Car sized object shot down from Alaskan airspace
The object was floating/flying at approximately 40,000 feet. This object presented a potential threat to commercial aviation, and was found near Alaska’s border with Canada. They deployed F-22 fighters to shoot it down, all occurring in US airspace.
From the Military Times:
The object was the size of a small car and was traveling near Alaska’s border with Canada, but the administration hasn’t determined exactly what it was and whether it was state-owned, Kirby said. Pilots on scene were able to assess that it was unmanned, he said.
“President Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did and it caved in inside our territorial waters,” he said. “And those waters right now are frozen, but inside territorial airspace and over territorial waters, fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object within the last hour.”
North American Aerospace Defense Command detected the object through ground radar on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed, calling in F-22 fighters to shoot it down with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile.
“The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a briefing Friday. “U.S. Northern Command is beginning recovery operations now.”
The Military Times has additional information.
Category: Air Force
one more and we win a prize
It wouldn’t shock me if it were a North American weather balloon.
Runaway balloon from a child’s birthday party pays the ultimate price.
Nah, Xi saw how bad his puppet was getting it over the last balloon, so he threw him a softball, and gave him permission to shoot this one down as soon as it was spotted..
If it were Chinese they would already be crying like a little bitch about it.
Apparently this guess was on the mark.
“The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects/index.html
Can we believe anything this administration puts out?
No! Gotta keep them headlines changing tho. There was a blurb late yesterday evening about Ol’ Jeff’s client list being “partially” released. It has since gone “poof”.
Back in the 50’s John Meshna Surplus in Lynn, MA useed to sell
weather balloons along with some other pretty cool stuff.
Seems one could have a lot of fun nowadays with one of those.
I remember those war surplus places selling wx balloons and jeeps in a crate that you would have to put together.
I think some Gal named Nena warned us about this shit in a song about 35 years ago! What’s next, a ban on balloons?
“! Awaiting for approval”
I’m on the naughty list.
Somewhere down on the ice is a corpse in a punctured homemade pressure suit, a lawn chair, and the shredded remnants of 75 helium balloons.
The Chicoms threw their boy a bone to help get him out of the hot water for letting their other spy craft complete mission!
Has anybody checked with Elon Musk? He launched his personal roadster into space back in February 2018 in a SpaceX test of the Falcon heavy rocket?
Maybe it’s come Back! 😜
Latest news reports are that NORAD spotted another one over Canada and the Canadians have shot it down.
Good shot, Hosers.
We are on a roll!
As 99 red balloons go by
https://youtu.be/hiwgOWo7mDc
Prefer the original German video
https://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY
Fitting.
Airspace over central Montana is closed
And another one was shot down over Canada today
Look at this news article from The Daily Caller: Pentagon Investigating Possible Object Over Montana
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/11/pentagon-montioring-airborne-object-montana/
I wonder how much each ballon costs. Those missiles can’t be cheap. Chi coms depleting our inventories and getting entertainment value.
I’ve seen reports the Canadians shot one down today and another report there is one over Montana again.
Can the Canadians afford this? I mean, don’t they usually rely on the United States for defense?
We were the ones that shot that one down today over the Yukon
Look at this news article from The Daily Caller: US Jet Shoots Down Second High-Altitude Object Over Canada
Amy Lee voted for Biden.
Disappointed.
I shall remove all her music from my phone.
Not that I have much.
Mostly Evanescence first album, really.
We need some less expensive options other than a sidewinder to shoot down a bargain basement balloon from china.
And………….another “unknown” object shot down over Lake Huron today.
This is getting a bit old
I wonder what’s really going on hear
Marvin ain’t happy:
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Makin’ him angry, very angry indeed…
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Another one bites the dust or Lake Huron. That makes four total. In a surprise move the Pentagon declared it isn’t aliens, even if they aren’t sure who it is.
This can only mean one thing… it is aliens. You heard it here first.
Up to no good, too.
The expert speaks.
i am not saying aliens but aliens – Bing images