Have others noticed how the media are avoiding saying that the Unidentified Objects Flying over North America and Canada as against Unidentified Flying Objects over North America and Canada? Perhaps they have been instructed so. They are described as the size of a small car and fighters have gone close enough to discern that they are unmanned. I take it they are drones of some kind. Russia, China or North Korea must be in the frame for these I would imagine. The Chinese "weather" balloons were at 120,000 feet but these are flying at 40,000 feet, inside the common cruising altitude for most commercial aeroplanes of between 33,000 and 42,000 feet. I wonder if "we" will ever find out what they really are. ET Go home.
I think the whole thing is total non-news. If anything, it's just Russia or China playing mind games. Russia has form for that. Sputnik 1 was great. It properly freaked the Americans out. All it did was transmit a beeping sound every time it passed over America, but the Americans had no idea why, like it was some sort of timer ticking down ready to do something. I doubt it's all one sided either. I highly doubt that the Americans have never flown anything unauthorised over Russia or China. I think it's just business as usual, but hyped up because it serves the current narrative very well.
Question---has a white balloon flown over the UK etc yet? If not wonder why they chose USA and Canada first?
The first balloon story caused the US stock market to drop a bit. I guess because worsening relationship with China caused concern about supply chain disruption. As share prices across the developed world tend to closely follow US trends, upsetting the American markets is a good way to upset global developed world markets. A cynic might wonder if certain wealthy individuals and organisations might capitalise on this by purchasing shares while the prices are down due to the panic, knowing they'll quickly go back up again when folks realise that nothing has fundamentally changed.
Balloons travel West to East with the Jetstreams so any balloon launched East of the UK has to pass over the US before it reaches us, and they keep shooting them down! Whatever these new "things" are, seemingly they are cylindrical in shape. And as for the US flying things over Russia - Gary Powers was shot down over Russia in 1960 while flying his Lockheed U2 spy plane over the Urals.
Probably flew a few SR71s over there as well in the past. As the balloon was Chinese I'm guessing this latest object was Chinese as well, if it was Chinese. The real issue has to be Why, nobody has to do this kind of thing as satellites do all the spying that is necessary these days. Unless its a country that doesn't have access to satellites, or maybe its just a test of air space and to see if anything can get through the radar.
The charts don't seem to show that. The biggest recent drop in the S&P500 happened because Google dropped a clanger, showing their flagship AI product, ChatGPT, claiming that the JWST was the first telescope to identify a planet outside our solar system. Nervous investors panicked and pulled their money out of Google, dropping it's total value by 86 billion dollars in a matter of hours.
I see that the latest word is the US believes that the flying objects shot down over North American airspace on Friday and Saturday were balloons, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Tosh, they are covering up: they are obviously from Mars, the Martians have got fed up with us landing things on Mars and decided to retaliate.
I saw a UFO many years ago. I was walking to my then fiances house one winter's night when this bright light shot from horizon to horizon. The following weekend I was sitting up late and "Sky At Night" came on (only four channels back then). Patrick Moore started by asking for information about a bright light that had crossed the sky and was seen down by Newcastle, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He asked for people who saw it to write in with time, direction and any other information they could give. I never bothered!
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border. That makes 4.
The US military is unsure what three flying objects it shot out of the skies over North America were - and how they were able to stay aloft. A military commander said it could be "some type of a propulsion system". I've stopped learning Gaelic and started learning Klingon.
