Now they’re just fucking with us, trying to hide the real story by showing us shiny objects over there.
China is trolling the fuck out of us launching $40 balloons and watching us waste trillions of military weaponry on them
Sounds like these shoot downs are all previously undetected balloons floating in US airspace. I'll be interested to read how the military missed them.
I heard that the balloon was not actually for spying but that it was the only way China could ship a dildo that big for your mom
This would be unlikely and an unfortunate outcome but just for the content I need these balloons to be disbursing covid virus
My favorite is the folks convinced these are aliens and somehow they only are above the USA and Canada
From what I have seen posted, there is software used in our early defense radars that helps filter out things which are “probably not” aircraft. It filters out things moving too slow, too high, multiple reasons to avoid having us send up fighters after a flock of geese or something. It sounds like the filters were the reason we didn’t see the ones before. Once the first balloon was spotted, NORAD came out and said these had happened before and admitted they missed them. A few people wondered how they realized they missed them. I am betting we had military people/computers/AI review the recordings of the radar data and removed the filtering to better look for slow moving, high altitude aircraft. That’s when they realized the filters were causing us to miss these (my guess). Reports on Friday came out that we had turned off the filters and that’s why we were seeing them now. It is interesting if the one shot down over Lake Huron is the same one tracked over Montana last night which we sent F15s after. If it is, this means the object is somewhat stealthy as the F15s were not able to locate it with their radar. Maybe their radars utilize similar filters, I don’t know much about that. It seems the first balloon tracked opened the eyes of a ton of people in charge with defending the US/Canada airspace and we are now scrambling to respond and catch up. It’s curious what the payload/mission set is for these objects. Maybe they are just weather balloons, and maybe they have less scientific uses. Who knows. I expect the Defense department will put these things all back together as they have a history of picking up millions of pieces of debris off the floor of large bodies of water to reverse engineer things.
Some random guy on Twitter called this somehow last night or this morning. Basically said it’s likely China figured out our radar technology had gotten so advanced it would have trouble with balloons. Also said it would explain the previous ufo sightings by pilots as their radars when trying to lock on a nearly stationary object while going 800 miles an hour would make it appear an object like this was moving at a crazy rate of speed or something.
It’s a lot easier and more fun than admitting China and potentially other countries have been spying on us.
Here I am just assuming we were shooting down more balloons but it turns out the aliens brought ufos to an F22 fight.
This article is really long, but it has a ton of great/interesting info that explains what's going on. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...he-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos
There's reports of one in Scotland. There's some good notes in this article : https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/fighters-shoot-down-object-over-lake-huron Spoiler: Notes from Press Conference The DoD has held an off-camera press conference with Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs Melissa Dalton and the Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM Gen. Glen VanHerck that The War Zone attended. Here are some basic notes on the highlight from it. We will add further details once we parse the entire transcript. -Canadian CF-18s and a tanker were involved in today's investigation of the object over Lake Huron. -The object likely landed in Canadian waters. -It was likely the same object detected over Montana, but that F-15s could not find once they arrived on scene. -F-16s out of Wisconsin, a KC-135 tanker out of Pittsburgh, and a E-3 AWACS out of Oklahoma all were involved in today's operation. -NORAD began scrutinizing airspace more deeply since the Chinese balloon saga last week and 'enhancing our radar.' -They don't know exactly what these objects are, but they made enhancements to radars out of an abundance of caution and at the direction of President Biden. -They are trying to understand the purpose and nature of these smaller unidentified objects. -They are small and produce a very low radar cross-section, going at the speed of the wind. It is challenging to gain descriptions of them due to the speed of the fighters [strange statement as the fighters carry advanced targeting pods]. -Radars filter out information based on clutter, such as low-speed clutter. They have adjusted some of those filter 'gates' including velocity and altitude gates to see what was out there after the Chinese balloon incident. This was paired with a heightened alert to look for these types of targets. -First time NORAD has taken kinetic action against an airborne object in American airspace. -They won't officially categorize them as balloons or as having some type of a propulsion system, although there could be a gaseous envelope inside. They don't know what country they are coming from. When asked about aliens, officials said they just won't rule anything out at this point. -They don't pose a kinetic threat according to their analysis. They have made no outright hostile acts. -A hostile act would be shooting a missile or dropping a bomb, and hostile intent would be maneuvering aggressively toward a NORAD-controlled or other aircraft, neither of which has been the case. -They are assessing if their passing over key facilities is a risk or if they are a risk to aircraft in the air, or people on the ground. All of this goes into the risk assessment as to how to act against a target of interest. -They have scrambled fighters on tracks they cannot correlate with what those fighters see once on station. They cannot attribute some of them over the years. They may look back at overlooked incidents now that their posture has changed. -They are still searching for an object that was taken off Alaska's north coast. A Navy P-8 and helicopters are looking, but they do not have it now. -They had extra intelligence that the large balloon taken down off South Carolina was from China. -Risk to civilian aviation is a big factor in deciding to take down these recent smaller balloons. -Getting a radar track on these smaller objects is very hard. An AIM-120 would have a lower probability of success against them. Looked at using gun shots yesterday and today, but size of the target was an issue, as was altitude for the one from yesterday. They could get so close to the object you could fly into the debris or hit it. AIM-9X has been the weapon of choice. They use extreme caution to limit collateral damage. Clearing airspace, pilots check for mariners and aircraft in the vicinity, then the pilots used the best weapon they think will work. -Won't talk about if they have interfered with sensors, as has been reported. -No other objects are being tracked now. They could be out there, but they need to look back at old data to see if they were missing these recently. -Shape could make them hard to detect. Need to 'get their hands on one' to see if that's the case. Would not elaborate on the shapes they are seeing. -The last three objects shot down are similar objects in terms of size, that they go with the wind. -Each object of interest is taken on a case-by-case basis as far as to shoot them down or not. -As to why did it take so long to re-calibrate radars when the Chinese balloon program was briefed by intel last August? They say the timing in the intel after the Chinese balloon incident caused this to occur, before they didn't see a need then. The PRC balloon was different because it transited the continental US. -Will not say if they will release targeting pod video, as it is a policy decision. They hope to "share more in the coming days." -Contrast between the target and the sky above allows for AIM-9X to work well for this mission. -The FBI is taking the lead on recovery efforts and they are embedded with DoD to do so. Canada has the lead in recovering the one shot down there with the FBI to liaison and share information. Those are the abbreviated notes, please take them as such. We should have a transcript at some time in the near future
This appeared over us in Maine. Was moving pretty fast and the lights were all fixed in place. Guess I’m about to die Edit: starlink it is
They probably shot down a mylar balloon carrying children's letters to God from Duluth children's hospital over Lake Michigan