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by xigency
1021 days ago
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> One of the objects downed by the US Air Force using a $400,000 missile last weekend may have been a $12 balloon released by a hobby group, a report said. > The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week that one of its balloons had gone missing, and that it may have been among the objects shot down by the US Air Force using a Sidewinder heat-seeking missile. > The club said that it had been tracking the course of its silver pico balloon. Its last reported position was on February 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska. > Pico ballooning involves flying high altitude balloons that resemble party balloons, then tracking their flight path as they travel across the globe. A pico balloon can cost anywhere from $12 to $180, according to reports. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/ufo-downed-400000-missile-ai... Most UFO sightings are completely banal things that are not recognized at the time, like camera artifacts and (unironically) atmospheric phenomena. |
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Completely agree, but in this case it was not a balloon. When asked specifically if these objects were balloons, a US general said no and that "we are calling them objects for a reason" (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-milita...). K9YO-15, the supposed missing balloon, eventually turned up and pinged again in late February and then March, weeks after the shooting down of those objects, as seen here: https://aprs.fi/info/a/K9YO-15
The weird thing with the three other objects besides the Chinese spy balloon we all saw pictures of, is that not a single image of the other objects was released. They were also shot down in known locations, but no debris at all were supposedly found. A few days after the first time ever that F22's shot down stuff over the continental US, the whole thing was buried, never mentioned again, and everyone was left thinking that they were all Chinese spy balloons, like the first one that was very publicly shot down.