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[royfromaus]

Why are there so many UFO's being shot down right now?

[1ozzy]

But they carry atmospheric data collecting equipment, not high resolution cameras.
Plus they don't have a remote controlled rudder to help steer them where they are wanted,,

[ichkeria]

They aren’t weather balloons. They are spy balloons.

At least, the non-UFO ones are.

[10ClarionSt]

They're not UFOs. They're surveilance devices, apparently. I think it's Ernst Blofeld, launching these, so that China and the USA will blame each other. Defo.

[Gromit]

Why send spy balloons when China has thousands of satellites with high definition cameras ?

[ichkeria]

That is what many people ask.

However, surveillance balloons is what they are.

[mushroom25]

40 years ago, some German woman tried to warn us about this.......

[Gromit]

// Three unidentified flying objects have been downed in as many days, after a large balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on 4 February. That object was claimed by China, although Beijing has insisted it was involved in innocent weather research.

Gen Glen VanHerck, who is tasked with safeguarding US airspace, said the military had not been able to identify what the three most recent objects were, how they stayed aloft, or where they were coming from. //

[naomi24]

//The US military is unsure what three flying objects it shot out of the skies over North America were - and how they were able to stay aloft.

President Joe Biden ordered another object - the fourth in total this month - to be downed on Sunday.

As it was traveling at 20,000ft (6,100m), it could have interfered with commercial air traffic, the US said. A military commander said it could be a "gaseous type of balloon" or "some type of a propulsion system".

He added he could not rule out that the objects were extra-terrestrials.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64620064

Ooooo.....

[Ken4155]

Won't be long before the Americans shoot one of their own down. Blue on blue, and all that.

[Ken4155]

Naomi, good job they didn't shoot Mork's egg-shaped craft out of the air. We'd have been deprived of quite a funny tv series :-))

[Gromit]

I suspect the Americans are having a laugh. They know exactly what they are shooting down. A bit of target practice, and a bit of propaganda to appeal to the hawks in Government.

[naomi24]

Nanu Nanu. ;o)

[Ellipsis]

> A military commander said ... he could not rule out that the objects were extra-terrestrials.

Has the Internet melted with this statement?

[Gromit]

A great musical theme from one of the better Star Trek movies

[ToraToraTora]

Yep one of the better NG movies that one Gromit, good to see Prince Philip on form!

[mushroom25]

a nice touch at the end of that film, as Zephram Cochrane offers alcohol to the vulcans, and in response gets a lifted eyebrow......

[jno]

https://twitter.com/shantirrao/status/1624996079610793984?s=46&t=kAi0Tep_00o_9EPXfqes7g

[William51]

The Americans are jumpy. With tensions in the world high at the moment they are not taking any chances.

[Hopkirk]

When he said he couldn't rule out aliens, did he have a smiley smirk knowing he was feeding the idiots?

[fender62]