Is there nothing we can send up to take a picture of it?
Edit: ffs, Do the downvotes mean "obviously there is" or "obviously there isn't"?
US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
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#192Foreign Ministry of Defense for Canada confirmed it was not a balloon, but a small cylindrical object.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any reason they would not? Maybe they just caught this time. I'm being serious btw
Extraordinary claims. The burden of proof is on the claimant. Might as well say it’s wizards showing up… because wizards don’t have a reason not to.
To addon
"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes"
"Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-...
"It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-high-altitude-obje...
"Defense Department official said it broke into pieces"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/unidentified-...
That sounds vaguely similar to the one purportedly shot down over Russia last month:
"Vasily Golubev, the governor of Rostov oblast, wrote on Telegram that a "small-size object in the shape of a ball" had been discovered flying "in the wind" at an altitude of around one and a half miles on January 3."
Any connection to the spherical metallic ball UFO caught over Iraq by U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in 2016?
https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/possible-ufo-caught-on-camera-...
2014 Chilean Navy UFO looks pretty similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI&ab_channel=FoxNe...
As does the U.S. Navy footage of a UFO caught off the coast of San Diego in 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-6jRrbtuI&ab_channel=TODAY
Another similar looking metallic sphere UFO caught by the U.S. Navy in 2021:
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/K5ohaoh2ayfECjmuxtczQJ-970...
Re: US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
#194Surely this is not the world's slowest declaration of war? Whoever country is sending whatever these artificial objects are, what can they possibly gain from this?
I propose we launch our own balloons, with razor blades. Last balloon wins. World's slowest war.
Actually, though, sling some detcord over the enemy balloon and set it off... (I don't know if detcord really works like that, but I'm pretty sure razor blades won't do the job either. :D)
Re: US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
#195"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-... "It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.…
Is it just me or does this sound unremarkable?
If we take one question mark from each event, we can construct a very spooky narrative. But none of the question marks, on their own, seem all that peculiar.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was wondering why China wouldn’t include a self-destruct feature. My daughter pointed out that crashing into a US city, even unintentionally, would probably be seen as even more hostile than sending the balloon in the first place. You obviously could choose to self destruct in a remote area or over water, but they may well have considered the escalation risk to be too high if they added potentially destructive capa…
Reportedly the NC balloon did have explosives to self destruct.
NC?
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#197"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-... "It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.…
Sounds like a shiny balloon to me.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
MALE/HALE UAVs have an endurance of 30> hours and a range of nearly 4-5000 (7000km>) nautical miles without aerial refueling.
Sure, but those have wings. A cylinder would have to maintain altitude with some kind of thrust. Lets imagine something like a jet engine oriented vertically. How much flight time do you think that could manage?
I don’t personally think that the 2nd object was a drone at least not a traditional aircraft UAV, I just replied to correct the assumption that drones have a relatively short range and low endurance.
Re: US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
#199"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-... "It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.…
Sounds like a shiny balloon to me.
Funny, they confirmed it was unmanned but they refuse to confirm whether its a balloon. Bit weird don't you think?
Re: US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
#200What are the chances these are warnings by another power for Ukraine?