Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
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#2Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#3Couple of interesting twitter threads on this from Tyler (The Drive). He suggests this has been coming/happening for some time.
https://twitter.com/aviation_intel/status/162414986417840128...
Also that we are seeing a lot more now because we have turned down/off the filters on the radars. Which means also we can expect a lot more false positives.
https://twitter.com/aviation_intel/status/162461466198661120...
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#4Why are there no photos of any of these except the original Chinese balloon?
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#5On the one hand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon
>Between 900 and 1,300 locations around the globe do routine releases, two or four times daily.
On the other hand, weather balloons are not silver-gray and cylindrical. A Google image search shows them almost always white and spherical to teardrop shape and pretty much unmistakably a balloon.
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#6Balloons could be a clever counter to what the US is doing with Low Earth Orbit satellites recently.
SpaceX is launching tons of spy/missile defense satellites over China as part of the Space Development Agency: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency
China has been complaining to the United Nations about it. https://press.un.org/en/2022/gadis3698.doc.htm
More details: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starshield_(satellite_constellati...
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#7Why are there no photos of any of these except the original Chinese balloon?
Well, two were over remote parts of Alaska. And this one just happened like an hour ago, so maybe pics will come out from people on the ground. In any case, the best pics from the first one over Montana were shot with telephoto lenses, so it’s not like anybody with a phone can snap a close up shot
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#8I wish there was more clarity on if these are balloons or not.
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#9Couple of interesting twitter threads on this from Tyler (The Drive). He suggests this has been coming/happening for some time. https://twitter.com/aviation_intel/status/162414986417840128... Also that we are seeing a lot more now because we have turned down/off the filters on the radars. Which means also we can expect a lot more false positives. https://twitter.com/aviation_intel/status/162461466198661120...
The Drive also covered the SpaceX stuff which recently turned into StarShield
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23733/spacex-exec-says...
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#10Why are there no photos of any of these except the original Chinese balloon?
They're probably being targeted before getting in range of media cameras, and are likely classified until declassified. I would doubt if we see another one over populated areas anytime soon. I would also bet these start getting shot down as they enter the ADIZ.