US claims to have shot down flying unmanned cylindrical object over Alaska

[SolidStateSurvivor]

The Pentagon and the White House declined to give a detailed description of the latest object, saying only that it was far smaller than the Chinese balloon.

U.S. officials declined to speculate about what the object might be, even after a day of observation, raising questions about what kind of object could be so difficult to identify by experienced U.S. pilots and intelligence officials.

The Pentagon said it was first detected on Thursday using ground radars. F-35 aircraft were then sent to investigate. The UFO was flying at about 40,000 feet (12,190 meters) in a northeasterly direction, posing a risk to civilian air traffic.


The object was shot down off the coast of northeastern Alaska over frozen U.S. territorial waters near the Canadian border. Officials said it would be far easier to retrieve pieces of the object from the ice than it was with the Chinese balloon, pieces of which sank in the ocean when it was shot down.
Ryder said American pilots who flew alongside the latest object before it was downed determined that no human was aboard. He added it was incapable of maneuvering and did not resemble an airplane. Ryder and other officials would not say whether it could simply be a weather balloon or another type of balloon.

"It wasn't an aircraft per se," Ryder told a news briefing.

The F-22 shot down the object at 1:45 p.m. EST.

Asked why Biden's authorization was necessary, Ryder acknowledged that the U.S. military commander overseeing North American airspace had the authority to shoot down objects that posed a military risk or risk to the American people.

"In this particular case, it was determined that this posed a reasonable threat to air traffic," Ryder said.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it closed some airspace in northern Alaska to support Department of Defense activities.

Since the shootdown of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-high) Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon, U.S. officials have been scouring the ocean to recover debris and the undercarriage of electronic gadgetry.

Ryder told reporters "a significant" amount of the balloon had already been recovered or located, suggesting American officials may soon have more information about any Chinese espionage capabilities aboard the vessel.

After Friday's object was shot down, some lawmakers praised Biden.

"Glad to see the president act swiftly on this new intrusion to our airspace," Senator Mark Warner, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said.

During an often contentious Senate hearing on Thursday, lawmakers criticized the Pentagon for not shooting down the Chinese balloon earlier, underscoring persistent concern in Congress about gaps in the U.S. ability to safeguard its airspace. -Via Reuters

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Not a lot of details out about this yet, but it reminds me a lot like those UAPs that we getting publicized about a year ago. There's some really wording and press regarding this whole situation, wonder what it was?

 

[Xovi]

its happening...

 

[PizzaW0lf]

Surely this song wasn't a prophecy...... right??

View: https://youtu.be/L2IYUehYj0I

 

[Remember_Summer_Days]

ITS HAPPENING

 

[Remember_Summer_Days]

But 4 real though do we have any reason to believe this was anything other than a chinese/russian spy thing

 

[InsufferableCynic]

It is time to activate the X-Com Project, commander!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttggec6eJFY

 

[WALFTEAM]

View: https://youtu.be/slYW7kkHyI4

 

[SolidStateSurvivor]

Another object shot down over Canada just now.

View: https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1624527579116871681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1624527579116871681%7Ctwgr%5E7d0f4e186a043450a334e865a257c3a7a34f1a4c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fthird-high-altitude-airborne-object-shot-down-us-fighter-jet

 

[Regal]

>China floats thousands of dollars of balloons over North America
>North American countries spend millions shooting them down and are probably being purposefully distracted from some other thing China is doing

Well played.

 

[Regal]

And now this happened:

Fighter jets investigate ‘radar anomaly’ over northern Montana

Fighter jets were scrambled Saturday to investigate a radar anomaly over northern Montana, federal and military officials say, but nothing was immediately found. It came just hours after an unidentified flying object was shot down over northern Canada. The incident began around 3:45 p.m. MT when...

bnonews.com

 

[NeoTokyo Tempo]

The news cycle this year is going to give me constant migraines isn't it?

 

[selfKaiHarness]

Here comes the Deep State with their failing new narrative: Fake as Fuck Alien Invasion.
Can't wait to laugh at their fearmongering efforts of scaring people into submission, as well as seeing Project Blue Beam itself to fail miserably in the process.

Well if we're going to see real aliens, they're going to be like Saiyans or something at first then it'll transition to humanoids and non-human aliens and so on. I'm excited for the real disclosure of ETs to come out on top. No more fear and BS from the Deep State, we just want to be fed with real truth.

I swear if i ever see saiyans in real life, i'm gonna have a nice chat with them this year. Maybe they'll react to Dragon Ball Z in a weird but truthful way. I don't know how if i ever going to meet them, but just as you know: Everything is possible in life. Nothing will ever be impossible.

 

[SolidStateSurvivor]

There's a couple of ways to look at this situation, especially since official information and credible leaks are scarce at the moment. As much as I'd like it to be ayylmaos I doubt it's that. The cylindrical UAPs disclosed a couple of years ago seemed to have maneuvering capabilities essentially defying the laws of known aviation physics, the odds of the US successfully shooting down something like that not only once, but twice now, seems low.

The other is that these are more balloons, probably Chinese but can't say for sure. But that begs the question of why the official language regarding these last two takedowns are so vague and details are scarce, especially with all the press the first one got. Official sources and the press were very quick to deam the first one a Chinese spy balloon. Meanwhile the government is saying that what was shot down over Alaska "wasn't an aircraft per se." Well how tf is it not an aircraft if it's flying around at a level deamed a threat to commercial airliners?? Perhaps it's just a poor choice of wording on their end but this vagueness just stands out to me as really odd.

I dunno I mean just the fact the US is actively shooting down objects in their airspace like this now is pretty crazy too me.

Personally I don't think this whole thing is some fake psyop/distraction. If that was the intent I don't think they'd keep the details as vague as they are, they'd have a flimsy narrative ready to go.

 

[Craige]

Probably not aliens, just China. If it was aliens and a starship or something got shot down, then that would be hilarious. At least we know an F-35 can take 'em.

I'm editing this post about two weeks after the fact: the fact that it's hobbyists or university weather balloons getting swatted out of the sky is way funnier than any of the scenarios my pea brain imagined.

 

[Craige]

View: https://youtu.be/slYW7kkHyI4

god dammit I could tell that was a Gerry Anderson show the second they put some special effects onscreen.

 

[Xovi]

having the government comment about OMNIs is funny, total bullshit. They were so fucking hush hush about them YEARS ago, why even fucking give them any attention. They are definitely up to something with this project of theirs. I may sound schizo as fuck, but this is like having a fake friend on your side being a yes-man, its weird. That fake-friend hated your guts, and now is agreeing with you? What the fuck, and seeing justin comment about a shot down OMNI. ok bro, go back to cuba with your grandfather, he misses you.
Sorrry if I sound like an angry schizo, but I do keep up with UFO Footage, and Sightings. I've been into this since I was a child.

 

[Xovi]

Most likely than not, i agree with the previous posters. These are definitely chinese airspace incursions. No ifs, ands, ors. Just both Canada and the United States do not want to freak out the public, so they keep it vague as fuck. For optic reason especially, disclosing that china is sending more and more ballons is just horrendous optic and a show of weakness compared to China is starting to get brave and bold.

 

[Regal]

The other thing to consider is that a civilization capable of intergalactic(/interdimensional) travel isn't going to be shot down by bullets and missiles. Modern discourse says that UAPs are bending gravity around them. Even if it wasn't moving I don't think you could even physically touch something like that.

 

[Collision]

But that begs the question of why the official language regarding these last two takedowns are so vague and details are scarce, especially with all the press the first one got. Official sources and the press were very quick to deam the first one a Chinese spy balloon.

One reason to be vague, that I don't think has been touched upon, is to limit the amount of information that an adversary knows about your own intelligence or capabilities. If they come out and say, "yeah this is another Chinese surveillance system. We've identified where they are being launched from and know what kind of payload they have." Then you tell your adversary what you know. Sometimes it's better to just shut your mouth and not reveal how much you do or do not know. The other reason, I would imagine, is that the previous transparency led a lot of people calling the President weak for not wanting to blow up some unknown payload over a populated area.

Meanwhile the government is saying that what was shot down over Alaska "wasn't an aircraft per se." Well how tf is it not an aircraft if it's flying around at a level deamed a threat to commercial airliners??

I would say that unpowered balloon is not an aircraft per se but is a hazard to air traffic if it's floating at an altitude that airliners commonly fly at (30000-40000 feet).

 

[Regal]

Another one shot down today:

US military shoots down high-altitude object over Lake Huron on Sunday | CNN Politics

The US military shot down another high-altitude object over Lake Huron on Sunday afternoon, according to a US official and a congressional source briefed on the matter.

www.cnn.com