China seems to be testing the US air defense system, is this a sign that China is getting serious over Taiwan?
US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
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#293UFOs are just spy drones with sensor jammers and detectors that are designed to look strange and unnerving to pilots so they will scope them out. Pilots are trained NOT to go by them or engage with them for fear of secrets leaking.
> UFOs are just spy drones with sensor jammers and detectors… They can be, but they can also be weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
UFOs can be anything, by definition.
The interesting thing here is the social phenomenon of suddenly shooting them all down.
Coincidentally, I was just reading about MH17.
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#294I am curious if those "research vessels" carry whole bunch of tiny drones that can be released in places of interest and do some real surveillance.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Balloons are treated differently under the Chicago convention. There’s a little bit more leeway for balloons when it comes to overflights on sovereign territory.
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#296Does anyone else think these have been happening a long time but now they make front paper news because of recent activities?
Re: US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
#297I am curious if those "research vessels" carry whole bunch of tiny drones that can be released in places of interest and do some real surveillance.
Or worse https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
> UFOs are just spy drones with sensor jammers and detectors… They can be, but they can also be weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
UFOs can be anything, by definition. The interesting thing here is the social phenomenon of suddenly shooting them all down. Coincidentally, I was just reading about MH17.
And by the time you know what they are, by definition, they're not UFOs anymore.
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#299Is there a plausible explanation as to why the US government has not announced objects 2 & 3 are balloons, if they are balloons? They call them "objects", yet must know what they are. They wouldn't randomly missile unknowns. If it's for reasons of secrecy, why announce it at all? The second one was in the middle of nowhere, it could easily have been ignored, or dismissed as a military exercise if anyone had made a fu…
They are now saying they don't know how it was staying airborne (no visible balloon or propulsion) and when they approached to observe it interfered with instrumentation. Source: https://twitter.com/ZaidSabah/status/1624527081026486274
"They" are definitely not speaking for the US government.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm convinced that's why the balloons haven't been shot down in the past. Learning our detection abilities is probably way more important for China than anything they would be able to take a picture of.
We spent multiple days soaking information from them and monitoring them from high altitude. We almost definitely know more about them than they know about our defenses. The immediate assumption that the Americans are being snookered comes off like reflexive anti-Americanism.
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