This time, an F-16 sufficed.
Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
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#22Have aliens invaded and we just don’t know about it, the government holding them off lowkey? Edit: Now China’s shooting them down! https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/12/china-says...
even better, it’s staged! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx2ris
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#23Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
You overcome vast interstellar distances with a balloon and then sit there while primitive missiles blow you up?
It seems inevitable that eventually someone in a different dimension would find a way to start crossing dimensions, and start a recon program to report back on "good" dimensions.
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#24Have aliens invaded and we just don’t know about it, the government holding them off lowkey? Edit: Now China’s shooting them down! https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/12/china-says...
An undersea civilization is exploring the air world.
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#25Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
They are UFOs. But the normal kind. Not the little green men X-Files kind.
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#26Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
You overcome vast interstellar distances with a balloon and then sit there while primitive missiles blow you up?
Maybe they had no idea that was a thing. A super advanced species that either never considered it or was phased out so long ago the knowledge was lost. They’re just up there watching and freaking out a bit.
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#27Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
You overcome vast interstellar distances with a balloon and then sit there while primitive missiles blow you up?
As we've seen with our space probes, its difficult enough to land something on another planet and have it survive, nevermind equipping it with any offensive or defensive capabilities. Maybe these aliens are in the same place. They can get the balloon here, but just barely, and they're watching in dismay as their work get dismantled.
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#28Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
You overcome vast interstellar distances with a balloon and then sit there while primitive missiles blow you up?
To be fair, human beings have been to space as well and routinely get trounced by something as primitive as a mosquito bite.
Maybe the UFOs were built to withstand alpha-gamma-laser-magma-pulse rays, not our primitive projectile based weaponry!
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#29Couple 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...
I figure we're hearing about it to quell any fear or paranoia about domestic airspace being entered now that it's a well-known thing.
Re: Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
#30On 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.
The cylindrical description fits what could be hung from a balloon, however.