An unidentified object was shot down 10 miles off the frozen coast of Alaska on Friday afternoon, US officials announced, but details about the object

Pineapple Smurf said:
I always ask why do the aliens always only visit America?
What about us down here?
Unfair
The aliens always attack America - Meme by Peebee :) Memedroid
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The_Librarian said:
UFO's most probably was spy barroonsballoons, but nobody want to admit to that they popped a couple of these with $400 000 missiles.

Better to say "we downed an UFO" than "we popped a cherryballoon"...
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The first two balloons are Chinese balloons (North America/South America), most likely ‘dual-purpose’ balloons. Essentially, both civilian research and military data collection. Object 2, 3 and 4 (UFOs) are all likely civilian balloons, possibly DoD (but that would be classified). Object 4 fits the description of a heliotrope which was possibly cut from its tether, so I guess it is either launched from some institute or is hobbyist. Hobbyists float stations in the US. Object 2 and 3 in Alaska I am leaning towards exploration balloons, could also be heliotropes, but I am in the view that those balloons were used to analyse the Arctic circle, so it could be any party, including foreign, interested in exploiting the Arctic circle of which there are many such companies in Alaska, and China, and Russia, and Europe. If these balloons aren’t licensed or registered and are a risk for aviation activities then the US has a right to eliminate them when it is within their domain, whatever its purpose.

From reading on Twitter, it seems that many in the US sending balloons don’t register them with the FAA, and many of the hobbyist balloons are unlicensed for their class, in particular Class A. I do expect the US to clamp down on this now, otherwise people will go bonkers with anything they find as unknown in the sky. The last thing the USA want is for their population to think that their airspace is compromised.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
The first two balloons are Chinese balloons (North America/South America), most likely ‘dual-purpose’ balloons. Essentially, both civilian research and military data collection. Object 2, 3 and 4 (UFOs) are all likely civilian balloons, possibly DoD (but that would be classified). Object 4 fits the description of a heliotrope which was possibly cut from its tether, so I guess it is either launched from some institute or is hobbyist. Hobbyists float stations in the US. Object 2 and 3 in Alaska I am leaning towards exploration balloons, could also be heliotropes, but I am in the view that those balloons were used to analyse the Arctic circle, so it could be any party, including foreign, interested in exploiting the Arctic circle of which there are many such companies in Alaska, and China, and Russia, and Europe. If these balloons aren’t licensed or registered and are a risk for aviation activities then the US has a right to eliminate them when it is within their domain, whatever its purpose.

From reading on Twitter, it seems that many in the US sending balloons don’t register them with the FAA, and many of the hobbyist balloons are unlicensed for their class, in particular Class A. I do expect the US to clamp down on this now, otherwise people will go bonkers with anything they find as unknown in the sky. The last thing the USA want is for their population to think that their airspace is compromised.
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Your post do make the most sense, and it is most probably what's happening here.

Everybody's got itchy trigger fingers these days.
 
Moosedrool said:
Why do people immediately associate the phrase UFO with alien spacecraft?

If you know it's a alien spacecraft it's not a real UFO, it's an alien spacecraft.
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I think its just you.

I kid.

I think most of the chaos is that they are just calling everything a Chinese spycraft and this may not be the case.
There is definitely a bit of hysteria here (perhaps just media speculation) but something is wrong.

There are two distinct things happening here and I think that one is causing action on the other.
There have been documented UFO's for years, we don't know what they are but as military tech has gotten better, they have tracked them better.
These could be Aliens or unknown tech from a hostile state or even a private entity. (This is the cylinder they talk about)
Then there are the balloons, these could also be from a hostile state and also be a private entity who is doing unauthorized flights, this is not alien tech by any means.

Then the US shot one of these balloons down because it was unauthorized and in their airspace, which is 100% legitimate.
Most likely this would not have happened in the past but it was on Twitter and there are currently issues with China... so its just the situation.
Then it escalated because there was another balloon.... so it became a pattern. In the middle of all of this hyper attention they tracked a UFO, which is something they see all the time, and they decided to shoot it down. So now they shoot them down.

I think at some point a logical explanation will come up and it will go back to normal. For the moment its just going to be hysteric.
This will be fuel for conspiracy theories for generations to come.
 
www.bbc.com

China spy balloon: Three unidentified objects possibly benign, says US

The White House says the aircraft may have been "tied to commercial or research entities".
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China spy balloon: Three unidentified objects possibly benign, says US​

The White House has said there is no indication three flying objects blasted out of the sky over the weekend by the US military are linked to alleged Chinese spying.

The objects may be "tied to commercial or research entities and therefore benign", spokesman John Kirby said.
US and Canadian officials have not yet located or recovered any wreckage from the three downed aircraft.
Beijing earlier accused the US of "a trigger-happy overreaction".

China has denied one of its balloons, which was destroyed by a US fighter jet earlier this month off South Carolina, was being used for espionage, saying it was merely a weather-monitoring airship that had blown off course.

At Tuesday's daily news conference, Mr Kirby said it will be difficult to determine the purpose or origin of the three other objects that were destroyed over Alaska, Canada and Michigan until the debris is found and analysed.

"We haven't seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the PRC's [People's Republic of China] spying programme," the White House National Security Council told reporters, "or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts".

A "leading explanation" being considered by US intelligence, he added, was that "these could be balloons that were simply tied to commercial or research entities and therefore benign".

But he noted that no company, organisation or government had yet laid claim to the objects.
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I doubt any company or organisation would lay claim, never mind the government when it could be DoD related or otherwise. In the case these UFOs aren't licensed or registered, it will be punitive.

USA Today has more quotes,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...jects-shot-down-classified-china/11251562002/

Senators briefed on the incidents Tuesday said the threat level from the unidentified objects is low.

But Republicans say the American people need to hear that from President Joe Biden.

"I mean, my phone is ringing off the wall, and we've got a president of the United States that's not saying anything," Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said after the briefing. "Get out there and tell the people we're in good shape, we know what's going on, and let's go on with life."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Biden administration is being "very careful and very thoughtful." Some of the information can't be made public because it is classified or "on the edge of classified, and it's difficult," he said.

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Idaho Sen. James Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said at least one of the three objects had a payload.

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley said they didn't learn much in the briefing.

"I get the feeling they don't really know what in the world is going on," Hawley said.
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Hot air, indeed.
 
Apparently the last one over Canada was a canadian weather instrument, but the neat thing is that it was only about 82cm in length, which shows the accuracy of their radar systems (and the ability to hit it with a missile).
 
They gonna start blaming Terrorist/domestic attacks on Aliens now, watch.
 
Identified now.

Was the amateur radio pico class balloon K9YO-15 - a WSPR telemetry device.

No FAA approval needed for < 4lbs weight.

So, the Canadians USians spent 400k on a missile to shoot it down. ****wits hahaha


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February 14th, 2023, K9YO, Missing in Action, KD9UQB, 7th Circumnavigation.

Pico Balloon K9YO last reported on February 11th at 00:48 zulu near Hagemeister Island after 123 days and 18 hours of flight. Hagemeister Island is an uninhabited island in the U.S. state of Alaska…
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The US Air Force may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

Since the famous takedown of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, US jets have shot down a total of three more unidentified balloon objects, now suspected by officials to be 'commercial or benign'. There is speculation that at least one these three objects may have been an amateur radio 'pico'...
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