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"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, an

"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes" "Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-alaska-military-latest/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-... "It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-high-altitude-object-alaska-white-house/story?id=97040022 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-high-altitude-obje... "Defense Department official said it broke into pieces" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/unidentified-object-shot-down-alaska.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/unidentified-... That sounds vaguely similar to the one purportedly shot down over Russia last month: "Vasily Golubev, the governor of Rostov oblast, wrote on Telegram that a "small-size object in the shape of a ball" had been discovered flying "in the wind" at an altitude of around one and a half miles on January 3." Any connection to the spherical metallic ball UFO caught over Iraq by U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in 2016? https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/possible-ufo-caught-on-camera-flying-over-iraqi-city-of-mosul-in-2016/ https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/possible-ufo-caught-on-camera-... 2014 Chilean Navy UFO looks pretty similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI&ab_channel=FoxNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI&ab_channel=FoxNe... As does the U.S. Navy footage of a UFO caught off the coast of San Diego in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-6jRrbtuI&ab_channel=TODAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-6jRrbtuI&ab_channel=TODAY Another similar looking metallic sphere UFO caught by the U.S. Navy in 2021: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/K5ohaoh2ayfECjmuxtczQJ-970-80.png.webp https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/K5ohaoh2ayfECjmuxtczQJ-970...

Waterluvian 4y ago
Is it just me or does this sound unremarkable? If we take one question mark from each event, we can construct a very spooky narrative. But none of the question marks, on their own, seem all that peculiar.
- graderjs 4y ago
  HN vibe when ET life is finally acknowledged by government: “ is it just me or does this sound unremarkable? I mean think about it the universe is so big. We’ve always welcomed open minded scientific inquiry on this forum, I don’t think any of us ever seriously doubted we’d eventually find ET life. Why is this on front page? Let’s get back to bickering over the latest shiny tech fad.” Hehe
  - arroz 4y ago
    Lol
  - roenxi 4y ago
    1. It is lowest of the low rhetoric to argue from what a hypothetical exaggerated caricature in a hypothetical situation would say. If you want to upset people then keep doing it, but I advise punching above the belt. 2. We've got a bunch of balloons in the air. Balloons are a technology dating back to before they started keeping records [0]. If it turns out people aren't registering every single balloon flight with every government then that isn't really a surprise. Drones are in the mix now too. 2b. People are going to use balloons to spy on each other. That isn't new. Governments spy on everything all the time. These comments are probably being logged in a super-database somewhere in the NSA, in the GRU and the Chinese Ministry of State Security. While it makes a good story it is not evidence of change unless someone does the legwork to show that it wasn't just a slow news week. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning
    - graderjs 4y ago
      That's like you saying you want to be above everyone else and be the "highest of the high", and while trying to upset people with this (or obliviously thinking you "won't" because it must be your "natural place above everyone" and they'll just accept and worship you for it, haha...how ridiculous!), you try to chastise other's for wanting to upset people. This is the same pathology where someone who needs to dominate, but doesn't know how to achieve, has to invent and fabricate "wrongs" everywhere so they can "legitimize" going after people and trying abusing them. Hahah, the very punching above the belt that you advise, is something you would never do, because you'd lose. So you have to "skew the field" and do the very same "hypothetical exaggerated caricature" (really...not just a caricature? an exaggerated caricatured? are you sure?) that you try to blame someone else doing, is what you do!!! Hahaha. Ridiculous. Anyway your point is invalid. The situation I described is exactly the HN vibe you see. Hypocritical, lacking in self awareness, desperate to be seen as smart...well, hey...whaddayouknow...exactly like what you've displayed here. Hmmm, not a caricature at all (tho I admit it was satirical) and also not intended at everyone! Totes makes sense now that the person most wounded by that satire and thus prompted to reply would be the person most likely to demonstrate the very same! Thank you for revealing yourself! :) ;P xx ;p All your other points are valid but uninteresting, they don't disprove anything. But yeah...this whole thing seems like a distraction for the current tumult. There's 1000s of other cases if you're interested in something real...but you're probably not, but second I'm guessing maybe you are into this (maybe you're just too scared to admit it in public?)...anyway whatevs...this thing's probably a distraction. Well except for your comments, they just revealed you. But, yeah, the balloon thing: probably a distraction.
awestley 4y ago
Sounds like a shiny balloon to me.
- dumbaccount123 4y ago
  Funny, they confirmed it was unmanned but they refuse to confirm whether its a balloon. Bit weird don't you think?
  - zamadatix 4y ago
    Doesn't strike me as weird at all. Saying you shot some unidentified unmanned stuff out of the sky sends a much different message than saying you possibly shot an unidentified someone out of the sky. Not wanting to disclose what it was isn't the same as being fine with any interpretation of what was done.
  - cronix 4y ago
    "well, technically we recovered an alien so it was 'unmanned' because there were no men onboard"...some defense department lawyer
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
  - pratheekrebala 4y ago
    Balloons are treated differently under the Chicago convention. There’s a little bit more leeway for balloons when it comes to overflights on sovereign territory.
- kakapo88 4y ago
  It seems the aliens are invading by balloon. No one saw that coming.
  - yazzku 4y ago
    They are applying for US visas. Nonresident alien.
TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
Sounds like an MKV to me. Could be in response to the ICBM.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago
  https://youtu.be/RnofCyaWhI0 https://youtu.be/RnofCyaWhI0
partiallypro 4y ago
Related https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...
jimbo9991 4y ago
Lmao "seemed to be floating".
RajT88 4y ago
Before we jump to alien spacecraft, the US Government was quite forthcoming about this even, so let's see what they say when they gather up all the wreckage and analyze it. We're rolling into an election season, and the minority party loves conspiracies. I have a good feeling that information will be shared shortly about what they shot down.

Waterluvian 4y ago

Is it just me or does this sound unremarkable? If we take one question mark from each event, we can construct a very spooky narrative. But none of the question marks, on their own, seem all that peculiar.

graderjs 4y ago
HN vibe when ET life is finally acknowledged by government: “ is it just me or does this sound unremarkable? I mean think about it the universe is so big. We’ve always welcomed open minded scientific inquiry on this forum, I don’t think any of us ever seriously doubted we’d eventually find ET life. Why is this on front page? Let’s get back to bickering over the latest shiny tech fad.” Hehe
- arroz 4y ago
  Lol
- roenxi 4y ago
  1. It is lowest of the low rhetoric to argue from what a hypothetical exaggerated caricature in a hypothetical situation would say. If you want to upset people then keep doing it, but I advise punching above the belt. 2. We've got a bunch of balloons in the air. Balloons are a technology dating back to before they started keeping records [0]. If it turns out people aren't registering every single balloon flight with every government then that isn't really a surprise. Drones are in the mix now too. 2b. People are going to use balloons to spy on each other. That isn't new. Governments spy on everything all the time. These comments are probably being logged in a super-database somewhere in the NSA, in the GRU and the Chinese Ministry of State Security. While it makes a good story it is not evidence of change unless someone does the legwork to show that it wasn't just a slow news week. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning
  - graderjs 4y ago
    That's like you saying you want to be above everyone else and be the "highest of the high", and while trying to upset people with this (or obliviously thinking you "won't" because it must be your "natural place above everyone" and they'll just accept and worship you for it, haha...how ridiculous!), you try to chastise other's for wanting to upset people. This is the same pathology where someone who needs to dominate, but doesn't know how to achieve, has to invent and fabricate "wrongs" everywhere so they can "legitimize" going after people and trying abusing them. Hahah, the very punching above the belt that you advise, is something you would never do, because you'd lose. So you have to "skew the field" and do the very same "hypothetical exaggerated caricature" (really...not just a caricature? an exaggerated caricatured? are you sure?) that you try to blame someone else doing, is what you do!!! Hahaha. Ridiculous. Anyway your point is invalid. The situation I described is exactly the HN vibe you see. Hypocritical, lacking in self awareness, desperate to be seen as smart...well, hey...whaddayouknow...exactly like what you've displayed here. Hmmm, not a caricature at all (tho I admit it was satirical) and also not intended at everyone! Totes makes sense now that the person most wounded by that satire and thus prompted to reply would be the person most likely to demonstrate the very same! Thank you for revealing yourself! :) ;P xx ;p All your other points are valid but uninteresting, they don't disprove anything. But yeah...this whole thing seems like a distraction for the current tumult. There's 1000s of other cases if you're interested in something real...but you're probably not, but second I'm guessing maybe you are into this (maybe you're just too scared to admit it in public?)...anyway whatevs...this thing's probably a distraction. Well except for your comments, they just revealed you. But, yeah, the balloon thing: probably a distraction.

awestley 4y ago

Sounds like a shiny balloon to me.

dumbaccount123 4y ago
Funny, they confirmed it was unmanned but they refuse to confirm whether its a balloon. Bit weird don't you think?
- zamadatix 4y ago
  Doesn't strike me as weird at all. Saying you shot some unidentified unmanned stuff out of the sky sends a much different message than saying you possibly shot an unidentified someone out of the sky. Not wanting to disclose what it was isn't the same as being fine with any interpretation of what was done.
- cronix 4y ago
  "well, technically we recovered an alien so it was 'unmanned' because there were no men onboard"...some defense department lawyer
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
- pratheekrebala 4y ago
  Balloons are treated differently under the Chicago convention. There’s a little bit more leeway for balloons when it comes to overflights on sovereign territory.
kakapo88 4y ago
It seems the aliens are invading by balloon. No one saw that coming.
- yazzku 4y ago
  They are applying for US visas. Nonresident alien.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago

Sounds like an MKV to me. Could be in response to the ICBM.

zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago
https://youtu.be/RnofCyaWhI0 https://youtu.be/RnofCyaWhI0

partiallypro 4y ago

Related https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...

jimbo9991 4y ago

Lmao "seemed to be floating".

RajT88 4y ago

Before we jump to alien spacecraft, the US Government was quite forthcoming about this even, so let's see what they say when they gather up all the wreckage and analyze it. We're rolling into an election season, and the minority party loves conspiracies. I have a good feeling that information will be shared shortly about what they shot down.