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Yeah, this HN headline might be based on a game of telephone from this quote (from [0]): > "We’re calling them objects for a reason. Certainly, the event off t
by johntb86 4y ago
Yeah, this HN headline might be based on a game of telephone from this quote (from [0]):
> "We’re calling them objects for a reason. Certainly, the event off the South Carolina coast for the Chinese spy balloon, that was clearly a balloon," he said. "These are objects. I am not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure, or it could be some type of a propulsion system. But clearly they’re able to stay aloft."
[0]: https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-heightened-alert-increasing-scrutiny-airspace-downing-unidentified-object-lake-huron https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-heightened-alert-increasing-sc...
- vba616 4y agoDoes anyone track all the legit weather balloons? I feel like pretty soon now someone is going to realize there are hundreds or thousands of innocuous civilian owned objects that the Pentagon doesn't have real-time knowledge of and shooting them down willy-nilly is going to make for a big brouhaha.