Chinese "weather" balloon floating over the US

[OLDNEWBIE]

I'm starting to guess this has been going on for quite some time.

Now the cat's out of the bag with the huge obvious one being spotted by everyone (maybe on purpose?), the Govt. is doing something finally to save face politically.

The biggest threat these objects pose is exposing/testing the weakness of the US to stand up to China I suppose. 

[RED333]

1 hour ago, OLDNEWBIE said:

I'm starting to guess this has been going on for quite some time.

Now the cat's out of the bag with the huge obvious one being spotted by everyone (maybe on purpose?), the Govt. is doing something finally to save face politically.

The biggest threat these objects pose is exposing/testing the weakness of the US to stand up to China I suppose. 

I as well thinking about the very same thing.

[KahrMan]

[Alleycat72]

We should release about 400 over with a pic of Xi performing lewd acts . LOL

 

[crc4]

35 minutes ago, Alleycat72 said:

We should release about 400 over with a pic of Xi performing lewd acts . LOL

 

Or Biden shaking hands and talking to invisible people. With his hand on the trigger that scares me so maybe it would scare them! 

[Alleycat72]

 

[Chucktshoes]

[Garufa]

The U.S. military on Sunday shot down another unidentified flying object over Lake Huron in Michigan.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-military-shoots-down-unidentified-flying-object-great-lakes-region

[peejman]

7 hours ago, OLDNEWBIE said:

I'm starting to guess this has been going on for quite some time.

Now the cat's out of the bag with the huge obvious one being spotted by everyone (maybe on purpose?), the Govt. is doing something finally to save face politically.

The biggest threat these objects pose is exposing/testing the weakness of the US to stand up to China I suppose. 

Good guess. They've been all over the world for quite some time. 

[Daniel]

6 hours ago, Garufa said:

The U.S. military on Sunday shot down another unidentified flying object over Lake Huron in Michigan.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-military-shoots-down-unidentified-flying-object-great-lakes-region

China is claiming they shot one down too.  

[btq96r]

Glad we're paying for a Space Force to watch the Air Force from whence it came shoot down UFOs. 

Edited February 13, 2023 by btq96r

[Sleep profit]

News said NORAD adjusted their filters so they can detect more threats. Seriously what where filers set for Santa Claus 

[Links2k]

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Edited February 15, 2023 by Links2k

[GlockSpock]

42 minutes ago, Sleep profit said:

News said NORAD adjusted their filters so they can detect more threats. Seriously what where filers set for Santa Claus 

Well…Christmas wasn’t that long ago. 

[Grayfox54]

On the national news last night they were saying that the U.S. knew about the balloon as soon as it launched in China. Politicians are now fussing about why they weren't we notified even sooner? 

[Links2k]

5 hours ago, Grayfox54 said:

On the national news last night they were saying that the U.S. knew about the balloon as soon as it launched in China. Politicians are now fussing about why they weren't we notified even sooner? 

Is it really necessary for DoD to notify politicians about every thing if there is no eminent threat?  I imagine if the ballon hadn’t been spotted over Montana we still wouldn’t be hearing about them. 
 

I trust our military to handle these situations. 

[gregintenn]

I understand our military is now shooting down weather balloons. I always wanted to go for a ride in a hot air balloon, but I think I’ll put that on the back burner for now.

[Links2k]

38 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

I understand our military is now shooting down weather balloons. I always wanted to go for a ride in a hot air balloon, but I think I’ll put that on the back burner for now.

Yep!

Edited February 17, 2023 by Links2k

[Garufa]

What a clown show this whole thing has become.

[Erik88]

What did I miss? We shot down a weather balloon?

[Garufa]

17 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

What did I miss? We shot down a weather balloon?

Nobody knows what we shot down but we shot down four something’s and the last three probably could have been handled with guns rather than missiles.  

Edited February 17, 2023 by Garufa

[gregintenn]

10 hours ago, Erik88 said:

What did I miss? We shot down a weather balloon?

To be precise, a couple of them were reported to be hobbyist balloons.

[analog_kidd]

They are saying the balloon shot down over Alaska may have been a hobyist club's balloon that got away from them. And we used a $200M jet and launched a $400k missile at a $100 toy.

[gregintenn]

14 minutes ago, analog_kidd said:

They are saying the balloon shot down over Alaska may have been a hobyist club's balloon that got away from them. And we used a $200M jet and launched a $400k missile at a $100 toy.

We are now the laughing stock of the world.

[Darrell]

4 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

We are now the laughing stock of the world.

We'll always be the envy of the world, or at least most of it. People clamber to come here. But I get what you're saying: the political class kowtows to the media who love nothing more than hysterical headlines.