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The U.S. military on Friday afternoon shot down a “high-altitude object” flying over Alaskan airspace that the Department of Defense was tracking over the last 24 hours, National Security Council official John Kirby confirmed at the White House.
“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, and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object and they did and it came inside our territorial waters and those waters right now are frozen,” Kirby told reporters at the White House briefing. Continues
Look in the sky, it’s a bird, no a plane. More powerful than a locomotive, leaps tall buildings in a single bound, it’s…..Xi I just can’t tell for sure.
Am hoping that the Foxes on Shemya weren’t disturbed .
Hmmmmm.
I wonder if chy-na is going to start sending over every old, worn out weather balloon they have, tricking us into wasting precious armaments, or will they begin to start dropping off real biowarfare agents.
Bull Shit. They shot it down but didn’t know what it was. Just short of impossible. They’re just trying to save face after their last screw up. It was probably a flock of Canadian Geese.
I wonder who in the PLA had Alaska in their pool.
Xi and the boys are really having a good time sticking it to Biden today.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-demands-us-explain-itself-world-over-nord-stream-attack-story
It was a Corvette. The poor guy was just commuting home from work.
(Look up the opening scene from ‘Heavy Metal’)
Have to side with Brad…just a worn out weather balloon or other worthless crap so Butthole can ‘save-face’.
Dr. Tar
About your link. A totally legit request. In fact I think most of America would like to hear an explanation.
Our territorial waters are frozen over???? That’s impossible! Al Gore told me so!
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12 years
One of Lisa Murkowski’s wigs, caught in a stiff breeze. Nothing to see here.
@ Brad
Sure, I would like to hear the explanation, just not the BS the government is going to try and feed us.
I don’t trust this administration’s word on its own without visual live evidence. On a side note there’s an article I saw on I think Zero Hedge about lasers from the sky, with photos, last week over Hawaii. Real interesting photos.
I’d love to hear an explanation too, but China asking for it makes it look like Jackass Joe didn’t clear it thru Uncle Xi.
Don’t we have some AF vets here? I know for a fact we have a pretty healthy protocol to follow before we blow ANYTHING out of the sky. And part of that protocol is knowing exactly what the F it is. These assholes suck at everything. Including lying.
Air force vets, jump in.
I don’t believe anything that comes out of this government.
PERIOD.
Tell one lie – you’re a liar – henceforth and forever.
DOD, DOJ, NSA, CIA, House, Senate, White Hut, State Dept., EPA, HUD, Labor, HHS, Agriculture, DHS, Education – whatever – they’re nothing but liars.
“If I say a thing I know is not perfect truth, it is a flat perjury (a lie).”
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight” But a wandering balloon wasn’t. More spoon fed BS to human sheep.
You’ll know it’s fake when you start seeing detailed pictures of the recovered debris from Alaska that have striking similarities to the few photos we’ll see from the one from the east coast.
Brad, I wish it would have been Congress with the guts to ask instead of letting the Chinese get a chance to embarrass this administration and by extension the rest of the nation.
Brad, you’re right. Intercepts usually don’t shoot down unknowns just to get free drinks at the O club tonight. Squeezing the trigger is the last resort. However, if the UFO is a broom and driver sports cankles they can fire at will.
AF vet from the 60s. Missing details. But the USAF back then would have been sure about taking anything out. Today, who knows.
Swamp gas was reflacting the light from Venus off a weather balloon. And you could see Russia from there!
CJ, thanks! I nearly choked to death on the saltine I was eating when I read you comment! 😂😂😂😂😂
F-101 had a powerful spotlight on the side of the fuselage. One night we scrambled on a P-3 out in the Pacific, headed for Whidbey. Seattle Center concerned because of no response. Scrambled F-101 snuck up alongside, noticed P-3 crew sound asleep. F-101 pilot flipped on the spotlight. Not sure if they ever got the pilots guts back in or not but they probably never fell asleep like that again.
All BS. To take your mind off of “died suddenly”.
The Pentagon believes that it’s the balloons that are making this administration look like a circus.
and, just like that, the nordstream pipeline sabotage disappeared from the news. Wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t shoot anything down
it’s bread and circuses, and they want us to run out of bread
Oh, so they do know how it’s done.
ok, there’s no reason to waste a missile if it’s only at 40k. You weak dicks need gunnery practice.
No,^^^^ 40,000 feet is in commercial air traffic pattern.
Both F16 and F22 have cannons. Guns. Why waste a million dollar missile.
Today’s Air Force is a far cry from the Air Force I was in. I know two things, Strategic Air Command didn’t put up with crap from anybody and John Kirby is a pathetic POS.
Brad, the F-15 has a 20 MM Gatling gun. There was an F-15 flying with the F-22s. The reason for not letting the 15 squeeze off a few rounds and letting a deflated balloon slowly fall to the ground, intact, is embarrassing but mostly political. The story will come out eventually.