Appearing at the White House podium, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communication John Kirby announced, “The Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours.” “We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now. We don’t know who owns it – whether it’s state-owned or corporate owned or privately owned, we just don’t know,” Kirby said.
The object first came to the attention of the US government “last evening.” Kirby told reporters that the US assessed the “object” to be unmanned before it was eventually shot down. Biden was first briefed Thursday night “as soon as the Pentagon had enough information.” The high-altitude object, Kirby said during a White House press briefing, was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.
There were two efforts to get closer to the object and evaluate it as it flew. The first engagement by fighter aircraft took place late Thursday night and the second Friday morning. Both engagements yielded “limited” information, Kirby told reporters. “We were able to get some fighter aircrafts up and around it before the order to shoot it down, and the pilots assessment was this was not manned,” Kirby added. WATCH:
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Shoot first, and take questions later…
It was a black balloon.
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BLM…Balloons Lives Matter!!!
Bolshevik Lives Matter?
Biden administration: “We don’t know what it was or why it was there… but we blowed it up anyway.”
Blowed up good!
Blowed up real good!
“Boom shaka laka!”
In the book A Scanner Darkly a bunch of male characters were helping their female neighbor because she was scared of a Mosquito Hawk – they told her it was harmless and she replied, “if I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
(…they then scurried out the door… horrified!)
“and when we knew what the balloon was last week, we didnt shoot it down until China got all thier spy data downloaded…”
Yes & downed it over the ocean where their divers could retrieve what they wanted unseen by the 4th estate?
No, unseen by any of us. The divers work for the 4th Branch of govt., with which the 4th Estate is in bed.
Got to look busy.
I guess they got the picture and message. Do your damn job!
Probably something we sent up…
TWA flight 800 anyone?
My gut response too. They are desperate for a propaganda victory and probably got paid for letting the CCP Spy Airship traverse the North American continent last weekend.
This “High Altitude Spy Object” might have already been in the pipeline as is takes a while to float from China to Alaska.
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I don’t know if the US Military ever acknowledged what might have been shot down over Montana, just as the first one was over Missouri.
Something was shot down but only the Chinese know.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/twa_800_25_years_of_deep_state_deception.html
Great reminder. TWA 800. What an incredible cover-up. A great reminder of the deceivious nature of the US intel.
I’ll bet 96% of Americans are not aware of the facts and info that is in that 2021 article.
It was a house, fixin to fall on Nancy
Cylons, Klingons or The Borg?
Nazgul
Yep, Sauron’s Eye, see’s all.
Trillion dollar budget, supposedly the best military on earth, but, we dont know what it is?
The pretending not to know things, intensifies….
Clown World, run by clowns.
81,000,000 votes my arse!
“Trillion dollar budget”… Clearly, DoD budget money was transferred from cockpit/HUD cameras to the more important duty of pronoun tagging — we will maintain our leadership on that front; can’t fall behind and have a pronoun gap.
Urinals in ladies bathroom and what not.
VERY expensive urinals, made by the $800 hammer company that gives 10% to the big guy, whoever that is at the time.
The Pentagon is concerned that its new all-gender urinals are made in china, thereby placing us at the mercy of long toiletry lines like at the wymyns ‘restroom’ at a movie theater in any confrontation with china. To protect our warfighting capability, DOD will negotiate an ‘airtight’ toiletry contract with the company that makes its pregnancy flightsuits for trans fighter pilots. /s
Yes, much worse than the Cold War – era bomber and missle gaps. 😀
Right!
Dig the Marshall
Thanks!
I love my rig!
JMD-100 head, with the Gibson SG. Its made for rock!
Clowns are silly and entertaining. This is neither silly nor entertaining.
This is Deceit World, run by Liars.
So when did they launch this object so that they could try to scam us into this next fraud to cover their lies etc etc etc
right before any new evidence of votefraud in Arizona, hunter biden’s refusal to provide records of china/ukraine income, the re-classification of the 1 ½ foot high stack of records PDJT declassified about the FBI/CIA russia-russia scam to hobble his Presidency, the evidence that the covid vaccine is harmful and ineffective, instead of ‘safe and effective’, etc.
Look over here, a balloon shaped squirrel. Don’t look at that deepstate crew behind the votecount curtain !!!
You forgot the evidence that it was our own “gummint” that blew up Russia’s pipeline, in an act of aggression in a proxy war with a nuclear enemy.
Totally unimportant story, of course. /s
how could I forget our act of aggression against germany to destroy their competition with our corporations which make campaign ‘contributions’ and buy ‘art’. ?
I must have been too focussed on mysterious alien “objects” so technically powerful that our DOD can’t even photograph them, much less prick a tiny hole in them to let the helium out slowly, to have them descend safely/slowly to preserve their cargo.
I’m not saying its ‘aliens’ , but it must be aliens …
Sure Kirby.
He reminds me of a door to door salesman or the guy who played the boss on The Office, Steve Karrel.
I’m sorry…but I don’t believe anything we are being told by this Administration or their media lap dogs…
Mismo! Same!
Viva Mexico.
Cut the Cord!!!
Not just this Admin – the entirety of the federal government cannot be trusted and the Pentagon is leading that charge. This from a card carrying, former military, dyed in the wool ‘Merca type.
All Democrats and their cohorts are proven LIARS!
The only Republicans that can be trusted are Mike Lindell and Donald Trump.
40,000 feet? Hope it wasn’t a passenger plane
Eight Miles High – The Byrds
“Eight miles high, and when you touch down
You’ll find that it’s stranger than known…”
If anything was reall shot down at all!
In Philadelphia, they once booed the appearance of Santa Claus at a football game.
Surely, Santa must exercise the reindeer between their Christmas appearances?
Would even the evil Democrats do such a thing..!
BOGUS will be mighty unhappilyish ift ish if it turns out to be that secret shipment of Beijing Jerry’s Peanut Butter Half Baked from Xi bro.
That was disrespectful. I never meant to imply that President Milk Shake was not elected in a landslide with a record 80 million votes. Nor that he is BOGUS.
Nor that he is FPOTUS…darn it, damn keyboard won’t sit still while I type.
Retired Magistrate here: Well, there went Superman.
Khaleesi might be a little pissed too, coulda been a dragon!
Yeah, they shot him down with one of those super duper double secret probation kryptonite missiles they’ve been dying to try out!!
Superman has been canceled.
It’s Superperson now.
What a joke!!! Now this corrupt & inept clown of an administration has resorted to likely shooting down actual weather balloons for a pat on the back. They know exactly what type of balloon it is. They also have aircraft with camera optics second to none, so, why haven’t any pictures been released yet?
OMG! They shot down the Wizard of Oz???
I wish!
Too little, too late.
Finally … the military’s performing military duties and leaving their woke agenda by the wayside … guess they finally figured out that these balloons have been overhead for years now, but they’ve been too busy with social issues and trying to not offend the woke crowd … maybe now they’ll start doing their jobs and leave it to the politicians the task of acting like clowns.
Don’t bet on that Leon.
Drone. Long loiter, high altitude. Not necessarily Chinese, especially over the North Slope.
We are under attack by balloons?
Yikes!
The circus must be in town.
Was it a balloon? They wouldn’t say, why?
Nah, the PC Police did away with the circus.
Biden and his incompetent generals are so trigger happy now they’ll be shooting down seagulls next
That’s against the law to shoot seagulls. Oh that’s right they are Democrats I mean commies
Sure… the Chi Coms thanks to the Occupant got what they wanted…who cares at this point…
Nancy says, “Shoot it down so we can see what’s in it.”
Shipment of Election 2024 ballots.
already voted, signed and ready to mail.
DoD, knee jerk reactions to look strong? You mean like drone striking an aide worker and a bunch of kids after Marines died at Abbey Gate due to Biden’s incompetence? Couldn’t possibly be the case.
Oh now they gone and done it. They shot down my collector edition genuine vinyl Bat Man kite. You know how many vinyl’s I had to trap to make one kite? A lot. This is war!
Only begs the question why they waited until the last one flew over the whole continent before they took it out.
If Trump wasn’t defeated by mass FRAUD … none of this would be happening. The Russians wouldn’t have invaded. And the ChiComs wouldn’t be blithely launching spy balloons over America. Elections have consequences. And to the voters who are “relieved” they no longer hear Trump’s “mean Tweets” … you won’t be “relieved” when the nukes start flying … you’ll be … “in-cin-er-a-ted”. F the weak and ChiCom OWNED Jao Bidinh.
Was it a broom? Did they notice any cankles?
You mean they finally shot down ole Nan?
Tryin’ to act all cool and in charge now…like John Kerry lurching into the sporting goods store, “Is this where I kin git me a huntin’ license?”
John Kerry “lurching.” Too funny! Intentional play on words?
This is just as funny:
Gee, I guess it IS possible to protect US airspace. Too damned late though. The Chinese already got what they were after last week.
How convenient for Joe.. I’m sure he personally ordered it shot down… I assume I don’t need the sarc/ tag
Yes…and this one was a “Major” breach…not unlike the first one…s
US Government balloon supplied by the tax payers to give the impression that they got it right this time
it escaped from a kids birthday party
I certainly feel safe with this Pentagon. Thank you MILLEY for being this brilliant
Probably a bird. Dementia Joe is really flexing now.
China probably figuring out how to defeat stealth of the F22. Quite frankly a very inexpensive way to do so
Please, Please -ignore all the OBiden Regime’s treasonous activities with China.
Look how proactive they were this time. Boom- shot that sucker down
….whatever it was. 🙄
Trap to Poper are you on Station?
Roger Trap PULL!
Folks it’s Friday, so what else is going on?!
This Dim sleight of hand covers up for Hunter, Nord Stream and I don’t have enough space to cover the rest…
Where is suspicious cat???
After they let the spy balloon finish collecting all its data and as a bonus got multiple encounters with the F22
Corn Pop out for a joy ride
OT, but back when that story was supposed to have taken place, the cereal was called “Sugar Pops.”
Any condemnation of China ?
Well, that is in the altitude range for commercial aviation….but an “object” the “size of a small car”?
It’s an airplane, a cruise missile, or a balloon. Any other options?
Drone.
UFO?
What will be the Dems excuses when Putin carpet-bombs Washington DC with hyper-sonic thermo-nuclear warheads?
This idiot nihilistic stooge is TRYING to get us all killed “to save democracy” or some such madness. Thanks Obama!
Those thermobarics that Russia have are no laughing matter!
Serious stuff…
So they sent a drone up so they could shoot it down and look tough after being totally punked by China?
Yes.
I wonder if they have bothered to tell Biden yet?
Who was the reporter that asked about something being shot down?
How did this reporter know about this to ask such a question?
Was this reporter given this question to ask by the people being questioned?
Biden was meeting with Brazil’s president when the question was asked 🤔
Another document found at pence’s house when question was asked 🤔
What else was going on behind the scenes in the swamp when this “story broke?”
This was all about diverting attention from the previous transgressions…
All to mask their incompetence.
An intrepid reporter gets a reaction from the president: “Bawwoons are purdy! I like bawwoons.”
“There you are America, finally the grownups are in charge. This is Snitty Bootlicker (news actor) reporting from the White House “
I’m just sure it isn’t from China. 🙄
Xi would never dare to send more spy balloons our way after Xiden showed him by shooting down the first balloon after it gathered Intel by traversing the entire diagonal the United States. 😡🙄
When you put a 🤡 in charge expect a 🎪
Is it appropriate to affiliate the confirmed illegitimate occupants of the W.H. with their “confirmation” of something….ever? I know why CTH does it but just sayin for the rest of us who dont mind the attention.
Gee, maybe Russia will have a 2nd pipeline Joe can blow up!!
“Abundance of caution” is definitely back….
That’s how we got lockdowns.
Watch out! If Kirby starts wearing scarves, we’re in real trouble.
a ‘men in black’ ballchinian?
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Man 1: Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird!
Woman 1: It’s a plane!
Man 2: It’s Superman!
Noon it’s a giant CONdome!
Karine Jean-Pierre should be able to fill in the gaps.
🤣🤣
Def of “gaps” please….
She is the gap in communications from this White House.
Did you mean gaffes? 🤔😉