin’ Justin will blow your head off!

[quote]and they don't even know what it was

Just because [italic]you[/italic] don’t know what it was doesn’t mean [italic]they[/italic] don’t know what it was.

They don’t inform you of everything, even though your nosy ass wants it.

This has to be China, right?

[quote]They don’t inform you of everything, even though your nosy ass wants it.

Do you talk to people like this in real life?

Nothing like unidentified flying objects to bring out the crazies on social media. First the alien invasion true believers, then the paranoid types who insist all these UFO stories are planted by govt/media to district us from some other conspiracy obsession.

Another one was shot down over Lake Huron in Michigan.

OH MY GOD!!!

Hold me, David. I’m scared.

Tic Tacs.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

Over the past week these objects have been sighted over Russia, South America, USA, Canada and China.

Dayum.

Where are our alien overlords when we need them?

MTG is going to go fucking nuts on Biden again over these objects being shot down.

Maybe they can take that Hellbeast down while they're at it.

Wait. I thought MTG wanted them shot down and was bitching they weren’t shot down fast enough.

[quote] It was the Flying Nun in a promotional stunt for the reboot. Sally Field needs another gig since 80 for Brady was such a bomb.

R74 OMG! I just realized Sister Bertrille was an early drone prototype. Carlos was sending her over Cuba with a Brownie camera to take surveillance photos!

Large Marge chimped out when the device was NOT removed from our skies, now she complains when it's handled.

One of MTG's recent tweets

[quote]@RepMTG [quote]We have not been briefed on any of the air defense actions being taken in response to unidentified flying objects. [quote]Congress should be informed and so should the American people.

One of the articles I read stated that Elissa Slotkin and other US reps and senators from Michigan were in contact with DoD. This may sound dumb of me, but I wonder if it's possible Department of Defense views MTG and other loons in Congress as possible risks and they are purposely not briefing them right away on certain issues.

It's all too vague for my taste, we should be told SOMETHING.

Don't need to know. There's plenty of bad news happening right now to chew over

R151, they may still be recovering and examining what they’ve shot down. I can also imagine no one except Fox wants to overheat the political situation.

I wonder if they're some sort of probes. I hope a war isn't about to break out, I'd like to know if I have T-minus whatever left.

It’s getting dicey.

Maybe I devious plot to attack during superbowl Sunday!

This whole situation has me increasingly on edge. I hope we get more information soon.

The whole of "North America" - you'd be pretty unlucky if one of these things fell on you.

CNN: The US military does not have new information on the country of origin or the physical or mechanical properties of the three objects downed over North America in the past three days, Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of the US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, told reporters Sunday.

“I'm not going to categorize them as balloons. We're calling them objects for a reason,” VanHerck said when asked about the physical characteristics of the objects.

“I'm not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure or it could be some type of a propulsion system. But clearly, they're -- they're able to stay aloft,” he added.

VanHerck stressed that officials do not know the country of origin of the objects downed in recent days, distinguishing it from the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that the US military shot down off the coast of South Carolina last week.

“I would be hesitant and urge you not to attribute it to any specific country. We don't know,” VanHerck said.

Exactly, r142! THAT is why the silence!

These objects aren't coming from China, for China has been overflown by one!

At least in WW3 happens I’m too old to draft

Oh, honey, you were too old to draft 50 years ago!

Are they coming from another dimension?

Its China checking if they can drop a new covid type disease from space

R161 is worried more about sitting near a draft!

Far right terrorists?

I'm more than a little curious as to their origin.

[quote] “And what a senior administration official described is that it had an octagonal shape and there were strings hanging from it, but with no discernible payload.”

"it had an octagonal shape and there were strings hanging from it"

Damn you, space tampons!

Why aren't the ufo freaks all over this?

The U.S. military shot down another high-altitude object Sunday, reports CNN — this one flying

"The operation marks the third day in a row that an unidentified object was shot down over North American airspace." Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said Sunday that the operation to down the object over Lake Huron was carried out by pilots from the U.S. Air Force and the National Guard.... The object was flying at 20,000 feet over Michigan's Upper Peninsula and was about to go over Lake Huron when it was neutralized, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday.

The object was "octagonal" with strings hanging off and no discernable payload, according to the official and another source briefed on the matter. While the U.S. has no indication that the object had surveillance capabilities, that has not been ruled out yet.

Why have so many flying objects been spotted in the last week? The Washington Post says the Chinese spy balloon and subsequently-spotted objects "have changed how analysts receive and interpret information from radars and sensors, a U.S. official said Saturday." The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that sensory equipment absorbs a lot of raw data, and filters are used so humans and machines can make sense of what is collected. But that process always runs the risk of leaving out something important, the official said.

"We basically opened the filters," the official added, much like a car buyer unchecking boxes on a website to broaden the parameters of what can be searched. That change does not yet fully answer what is going on, the official cautioned, and whether stepping back to look at more data is yielding more hits — or if these latest incursions are part of a more deliberate action by an unknown country or adversary....

The official said the current U.S. assessment is the objects are not military threats.

I can’t wait to listen to all my fav tin bay and paranormal podcasts this week

When I went online tonight, this was one of the Yahoo articles that greeted me:

Why aren't these objects flying above Tonga or New Zealand?

MyShake (an earthquake app) registers earthquakes in Tonga almost every day, and they're not teeny ones either.

If I was an alien, I'm not sure that would be my first landing choice lol

China. Russia. USA. Not Mexico. Not the Dominican Republic.Not South Africa. Greece or Australia.

These objects are everywhere, they are just being picked up on radar in places where they are (now) being specifically searched for.

Un huh.

US Air Force General Glen VanHerck said intelligence services were exploring all avenues - including the three most recent objects may be linked to extraterrestrials.

Asked whether he had ruled out 'aliens or extraterrestrials', he said: 'I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything.'

Fap fap fap

R170, They're not talking to YOU!

Octagon is a big giveaway. Probably a very hefty enterprise drone. Something like this octocopter:

Maybe they're pie plates, r182. Or weather balloons. Or trickery of Aurora Borealis.

Fake news!

Swamp gas.

China now says the U.S. has been flying balloons over their country for years too. But they never shot them down. Get ready for a tit for tat show.

Narcotic deliveries by drone at altitudes usually too high to be noticed make more sense than intercontinental espionage by balloon.

HOLD ME, DAVID!!!!

- Silver and cylindrical - "Not a ballon" - Interfered with equipment

Maybe they're trying to test a way to take out our electrical grid by using EMPs on balloons.

Could be a bunch of rich idiots playing with new toys.

[quote]Could be a bunch of rich idiots playing with new toys.

Maybe it's the Saudis hoping to start a panic that they'll inevitably profit from, somehow. They are the richest adversaries of democracy.

I'm not losing any sleep over it.

I don't believe the mystery drone fleets over Western states were ever identified. That is much more concerning to me.

Could a drone be flying that high and for that long?

We're baaaack!!

I honestly don't know enough to answer, r193. Here's more about the drones and the investigations.

Did it look like a big Tylenol?

"It's time we just nuked china into oblivion.

Get rid of them, once and for all."

It's always a good idea to spread radioactive contaminant across an entire swath of the planet because something flew over the Florida of the North.

An excellent concept

It's these two rascals.

It's wonderful how Trump rolled back the automatic brake regulation that Obama put in place to prevent such disasters. But Repubs and "leftists" blame Biden for railroad greed and Republican deregulation while they ignore facts surrounding union negotiations.

[quote]If I was an alien, I'm not sure that would be my first landing choice lol

But aliens don’t have the MyShake app. I have it on good authority that they use Galaxy phones, not iPhones.

Where's D-R? She's not posting batshit conspiracy theories yet?

She's started a thread insinuating the ohio derailment was predicted in a movie, r202.

Aliens - advanced enough to overcome the difficulties of interstellar travel yet apparently can't avoid being shot down multiple times by a comparatively primitive civilization

I may have to read that one R203. Link or what is the title?

Primitive, r204?!

I bet we dress better than those aliens do. Them and their little green jumpsuits and shit.

I hope it's aliens, I'm tired of humans and their shady bullshit.

I'm pretty sure aliens are up to shady shit too.

"No one – not the White House, the Pentagon or the government of Canada, whose airspace has also been infringed – seems able to say exactly what is going on with these latest downed crafts. This raises questions for top military brass and US spy agencies as well as for the potential safety of civilian aviation. And it creates an information vacuum that Republicans are again using to question President Joe Biden’s leadership."

Here's the thing. Our government knows a lot more than they let on. They do not have to tell us more than they want to. The GOP is well aware of this and their response to Covid was a perfect example of trying to keep the public uninformed. They need to keep their ugly yaps shut.

[quote] Our government knows a lot more than they let on.

The confused changing stories argue otherwise.

The Biden administration dangerously mishandled China’s now-famous, first recent high-flying “object” over America. Confronted Friday, again off Alaska, with a second unidentified object; Saturday with a third, over Canada; and Sunday a fourth, over landlocked Lake Huron, President Joe Biden reacted very differently, perhaps having learned his lesson.

Or maybe the last three shoot-downs merely underline his helter-skelter thinking. Not all the facts of these four incidents are yet available. The administration’s constantly changing excuses and storyline complicate understanding, let alone correcting, its mistakes.

The worst mistake came at the outset, Jan. 28, when NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) detected a balloon near the Aleutian Islands. NORAD’s commander, Gen. Glen VanHerck, said Feb. 6, “It was my assessment that this balloon did not present a physical or military threat to North America.”

Days into the controversy, the Pentagon justified not shooting the first balloon down in the waters off Alaska because of the difficulty of recovering the payload for analysis. This rationale is either knowingly false or disingenuous — and constitutes yet another posterior-covering reversal, given Gen. VanHerck’s confession that he initially saw no threat.

he Bering Sea is indeed cold and deep, but apparently not so cold and deep that the second “object” could escape being shot down Feb. 10, perhaps closer to Alaska’s shores, with recovery operations now underway.

Finally, the administration has said repeatedly it did not want to destroy the first balloon over land to avoid risks to innocent civilians. Yet it did just that over the weekend, over the Yukon and Lake Huron.

The hypocritical GOP needs to shut their fat, anus mouths.

Rep. Elissa "Peppermint Patty" Slotkin's press conference

FYI MyShake is on my Galaxy phone. I have never owned an iPhone, nor do I have plans to.

I wanted to make sure I could communicate with our Alien Overlords when they arrived.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

^ cheeky

Coincidentally this show premieres tonight. Should be a good primer on UAP

Here's what we now know about the objects, per CNN:

Off the coast of northern Alaska: It was described as a metallic object that broke into several pieces when it impacted the sea ice, according to multiple US officials. That suggests it may have had some sort of structure to it, but officials won't know for sure until the object is recovered.

Over Lake Huron: The object shot down over Lake Huron was “octagonal” in shape with strings hanging off and no discernible payload, according to a senior administration official. It was traveling at 20,000 feet when it was shot down, the Pentagon said Sunday.

Over northern Canada: The object shot down over the Yukon territory in Canada appeared to be a balloon with a metal payload hanging underneath. The object was traveling at 40,000 feet. It was described as a “cylindrical object” smaller than the Chinese surveillance balloon that was downed off the coast of South Carolina one week earlier.

Multiple officials said the objects shot down in Alaska and over Canada were believed to have had payloads, meaning that something is being carried by the object.

A DJI Inspire 2 can unofficially fly up to 16,000 feet. Usually that means they can fly even higher. The are expensive though, around 8,000 or more depending on the model or camera you buy. DJI makes the best drones you can buy. Think of them as the Apple of the drone industry. American drone makes such by comparison. 70% of the drones sold in the U.S. are made by this Chinese company. Police departments were buying these until congress passed a stupid law banning DJI form being use by government agencies. But you can buy them legally as a regular US citizen. Mostly for taking cinematic video. But also used for inspecting bridges, construction sites etc.

Legally, drones in the US are not allowed to fly over 400 feet above ground level. But if you are a drug smuggler that's probably not your concern. All drones sold in America as of last year 2022 are required to have remote ID. It's a computer chip that lets anyone track them, not just police. It's very simple to do, DJI makes a device called an Areoscope which not only tells you where the drone is in the sky, it also locates the pilot on the ground holding the remote. Many police departments have this as well. There is even a few apps out now on the iPhone that can do this.

I am not saying all the last 4 sighting were drones, but the one over Lake Huron probably was. It's too deep into Canadian territory to not have been spotted a spy balloon getting there. Flying over a lake to the US is a perfect way to move drugs unnoticed. In fact it's happened before. Usually the guys operating them lose control because they push it too far and the signal gets lost. Most US prisons and airports already have what's called Geofenicing, it's a red no fly zone that will disable a drones ability to fly overhead. Because guess what, drug delivery to a prison yard have been tried many, many times. Usually the guys buying those for drug transportation are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

[quote]I am not saying all the last 4 sighting were drones, but the one over Lake Huron probably was. It's too deep into Canadian territory to not have been spotted a spy balloon getting there.

The unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday appeared to be a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it,” according to a Pentagon memo sent to lawmakers on Monday and obtained by CNN.

It's mylar madness!

In a related note, Dollar Tree has reported 3 missing balloons.

Hey, r222 - that's Buck-Twenty-Five Tree to you, buddy.

What is in the payload I wonder.

[quote] A dual battery system prolongs the flight time to a maximum of 27 minutes

They’re not drones

Is the payload some of that Chinese fenny?

I am wondering that too, R224 - what exactly are they referring to as payload? Extra weight? Some type of coveted information?

It wazza Unidentified Flying Oofball.

It's probably a long promotional campaign for a summer sci-fi blockbuster.

So drug smugglers?

Don’t blame me I voted for Kodos

It's Santa!!!!!!

Amazon deliveries?

Don't tell me Balloonapalooza '23 is over already.

Dammit.

We haven't seen any footage of these objects being shot down. I wonder why that is.

Neither shot down nor pre-shot down.

Oh, there's nothing to see here, move along.

Face it, they're either hiding something or oblivious.

[quote] they're either hiding something or oblivious

Joe 's record would allow for both

One of the balloons was most likely a hobby balloon that some kids were doing. A 12 dollar weather balloon. They say it went missing about the time the balloon was shot down. Can you imagine if this is just a bunch of kids doing aviation experiments.

[quote] Can you imagine if this is just a bunch of kids doing aviation experiments.

I did.

Joe fucked up so badly with the Chinese balloon nothing in the air was safe afterwards

R241 Only way for this to get even stupider. So, of course.

[quote]We haven't seen any footage of these objects being shot down. I wonder why that is.

I wonder why Karen? Maybe because not everything the military or pentagon does is an open book. It's not, it never was and they never claimed to be. Grow a pair and realize that the US Government like ALL Governments have a lot of state secretes when it comes to technology and protecting ourselves from possible attacks or known enemies.

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For Christ's sake, just unblock them, R245.

R245 Hi GapPlaylistGuy! 😘

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What a loser^.

R249

CNN has reported that the search for the objects has been called off because they haven't found anything. Now I'm certain they're hiding something.

People who block you and then post your R number to see what you said should be immediately red tagged, their IPs made public, and their eyes gouged out with knitting needles.

r252

[quote] Now I'm certain they're hiding something

Such as spending millions to send the Air Force off and kill children's toys

Childfen's toys shouldn't be flying at 20000 feet.

Terrorist children and their toys of terror.

Balloon hobbyists. They made a fool of the air force for shooting down harmless balloons. They are trying to keep it quiet because they are embarrassed.

R245

[quote]Balloon hobbyists. They made a fool of the air force

If you are a balloon hobbyists and you are releasing them to a height where commercial airlines can suck them into the jet engine, then that's a problem.

I certainly hope the Air Force is checking to make sure nobody at the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade has Russian ties.

And how would they do that Boris? You cant tell what is up in the sky if it's not broadcasting remote ID unless you can get up close to it.

Were all of the objects id’d? Or do we just not care?

I know, this story really went the way of the Dodo.

🙄 Sara Palin needs to stop reminding Putin that [italic] "I Can See Russia From My House."

They're hiding the info, they basically said nothing to be recovered and nothing to see here.

R265, if they’ve recovered foreign technology, they not going to specify what it was. That doesn’t make sense.

R262 The White House was using the military to control the news cycle. Everything they shot down was innocuous, there will never be any explanation given. The point was to distract the public and bury bad news.

Why haven’t they bothered to lie? What are we, chopped liver?

Only a January 6th Insurrectionist Magat Putin Puppet White Christian Nationalist would ever ask what happened with the balloon aliens.

Aliens are back on the table!