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Posted: 2/10/2023 4:50:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Pentagon won't characterize the object shot down. They are not biologists. To be fair, it might have identified as a boat. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 4:51:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We're starting a war with China duh. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ok wait a min...wait. So *if* this was happening before, like during the Trump admin, why all of a sudden are we getting shoot-down happy? Assuming the pre Biden stories are BS (I think they are,) and this last one being discovered floating above Montana embarrassed the swamp so they're acting all big and bad now. Again, if the ChiComs were doing this for years prior why all of a sudden are we posturing like this. Yes this is rhetorical as in tongue and cheek. We all know why... Weird logic, shooting stuff down in our airspace is starting a war. Is there going to be a pivot from Russia not being a threat but rather China is to something else now? Interesting. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 4:52:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Makes perfect sense. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: For some reason, they are not wanting to call this a balloon. They got close enough to say it wasn't manned, but can't say it was a balloon. Makes no sense. Makes perfect sense. They say they shot it down at 40k feet.... drone maybe? |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 4:52:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ummm, snow machines have been used for the last 60-70 years for transportation in northern Alaska.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 4:53:40 PM EDT
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/pentagon-downed-object-over-alaska.html Another Chyna barroon, or an honest to goodness UAP? Jennifer Griffin remarked the other day that the UAP Task Force is apparently the only DoD entity maintaining an inventory of anomalous sightings, and that such info has been shared with the Intelligence Committee as the data contains a lot of info on the Chyna barroons. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 4:57:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They say they shot it down at 40k feet.... drone maybe? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: For some reason, they are not wanting to call this a balloon. They got close enough to say it wasn't manned, but can't say it was a balloon. Makes no sense. Makes perfect sense. They say they shot it down at 40k feet.... drone maybe? Makes sense to me, especially since Kirby corrected a reporter calling it a balloon. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:00:54 PM EDT
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So size of a small car. That removes balloon from the conversation, surely? Many car sized drones able to get up that high?
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:02:00 PM EDT
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The Chinese sure are careless with where they fly those things.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:05:24 PM EDT
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The year 1983 gave us 99 Luftballons! So far, 2023 has given us one white balloon from Red China and one unidentified object of some sort from some unknown entity.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:09:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:12:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They done F'ed up. It was a legal amateur radio "pico" balloon.  https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/253604/37C2A171-14CF-4833-8061-4AC33EAE4EB0_jpe-2705788.JPG |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:14:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They done F'ed up. It was a legal amateur radio "pico" balloon. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/253604/37C2A171-14CF-4833-8061-4AC33EAE4EB0_jpe-2705788.JPG What makes you say that is the one? This one was shot in NE Alaska. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:16:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They done F'ed up. It was a legal amateur radio "pico" balloon. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/253604/37C2A171-14CF-4833-8061-4AC33EAE4EB0_jpe-2705788.JPG |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:18:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All because he has a much higher IQ than you do. "Hey poor kids are just as bright and as talented as white kids." |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:18:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:18:45 PM EDT
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Flightradar24 app shows HBAL619 off Souix Falls. is it chinese?
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:23:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We're starting a war with China duh. Once and for all, let’s just get it over with. China and Russia at the same time. What a bunch of fucking schmucks we have in DC. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:23:54 PM EDT
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In for the EMP China alien craft info.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:30:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So a car sized object?? Pretty small for radar I’d think. If you're referring to being able to see it on radar, you definitely can. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:33:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We're starting a war with China duh. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ok wait a min...wait. So *if* this was happening before, like during the Trump admin, why all of a sudden are we getting shoot-down happy? Assuming the pre Biden stories are BS (I think they are,) and this last one being discovered floating above Montana embarrassed the swamp so they're acting all big and bad now. Again, if the ChiComs were doing this for years prior why all of a sudden are we posturing like this. Yes this is rhetorical as in tongue and cheek. We all know why... I'd say it's the other way around. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:33:23 PM EDT
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Did we ask the Colombians ? If they use submarines, maybe they use balloons.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:42:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:45:16 PM EDT
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Private..you’ll be manning a radar installation in Alaska next time you fuck up…but it won’t be boring.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:45:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That one is like 2000 miles from the one they shot down. Look at the time stamp. That was a position report from yesterday. It moved. They move. This isn’t my first rodeo. I’ve sent my own to over 120,000 ft. A buddy had one complete multiple complete circumnavigations. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:47:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably launched by Team Xiden just so it could be shot down. this, trying to make the kid sniffer look tough |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:48:57 PM EDT
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I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems like that balloon is capable of reporting it's position? I assume that would have been picked up and easily identified. Does a pico balloon look like a traditional balloon? Interesting info, thanks.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:55:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 5:58:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:19:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryJeebus, how much do those missiles cost vs a dang balloon? I think we need some 20mm balloon charmer rounds  Do they make something like a 20mm canister or shotshell thing already? |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:27:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd say it's the other way around. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ok wait a min...wait. So *if* this was happening before, like during the Trump admin, why all of a sudden are we getting shoot-down happy? Assuming the pre Biden stories are BS (I think they are,) and this last one being discovered floating above Montana embarrassed the swamp so they're acting all big and bad now. Again, if the ChiComs were doing this for years prior why all of a sudden are we posturing like this. Yes this is rhetorical as in tongue and cheek. We all know why... I'd say it's the other way around. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:27:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why didn't they shoot the first one down over AK? 
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:28:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No offense but I'll take John Carpenter's word over yours. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: UFO down on the ice. If the recovery team takes sled dogs along we're fucked. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/312702/download__1__png-2705681.JPG Ummm, snow machines have been used for the last 60-70 years for transportation in northern Alaska. I've worked in both the Arctic and Antarctic and I can assure you the risk is far overstated. The sled dogs almost never become infected with alien creatures from crashed UFO's, which run around eating scientists. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:30:21 PM EDT
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It was "cylindrical" and "silverish grey," ABC's Martha Raddatz was told.
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz first reported that when fighters were scrambled, the pilots did visuals, got images and said there was no sign the object had propulsion. It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said. Asked if was "balloon-like," the official said, "All I say is that it wasn't 'flying' with any sort of propulsion, so if that is 'balloon-like' well -- we just don't have enough at this point." |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:32:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:37:56 PM EDT
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They have discovered our weakness. Balloons.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:38:04 PM EDT
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(looks over glasses)
[Jeffrey Pelt] Chairman Xi, you've lost *another* balloon? [/Jeffrey Pelt] |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:39:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TACIT BLUE on display: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/369122/A11768D2-6A83-4C5F-8278-E1BD9B6256FA_jpe-2705876.JPG Just an FYI.., Quote HistoryQuoted: TACIT BLUE on display: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/369122/A11768D2-6A83-4C5F-8278-E1BD9B6256FA_jpe-2705876.JPG Just an FYI.., D-21 has entered the chat 
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:41:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why didn't they shoot the first one down over AK? China told Brandon to let it go so it could complete its mission, you can pretend to get the next one. Brandon : ok, “But I’ll keep getting my 10% right?” China…….sure……?? |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:48:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was "cylindrical" and "silverish grey," ABC's Martha Raddatz was told. ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz first reported that when fighters were scrambled, the pilots did visuals, got images and said there was no sign the object had propulsion. It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said. Asked if was "balloon-like," the official said, "All I say is that it wasn't 'flying' with any sort of propulsion, so if that is 'balloon-like' well -- we just don't have enough at this point." Getting interesting , what's left of that thing after a proximity warhead explosion ? , Alien tech might survive fairly well .can a balloon that small get to 40M ?, plus it would be in the polar Jetstream and moving along . Now we get aliens involved ? |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:51:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was "cylindrical" and "silverish grey," ABC's Martha Raddatz was told. ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz first reported that when fighters were scrambled, the pilots did visuals, got images and said there was no sign the object had propulsion. It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said. Asked if was "balloon-like," the official said, "All I say is that it wasn't 'flying' with any sort of propulsion, so if that is 'balloon-like' well -- we just don't have enough at this point." 
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:53:50 PM EDT
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Maybe they are decoys and will send a shit load so we use up a big portion of missiles shooting them down.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 6:56:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jeebus, how much do those missiles cost vs a dang balloon? I think we need some 20mm balloon charmer rounds Do they make something like a 20mm canister or shotshell thing already? Quote HistoryQuoted: Jeebus, how much do those missiles cost vs a dang balloon? I think we need some 20mm balloon charmer rounds Do they make something like a 20mm canister or shotshell thing already? I bet we were 500x financially into that last balloon over what it cost China. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:05:11 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:08:21 PM EDT
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I see fighter jets pretty regularly fly in and out of Moffett field. The ones this week have been armed with missiles. Chinas fuckin around and about to find out.
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:16:23 PM EDT
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Object shot down over Alaska earlier today by U.S. military was "cylindrical" and "silverish grey," ABC reports.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-high-altitude-object-alaska-white-house/story?id=97040022 |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:17:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Object shot down over Alaska earlier today by U.S. military was "cylindrical" and "silverish grey," ABC reports. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:19:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So Kirby says US fighter jets took a look and determined it was not a manned vehicle and downed it because it was at a lower altitude and posed a threat to air traffic. If jets were that close how are they still claiming they do not know what it is. Supposedly downed on frozen water aka ice so they should be able to recover quickly. They know. |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:25:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We shot down a UFO. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Object shot down over Alaska earlier today by U.S. military was "cylindrical" and "silverish grey," ABC reports. If I were Winnie the Pooh I'd have some balloons made up to look like various UFOs and release them, just to mess with Biden. 
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:26:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. Climate change. No ice there. Tropical. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'd think it's just laying on the ice. Off the coast of the north slope....in February...there is ice right? No. Climate change. No ice there. Tropical. This |
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Posted: 2/10/2023 7:27:08 PM EDT
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2 options, China launched a little one to give PedoJoe a chance to redeem himself.
Balloon is of US origin, same reason. |
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