Tuesday, February 14, 2023

What Was It?

 The F-16 pilot who took down the object over Lake Huron says he wouldn't call it a balloon.  According to t the Daily Mail.

'I wouldn’t really call it a balloon': Cockpit audio reveals F-16 pilots who shot down octagon shaped object over Lake Huron did NOT know what it was - as Pentagon says $400k Sidewinder missile that missed target landed 'harmlessly' in water..

 I don't know why they haven't come out with the gun camera footage.  That might answer a lot of the public's questions.  This administration doesn't want to answer questions.  Transparency means nothing to them.

8 comments:

Termite said...

Romania and Moldova just went after a couple of unidentified "balloon-like" objects in their airspace.

juvat said...

PP,
Why they won't publish the film footage. Depending on acquisition and weapon locking requirements, there could be a lot of classified information on them.

Xoph said...

Best explanation that I've heard is China is testing our radar coverage as they do all the time. Rather than reveal what we know, we don't react. The balloon was seen by a Civilian with the naked eye and it became a political football. I'm not sure why we have had to shoot down the last 3 in short order.

Based on the above scenario then if this was routine, we should have just said "Yep, weather balloon" and let it go. We didn't. Why would China need to test our radar coverage for the continental 48? What info can balloons collect that they can not get by other means (Humint).

US Bio labs in the Ukraine were supposedly testing spread of viruses via migrating birds. I believe high altitude dispersion of viruses (viri?) and other biologics would be poor due to the dispersion and due to UV at high altitude having a sterilizing effect.

I would suspect we've done fly bys on these things (if routine) and have a decent idea of the purpose of the payload. Not sure what is going on. We are all mushrooms.

Mike-SMO said...

I'd bet that if they went up wind from the Yukon and Lake Hunon, they'd discover a lot of empty beer cans. The pop-ups aren't Chinese. Look for the beer cans. Mm

Anonymous said...

What was it? A distraction....

Anonymous said...

This regime has made it clear they don't care about the people and very few if any morals, which isn't surprising given the controversy over their taking power.
If they really were elected properly, why have they fought so hard to hide the data?

Steve said...

No video. Lots of video regarding that "real" chinesiam balloon. But now no video...HM!??!?!

Anonymous said...

If you believe in a Good and Righteousness G_d prepare.
Because the evil of this world
Is about to kick it into high gear.