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https://warisboring.com/air-force-launches-f-22s-in-response-to-another-balloon-being-tracked-over-us-air-space/?fbclid=IwAR3D2FY_CGNJ1iPSgFTXYWnBRmtvIwNKgUv4UBAmt_cQfQ4LCKQo1gb3AAA

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I was flying a local many years ago with our C-5 AD advisor , who was a LtCol and on his 18th year and he told me his next assignment was going to be working at a prison in Afghanistan. I about leaped out of my FE seat and hit the ceiling! I was more mad than he was. He calmed me down by telling me that he had a bum knee that he was nursing and was going to play the medical card when the time came. I think that was when I realized that Big Blue never really had their head in the game and was more focused things that really didn’t matter! No wonder the whole Afghanistan adventure turned into a boondoggle!

Maybe this is what was shot down over Lake Huron! https://www.festo.com/us/en/e/about-festo/research-and-development/bionic-learning-network/highlights-from-2006-to-2009/airjelly-id_33841/

I guess my analogy of the grunt throwing the grenade was not the best. My point was that a video of a grunt chucking a grenade is the very tail end of a decision tree leading up to a conflict and has zero bearing on what lead up to that decision so classifying said video makes no sense. Contrast this to the first balloon where we have cockpit photos of a U-2 orbiting the balloon which demonstrates capabilities and response and probably should have been classified and well as pictures of the speedy recovery of the wreckage at sea.

Well does that mean that all future shoot downs will (or are) done in secret to protect the National decision chain? By that logic a video of a grunt throwing a grenade in a bunker exposes our decision making process in deploying and mobilizing troops to a conflict. The shoot down was the end product, the valuable intel is the NORAD, AWACS and other tracking assets that of course should remain secret. The AIM-9 were just the bayonet at the end of the whole process.

And that is where the potential for abuse begins when you cherry pick which information you release. I can understand F-35 and maybe F22 video, but we probably have a decade or more of F-16 cockpit and sniper POD videos from our Punic wars so what’s so secret from shooting down a balloon or some sort of lighter than air vehicle. If we are classifying them out of embarrassment because they were commercial balloons then that undermines the whole classification system not to mention denying potential safety of flight information being passed on to aircrews or civilian air traffic. Also I wonder if NORAD have returned their radars back to their original settings to avoid detecting these things!

I’m not the only one to notice the incongruity between the release of the Reaper drone video and the complete lockdown of the three shootdowns. The Black Vault attempted to do a FOIA request and was denied due the the events being classified.

Is that like “pre-crime” as in Minority Report?

DIVADS released video footage (quite quickly I might add) of the collision between the MQ-9 and SU-27. It appears the Russians were trying to dump fuel over the Reaper, probably to induce a compressor stall rather than deliberately run into the Reapers’s propeller (you can see the bent prop in the video) And yet video of the shootdown over Lake Huron has yet to be released and probably never will be!

Anybody read Danish? Apparently a small object has been spotted near the pipeline! https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/nord-stream-ekplosionerne-antenne-lignende-objekt-fundet-taet-paa-roerledningen

The whole thing was very weird to me with the extensive coverage of the first balloon being shot down, pictures of the recovery and shots from a U-2 aircraft to the very confused and contradictory information they were marble mouthing out on the remaining three shoot-downs! The shoot-downs over Alaska and Canada were probably civilian balloons and the one over Lake Huron was some sort of surveillance dirigible that was tracked for a while and had AWACS and tanker support to accomplish this so it was surprising that no Coast Guard vessels were on station on because Lake Huron was sunny, 48° F, and had some “choppy” waves!

I guess the balloon war has been won since there appears to be no more shoot downs or sightings! Despite being able to recover F-35, F-14, SR-71, Russian Submarines, etc from the depths of the oceans, Lake Huron is just too much of a challenge for a DSRV to navigate!

This podcast details how likely these latest “unidentified objects” or “not balloons” (most probably dirigible or some kind of airship) came from central China using predictive wind models from NOAA data.

The powers that be keep insisting that these are not balloons, but also not saying that they are lighter than air vehicles, i.e. dirigible or airship which is what I assume they are. I don’t know why there is such a marble mouthed narrative to these latest shootdowns compared to the first balloon, but maybe because there were photographs of the first balloon out there so it was much harder to control the narrative!

https://www.duffelblog.com/p/report-all-female-crewed-chinese?fbclid=IwAR1ZR5q7n0u6b4jZ0Vqlm9dV_RkClCd6Ilcke-xnTIDuA7q3274CiOz22HE

Anybody have tips on how to make a tinfoil hat? I never had the need to make one so any help would be appreciated!

A craft that does not have wings nor it lighter than air that can traverse intercontinental? I also saw on TV a senator who said they had over eight briefings on the original Chinese balloon but none so far on these new ones. And if these are aliens, I’m kind of disappointed that they are so easy to shoot down, I mean where’s Klaatu ordering Gort to use his lasers to disable the missiles?

DW News claimed that the object shot down over Lake Huron was “octagonal” shaped and Senator Chuck Schumer said these could “possibly” be balloons! Well let’s hope so!

Damn, I wished they worked in my neighborhood!

Crap! I’m failing as a sexiest! Is there a video of an all female garbage crew picking up trash?

Yea, when are going to celebrate the first all female road crew laying asphalt in the summertime!

“Unidentified silver/gray cylindrical object” shot down over Alaska and Canada! It’s like they are deliberately trying to create conspiracy theories! I would have called it a drone dirigible but hey, what do I know!