Chinese Spy balloon?

[Alejo]

They will lie about the balloon retrieved material. It's the "empire of lies" after all. They will never admit to having freaked out and shot a meteorological balloon using a missile from a fighter jet.

I know, such an overkill, like lighting up a cigarette with a flame thrower. Though I daresay it was also part of the show of "strength"

 

[Juba]

Now this is not connected to the "spy balloon" but it is interesting the way NASA explain it:

According to Dr. Martino, Anthony J., a NASA scientist working on ICESat-2 ATLAS, it is not by their instrument but by others. His colleagues, Dr. Alvaro Ivanoff et al., did a simulation of the trajectory of satellites that have a similar instrument and found a most likely candidate as the ACDL instrument by the Chinese Daqi-1/AEMS satellite. We really appreciate their efforts in the identification of the light. We are sorry about our confusion related to this event and its potential impact on the ICESat-2 team.

Chinese "spook" all over the place.

Here is Tweet form Subaru telescope team on Maunakea, Hawaii:

On Jan 28, 2023, HST, Subaru-Asahi Star Camera captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawai`i. The lights are thought to be from a remote-sensing altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613. Watch the video:

 

[Pierre]

 

[sToRmR1dR]

'Let's see in what form the war with China will come.'

Biden says US not seeking conflict with China after warnings over balloon

US President Joe Biden says Washington is not looking for a conflict with China, shortly after warning Beijing against what he called threats to American sovereignty.

www.presstv.ir

09 February 2023

 

[Alejo]

Seems more effective than the F-35 for sure!

They can just throw a whole bunch of those on the floor and wait for their enemies to walk on them... eviiiilll!

 

[Jefferson]

Now we know who's behind this whole balloon thing

 

[dennis]

They're getting trigger happy- migration season will start soon.

A US official has said Friday that the US military engaged and shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska on Thursday night, upon the order given by President Biden.

It's unconfirmed whether the unidentified object was a balloon, "but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft," according to The New York Times, which first reported it Friday afternoon.

Biden Ordered Shootdown Of Unidentified Object Over Alaska Deemed "Threat To Civilian Aviation" | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[seek10]

I have to wonder what is going on with these shoot downs? some possibilities:

• Need some publicity for Biden's ratings on the back recent balloon pop by F-22
• Needs publicity for more military budgets. At least F22 can be used to shoot down balloons, if not any thing else.
• May be some frequency breaches are happening hear and there, so they are freaking out. May be they freak out on small items, so that people will ignore it when the real breaches happen.
• Some articles say "Unidentified Object Flying", "Unidentified object" and so on. Probably they want to send a message that Biden is the first president who shot down UFO.

US shoots down ‘high-altitude object’ of ‘unknown origin’ over Alaska

The incident comes a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down over South Carolina

www.independent.co.uk

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said in a briefing on Friday that the “high altitude object” was tracked by the Pentagon over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours.

“The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. Out of an abundance of caution, at the recommendation of the Pentagon, president Biden ordered the military to down the object,” he said.

“We’re going to remain vigilant about our airspace,” he added. “The president takes his obligations to protect our national security interests as paramount.”

The Pentagon said the object, which was about the size of a car, was shot down by an F-22 fighter jet with the Northern Command at 1.45pm EST.

Mr Kirby said there was little information available about the object at the time it was shot down, but clarified that it was “much smaller than the spy balloon we took down last Saturday” and had “no significant payload.”

“We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now,” he said. “We do not know who owns it, whether it’s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately-owned.”


In a separate briefing, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said the object was shot down by an F-22 fighter jet out of Elmendorf air force base in Anchorage, Alaska. The jet fired an AIM-9x short-range air-to-air missile to bring it down.

He added that there was “no indication at this time that it was maneuverable. It entered US airspace and we took it down.”


“The important thing to understand here is that any time we detect anything we observe it and then take appropriate action,” Brig. Gen. Ryder said. “In this particular case, it was operating at an altitude that posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic and the president decided to take it down.”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it closed some airspace in northern Alaska to support the Pentagon operation.

So the message is that an item that is the size of car, much smaller than spy balloon , un-maneuverable, with no payload shot down by F-22 out of abundance of caution by a president who takes security interests as paramount obligation.

 

[Petar]

Abs news reports that American pilots shoots high altitude object above Alaska, is it another Chinese balloon or White House have something else on thair mind?

US shoots down unknown 'high-altitude object' over Alaska, White House says

The U.S. has shot down what was called a "high-altitude object" over waters off Alaska, the White House said Friday.

abcnews.go.com

 

[mabar]

Abs news reports that American pilots shoots high altitude object above Alaska, is it another Chinese balloon or White House have something else on thair mind?

Must me very difficult to name the object.

 

[mabar]

Ohh... Perhaps IT is... Then again, will wait for more info

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624193073499471873

 

[Ca.]

Ohh... Perhaps IT is... Then again, will wait for more info

US shoots down unknown 'high-altitude object' over Alaska, White House says

The U.S. has shot down what was called a "high-altitude object" over waters off Alaska, the White House said Friday.

abcnews.go.com

'An F-22 out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson -- assigned to U.S. Northern Command -- shot down the object with an AIM-9X missile near Deadhorse, Alaska,'' Ryder said.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624181674975059972

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624204265618128897

190,654 views Aug 10, 2008
My dad and me spotted this U.F.O while on holiday in Brean, Somerset just below Weston-Super-Mare, we spotted it on July 27th 2008, a day before the terrible fire of the grand pier in Weston.

 

[mabar]

"It was difficult for the pilots to glean a lot whole of information"... "There was a limit of what much they could divine"

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"The pilots did visuals, got images"

Had seen too many action movies, they seem to be more effective than reality.

If it were that they shot down an UFO, the news has gone almost unnoticed. We depend on the authorities validity.

Difficult task.

I have not found an image of a thermal cell, though.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624176235860611072

 

[tschai]

I have to wonder what is going on with these shoot downs? some possibilities:

• Need some publicity for Biden's ratings on the back recent balloon pop by F-22
• Needs publicity for more military budgets. At least F22 can be used to shoot down balloons, if not any thing else.
• May be some frequency breaches are happening hear and there, so they are freaking out. May be they freak out on small items, so that people will ignore it when the real breaches happen.
• Some articles say "Unidentified Object Flying", "Unidentified object" and so on. Probably they want to send a message that Biden is the first president who shot down UFO.

US shoots down ‘high-altitude object’ of ‘unknown origin’ over Alaska

The incident comes a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down over South Carolina

www.independent.co.uk

So the message is that an item that is the size of car, much smaller than spy balloon , un-maneuverable, with no payload shot down by F-22 out of abundance of caution by a president who takes security interests as paramount obligation.

The first I have heard this- so they didn’t shoot this one down over water, and apparently not concerned about debris falling on people? Was it a remote area?
For a while anyway this whole thing may get folks looking up at the sky, so we may see an uptick in uap reports.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

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Had seen too many action movies, they seem to be more effective than reality.

If it were that they shot down an UFO, the news has gone almost unnoticed. We depend on the authorities validity.

Difficult task.

I have not found an image of a thermal cell, though.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624176235860611072

Even if it wasn't a real UFO, that is still the most entertaining option:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624259081996234754