According to multiple media reports, the U.S. military has engaged another Unidentified Flying Object over Lake Huron (Michigan) and shot it down. This represents the fourth UFO targeted and destroyed by the U.S. military in the past eight days.
The dogfight between an F-16 and the mysterious object took place just hours after Montana Representative Matt Rosendale confirmed the sighting yesterday over Northern Montana was not “an anomaly” and was indeed an unknown flying object in the sky. [Tweet Link]
(Reuters) – The U.S. military on Sunday shot down an unidentified flying object above Lake Huron, the third such shootdown in as many days, following a week-long Chinese balloon spying saga that has intensified the hunt for violations of North American airspace.
Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the military had shot down the object. They also did not say whether it was maneuverable or simply floating with air currents.
[…] Meanwhile, Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of an unidentified flying object that was shot down by a U.S. jet over Yukon territory on Saturday.
[…] U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who represents a district in Michigan, said the military had an “extremely close eye” on an object above Lake Huron, which is east of Lake Michigan on the U.S.-Canada border.
Canada also closed airspace on Sunday near Tobermory, Ontario, which is on Lake Huron near the U.S. border, according to Nav Canada, a private non-profit that operates Canada’s air traffic control system.
China denies the first balloon was being used for surveillance and says it was a civilian research craft. It condemned the United States for shooting it down off the coast of South Carolina last Saturday.
With military and intelligence officials newly focused on airborne threats, at least two other flying objects have since been destroyed over North America.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told U.S. broadcaster ABC that U.S. officials think the two latest objects were also balloons. The original balloon was brought down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4. A second was shot down over sea ice near Deadhorse, Alaska, on Friday. The third was destroyed over the Yukon on Saturday. (read more)
1) smaller than a car
2) shot down at 40000 ft
3) reportedly interfered with one of the jet fighters’ electronics
4) reportedly had no obvious means of propulsion or means to fly
5) silver grey
6) US officials described the object as a “small metallic balloon with a tethered payload,” while other media reports described it as “cylindrical” in shape. [*ability to evade detection]
7) Canada Minister of defense said they “defeated” object. Strange choice of words.
No pics of wreckage. Object over Lake Huron “decommissioned”. Rectangular structure. Taken out at 20,000 ft by F-16 with missile. Another object reported over China port.
Another pass by the E-3 Sentry over Northern Michigan. First over Lake Michigan, now near Lake Huron. What's going on!? #AirForce #ufotwitter pic.twitter.com/o4KcHD4bd8
— Nuge (@NugeWx) February 12, 2023
Just waiting to see what Randy Quaid is gonna say…
I guess rocketing a balloon is not as much fun as hellfiring a car with women and kids under the guise of attacking a terrorist (which it didn’t, oops). But got to find something to keep yourselves busy they must be thinking.
Alex Jones breaks down how the recent string of UFO takedowns by the U.S. military over American and Canadian airspace serves a larger function: to distract the public from the bombshell revelations exposing the Biden regime and NATO deliberately sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines to spark World War III with Russia.
Wait for it, “We need to unite under a World Government Authority to face this challenging threat from extraterrestrials, report to your local regime wellness clinic to be properly inventoried and identified”…
Are there any Republican politicians who take lying into account when they are told something by “an official”?
That’s a rhetorical question right?
Why, yes, there are. They take the lying into account and then add some more lies on top of it.
That is what you meant, no?
Certainly: our brave yet small cadre of the TruthTelling20 who are spearheading hearings right now.
Painting any group with a broad 100% brush is never accurate and invites despair.
Granted our defender group is tiny and desperately needs more strength. But please refrain, I ask, from denying its very existence. That small group deserves much better.
It sounds like you think the 20 are an exception. I think we can appreciate the boldness they showed in the speaker’s vote, but still question things.
Rosendale was my favorite speaker during the voting, but the idea that the official might be lying didn’t enter his thoughts?
Above all, our hope must be in God for there is no despair in Him. And to pray for these representatives for God’s discernment and wisdom.
If you want a distraction from Joe blowing up a pipeline—-LOOK A BALLOON!!!!
Colored lights can hypnotize, sparkle someone else’s eyes.
I think it is far more likely that this is a distraction about Biden’s corruption or about Biden blowing up Ohio.
Nobody was talking about the pipeline anymore anyway. Personally, I think Greta did it.
….” The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will conduct an air defense exercise on Tuesday, February 14, between midnight and 2:30 a.m. EST, according to officials, around the Washington, D.C. area.
The announcement came after a fourth object over the past week was shot down on Sunday, this time over Lake Huron in Michigan.”…..
https://www.foxnews.com/us/norad-gives-notice-air-defense-exercise-washington-dc-tuesday
Maybe a P-51 fighter with their standard machine guns would be better for this job than a jet with missiles?
42,568 feet is the altitude record for a P-51.
True and the balloon at Huron was reported to be below that at 40,000 feet. The P-51D listed a ceiling of 42,000 feet.
There are jets with “cannons” but frankly, they need to do a close flyby and release chaff and countermeasures. That would probably do more to bring them down safely than anything else.
a fabric high-altitude weather or surveillance balloon isn’t going to be fazed by cannon rounds,they just make small holes,don’t detonate because they don’t hit anything substantial. these balloons have a huge volume of gas inside.
You are mistaken, the opposite is the problem. They would go in one side and out the other. And those cannon are not small caliber like the .30 cals. They are almost twice as big as a 50 cal. The decompression would be very quick and the balloon would fall very fast, destroying the instrumentation. We need a high altitude aircraft capable of slow speed, the C-130 works very well for this at low altitudes. A hook is put on a cable running out of the cargo bay and fed out the rear cargo doors. The hook grabs a balloon and pulls it into the C-130.
But the C-130s useful ceiling is only a little over 40,000 ft. Making a high altitude balloon-capture-capable aircraft is definitely possible, maybe using an existing aircraft with modifications. I was surprised that such a thing doesn’t already exist.
In one forum, I warned that if Biden didn’t order that big Chinese balloon captured, maybe Elon Musk would jump in and grab it.
Yes, but look at the transcripts from the f-16s. They were too fast to ever get a good look at the balloon. And because of balloon was very small, they couldn’t see it from far away, so they couldn’t make a good gun run at it. I just read that a little while ago, and was relieved that it explained why nobody had used their guns on these things.
considering that 2 Canadian CF-18s put 1000 rounds of 20mm into a smaller errant weather balloon a few years ago,along with several 2.75 inch rockets,and it kept flying for 6 more days,crossed the Atlantic and landed in Finland,the .50 BMG rounds from a Mustang would be even less effective.
I am going to have to look that up, I suspect they missed. Read the transcripts of the f-16s trying to zero in on that balloon over Lake Huron. The conversation made it obvious why they didn’t use their Cannon. They couldn’t see it from far away, and couldn’t turn fast enough to put their guns on it when they finally did see it. They had to take advantage when they got a radar lock on it for the missile. It may have belonged to some Balloon Club in Illinois, although I haven’t heard if the Goodyear Blimp made it to the Super Bowl last Sunday either.
No. It can’t reach the altitude some of these get to. But we could easily adapt something that could – looking at the transcripts from the F-16 pilots, it looks like something that was a lot slower would be better at intercepting balloons and getting a look at them. But the altitude requirement makes World War II era prop jobs ineligible. We also need a transport plane that does what the C-130 does at lower altitudes, capture a balloon by using a hook on a cable at the rear of the aircraft. The C-130s actually reel those in. But we could instead just drag it along until you reach someplace where it is completely safe to drop it. When Trump is back in office, maybe he could have Mike Lindell build the world’s biggest my pillow so we don’t crack any of the instrumentation. And that is not really a joke.
These are probably objects flown out of the Chinese balloon
the mother ship and the brother ships
Maybe a launching platform for drones?
We may have to ask Ukraine if we can have some of those weapons back. Maybe it was a bit hasty sending so many to Ukraine when China is looking for a fight!
Glenn Reynolds linked to a fascinating article from two years ago. These objects may be sophisticated balloons and drones launched by a peer nation. Perhaps Russia, sending a message in the wake of the Nordstream sabotage?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos
A drone can’t stay in the air for 24 hours. They have said they monitered the one over Michigan for 24hrs
You are thinking of types like aircraft. If a motor were only used for changing direction or altitude when necessary, fuel could be conserved.
None of it is true!
They know people will believe anything.
Firing missles to bring down balloons seems to be an expensive way to do it.
Yep, $600,000 per AIM 9 missile.
They gotta burn the Ukraine $$ so they have an excuse to pay Raytheon et al more and more…
I was wondering about that myself until I read the transcripts from the F-16 Pilots. They don’t talk about using the guns, but they could never see the balloon from far enough away to make a gun run on it. And every time they did see it they were going past it too fast to even get a good look visually.
Monkey Werx tracks aviation flights (and confirms the Norwegian P8 aircraft in Hersh’s article). I haven’t checked yet, but it might be interesting to see what his flight logs indicate…..
I saw that video but do not trust it. It is impossible that there was only one flight over that part of Europe even at 3:00 in the morning or whatever it was. And they are telling you that because the aircraft’s transponder was off, it could not be tracked, even while they are tracking it. The screen we saw can be done by numerous games.
So the CCP continues to send up balloons and Kanada allows the balloons to traverse Kanada. Then the USofA has to shoot down the balloon whilst it is still over Kanada. What? Should not Kanada shot down the UFO before it reaches land? Or has the CCP gathered all the intel it needed with the first baloon and they have given their puppet, the interloper, the okay to shoot down the following baloons. Good grief we are so doomed.
Karine Jean-Pierre says it’s “Canadia.”
Wonder how long it will be before that becomes the common pronunciation?
Total distraction! Remember the commie regime was just outed for blowing up the Russian pipeline! I beleive they DID do that! So how about an alien invasion to get the people’s focus off the liars in DC and onto something else. If it really IS aliens, then maybe they have come to save us from the ones that are destroying our country. I’ll take them over the DC rats!
May 2021
The military has been testing high-altitude balloons that are steerable and can remain aloft for long periods while carrying cutting-edge payloads.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40638/what-we-know-about-the-high-tech-balloons-lingering-off-the-coasts-of-the-u-s-recently
We’ll probably have a spate of U.S. balloons getting shot down by our jets to make old Pedo Joe look like a tough guy, because he was so indecisive and weak with the actual threat two weeks ago.
“Whooohoo! This distraction works GREAT and could even boost our approval ratings! Let’s keep doing this! I just hope they don’t start asking why I keep taking money from China….”
I doubt Biden has gotten any ratings Boost lately. Everyone except the total nuts realizes these little ones were private balloons, and shooting them down doesn’t prove anything except again, that Biden doesn’t like private Enterprise.
Following it not an option. Capturing it not an option. Disabling it not an option. Nope. Only option is Destroy it. Why?
They can tell us whatever fairytale they wish when no evidence is available. Do we know whether they exist or not?
The three little ones shot down don’t matter they were private. The first big Chinese balloon could not be captured through most of its trip because it was flying over the altitude reachable by the C-130, which is what we use for capturing balloons.
I was surprised that we do not have some specialized high altitude aircraft for that kind of mission. But it appears we do not.
On the other hand, I also think Biden would need permission from Beijing to shoot it down. He was probably waiting for Miley to get back to him.
I believe those balloons are high enough that we should also see Hunter somewhere there.
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can the balloons be look damn balloons are squirrels?
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Ohio disaster was another squirrel as well, to divert attention from the pipeline and the hearings.
But in this case it’s more like a squirrel mutated on nuclear waste to city-size.
Far too many industrial accidents in the Xiden Regime, dontcha think?
IIRC,they said that this UFO had lines trailing from it,but no payload under it,so it’s likely the air vehicle already dropped it’s payload somewhere. Maybe it dropped a few 100 lbs of fentanyl into Lake Michigan or elsewhere. or ricin.
Possible, but they could also just be the tether lines holding it to the ground until it was released.
I think classifying one of the incidents as a dogfight might be stretching things just a bit.
I saw that as a valuable element of humor. By the way, the very first aerial dog fights were against observation balloons in WW1.