Object shot down over Alaska

[ilikegunspdx]

It took 2 $400k missiles to bring the balloon down yesterday.

US military's first shot at unknown octagonal object over Lake Huron missed, officials say

The first attempt to take down an unknown object over Lake Huron, Michigan missed, officials said Monday.

www.foxnews.com

don't they have any planes with cannons anymore? sheesh. Would be a lot cheaper.

 

[CamoDeafie]

don't they have any planes with cannons anymore? sheesh. Would be a lot cheaper.

Isn't one of the gun safety rules "gotta know the backdrop"?

 

[Flopsweat]

don't they have any planes with cannons anymore? sheesh. Would be a lot cheaper.

If this turns into a regular thing, we're going to need a cheaper solution. Not that I expect that to happen, but still.

 

[Flopsweat]

Isn't one of the gun safety rules "gotta know the backdrop"?

At 40,000 feet, I think the sky is your backdrop if nobody's in front of you.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Don't bother with anything before 14:00 minute mark cuz it's the same audio but poor quality (audio track repeats around the 14:00 minute mark and is much more clear).

From pilot reports it sounds tiny. Based on size and strings hanging down maybe some oddball birthday balloon?, box kite?, remains of air sampling baloon?

At 6:58 18:58 mark sounds like he said because of the size of it gun would be challenging. Sounds like he said because it's so small, so slow, and so close he would be worried about hitting it after he shot it with gun.

Best object description at 12:50 21:50 mark (also after 17:00 mark).

 

[The Heretic]

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Bend Oregon dude who flew balloons and a lawn chair looks way way bigger than what they shot down (by the sound of it anyway). I'm thinking big a$$ party balloon maybe? Pilot said smaller than a car at one point.

 

[edzz]

Just a few more and everyone will have forgotten all about those pesky classified documents.

 

[Flopsweat]

Just a few more and everyone will have forgotten all about those pesky classified documents.



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And Biden ordering the destruction of the Russian underwater gas pipeline.

 

[Flopsweat]

 

[ilikegunspdx]

May have been mentioned already but local news said the air national guard F-15s out of Portland went out looking for the one shot down over Lake Huron the night before, over Montana. Sounds like it was getting late and they couldn't find it.

 

[Flopsweat]

May have been mentioned already but local news said the air national guard F-15s out of Portland went out looking for the one shot down over Lake Huron the night before, over Montana. Sounds like it was getting late and they couldn't find it.

It's too dark, the sun's in my eyes, these guys have excuses for everything.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Just a smoke screen to cover up the real story they don't want you to know.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Just a smoke screen to cover up the real story they don't want you to know.

Like https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epstein-docs-names-associates-made-public ?

 

[titsonritz]

Just a smoke screen to cover up the real story they don't want you to know.

What are you trying to say?

 

[The Heretic]

US believes Chinese spy balloon was blown off course after launch from Hainan Island: report

The US military and intelligence community had been tracking the Chinese spy balloon since it launched from a base on Hainan Island near the southern coast of China and officials are now studying t…

nypost.com

 

[Mike_M57]

I just saw one of these floating over the Grand Coulee Dam. Looks Chinese to me.

 

[Flopsweat]

I just saw one of these floating over the Grand Coulee Dam. Looks Chinese to me.


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Dinner balloon.

 

[Cavedweller]

Relax everybody. It was nothing. But we shot them down anyway.

Objects shot down aren't from China, likely ‘benign,' Kirby says

Intelligence officials believe the objects could be “tied to some commercial or benign purpose."

www.politico.com

 

[CamoDeafie]

Relax everybody. It was nothing. But we shot them down anyway.

Objects shot down aren't from China, likely ‘benign,' Kirby says

Intelligence officials believe the objects could be “tied to some commercial or benign purpose."

www.politico.com

The problem is that so far, I haven't read or heard of any companies claiming the balloons and objects and suing the US DOD for the shoot downs?