A third object shot down

[jon-nyc]

I guess Biden now gets to choose a plush pikachu toy from the concessionaire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/us/politics/unidentified-object-canada-alaska-pentagon.html

[Mik]

Why waste an expensive Sidewinder when you could just plug it with machine gun fire? Seems excessive for an object the size of a tiny car with no evasive ability.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in A third object shot down:

Why waste an expensive Sidewinder when you could just plug it with machine gun fire? Seems excessive for an object the size of a tiny car with no evasive ability.

F-22's can carry a gatling gun and the object was well within the aircraft's operational ceiling. Maybe they don't want to get close enough to use gunfire?

[Copper]

The purpose of the balloons is to get an up-close look at our missiles

Mr Biden is only too happy to oblige

[George K]

So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.

Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?

Something tells me it's the latter. I would be surprised if China whoever is deploying these things all of a sudden.

[Mik]

I’d agree with you.

I feel much the same way about classified documents. I suspect it’s been an open secret that yeah, you really shouldn’t, but everybody does and no one asks.

[jon-nyc]

What the?

[George K]

JFC

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

Seen on Twitter: " I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. If it's the Chinese, blow them out of the air."

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

There’s nothing in Havre but miles and miles and miles of wheat. Have at it.

[George K]

@Mik

[Mik]

Yep the odds of hitting anything are infinitesimal. But the question is what is it and how did it get there.

[George K]

@Mik said in A third object shot down:

Yep the odds of hitting anything are infinitesimal. But the question is what is it and how did it get there.

Indeed.

And I just can't believe that this is all just a coincidence.

4 events in 9 days?

Nope.

[George K]

NOTAM pulled.

[Aqua Letifer]

Canada have anything to say about this? I can't find anything.

[Renauda]

@Aqua-Letifer

I don’t know why you can’t find anything. The story is is at the top of virtually every news source in this country since around 2:30 pm MDT Saturday afternoon.

In the meantime try this link to start:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-monitoring-airborne-object-north-1.6745575

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in A third object shot down:

So, we've had 3 flyovers in less than 10 days.

Is this something unusual, or is it just now being publicized because of the balloon popped last Saturday?

Just speculating … if no fly-over object ever got publicized, North America can know about them, strategically feed them with misinformation, and let the fly-over objects carry bad intelligence back to their operator(s). But once one such fly-over object is publicized, the adversaries know that you know and this sort of counterintelligence tactics won’t work anymore, you might as well just neutralize the fly-over objects.