PIZZA.BAT posted:

Nuts and Gum posted:

I saw on Twitter apparently norad left an old excel filter on that excluded anything under the size of small aircraft and recently deleted said filter and now all this random poo poo they should have been tracking the entire time shows up.

Reset your filters every month at least and recalibrate you brainiacs!!

PIZZA.BAT posted:

The Grey posted:

They missed the balloon over Lake Huron on the first try, but said the "middle landed safely in the water".

I don't really like the idea of the Great Lakes filling up with unexploded missiles.

Uncle Lloyd posted:

It's probably fine, Germany is filled with unexploded WWII ordnance after all and they don't seem to go around blowing themselves up. I expect the fish can survive swimming around a single missile.

Rad-daddio posted:

Also, aren't there a couple of nukes submerged off the east coast?

Mulaney Power Move posted:

Most UFOs are actually USOs that have surfaced. They're down there on the seafloor. Doing something with them methane clathrate beds. Those start to melt and everything warms up. Trying to do some kind of climate change. God drat space orbs.

Piss Creep posted:

I think it is something kind of like this. They got yelled at for the balloon mess, they have expanded what they track, things they may not have previously, and are paranoid of missing something now and are blowing away peoples research equipment.

Piss Creep posted:

Lol

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1626370846141841409

Vernii posted:

This is like the least believable part of this whole story. Besides the fact that these HAM radio balloons are spherical and only three feet diameter vs USAF shooting down two car-sized cylinders and an octagon, there's no way the US had a multi-agency investigation, massive debris search, and classified briefing to the whole Senate over a loving hobby balloon.

Vernii posted:

This is like the least believable part of this whole story. Besides the fact that these HAM radio balloons are spherical and only three feet diameter vs USAF shooting down two car-sized cylinders and an octagon, there's no way the US had a multi-agency investigation, massive debris search, and classified briefing to the whole Senate over a loving hobby balloon.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

all of this is just the start of how the US is going to ease the public into accepting some of the new tech they're going to unveil soon. Tech that they've had for a long time, they just couldn't show it off yet.

Don't listen to the mainstream news media. You have to dig a little deeper. Read about Dulce, New Mexico, not Area 51.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

Don't listen to the mainstream news media. You have to dig a little deeper. Read about Dulce, New Mexico, not Area 51.

Flowers for QAnon posted:

Some real weird poo poo happened in those tunnels

Flowers for QAnon posted:

Some real weird poo poo happened in those tunnels

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U.S. ends its search for remnants of aerial objects shot down over Alaskan airspace and Lake Huron

U.S. Northern Command said Friday it recommended an end to the search for debris from two objects shot down in United States airspace this month.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin backed the recommendation, the command said in a statement. The end of recovery efforts could mean the country may never know what, exactly, the objects were, how they were propelled, and where they came from.

The conclusion applies to airborne objects shot down by U.S. fighter jets Feb. 10 near Deadhorse, Alaska, and Feb. 12 over Lake Huron, off the coast of Michigan.

"The U.S. military, federal agencies, and Canadian partners conducted systematic searches of each area using a variety of capabilities, including airborne imagery and sensors, surface sensors and inspections, and subsurface scans, and did not locate debris," the command said.

Efforts in Deadhorse were hampered by Arctic conditions and sea ice instability, it said.

The recommendation does not cover the Feb. 4 takedown of what the United States has described as a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.

Military officials said recovery efforts in the Atlantic, which ended Thursday, were successful, and recovered items were taken to an FBI lab "for counterintelligence exploitation," according to the statement Friday.

Airspace and maritime limits around all three recovery operations have been lifted, the command said.

One other incident involving the takedown of an airborne object took place in Canadian airspace Feb. 11 and is the purview of Canadian authorities.

The Biden administration announced Monday it was forming an interagency group to address the recent cluster and future unidentified objects.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks about the objects Thursday, downplaying the possibility that the non-balloon objects shot down might also be tied to surveillance efforts.

"We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program, or they were surveillance vehicles from other any other country," Biden said in public remarks.

Mulaney Power Move posted:

The chemical train derailing company said it would be fine

naem posted:

Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

have they figured out what the UFOs were, (are?), yet?