Saturday, February 11, 2023

Here we go








UPDATE 02/12/2023:  


A US F-22 fighter plane with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which protects Canadian and American airspace, shot down the object over Yukon, Canada.

Trudeau said that he had spoken with the US president, Joe Biden, on Saturday afternoon and that Canadian forces will recover and analyse the object.

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"The object." I see we're steering clear of UFO.
Fighter jets have now shot down three objects in the airspace above the US and Canada in the last week.

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Canadian defence minister Anita Anand declined to speculate about the origin of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape.
Ooooh. Very alien spaceshipish.
She stopped short of describing it as a balloon but said it was smaller than the Chinese balloon shot down off South Carolina’s coast a week ago, but similar in appearance. She said it was flying at 40,000 feet and posed a risk to civilian air traffic when it was shot down at 3.41am local time (2041 GMT).

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Hours later, airspace over the western US state of Montana was temporarily closed Saturday evening after a “radar anomaly” was detected but no object was found by fighter aircraft dispatched to investigate, NORAD said.

The downing of the latest object over Canada comes just over 24 hours after the US military took down another airborne object that was in Alaskan airspace. An American F-22 fighter jet shot down the high-altitude object off Deadhorse, Alaska, along the northern coast of the state, on Friday afternoon. Officials said the object entered US airspace but was heading toward the north pole at 20 to 40 mph.

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At a White House press briefing on Friday afternoon, national security council spokesperson John Kirby described the object as being the size of a small car and said it was flying at an altitude of 45,000 ft, the level of a commercial plane.
Is Tesla testing flying cars now?
“Arctic weather conditions, including wind chill, snow and limited daylight are a factor in this operation, and personnel will adjust recovery operations to maintain safety. Recovery activities are occurring on sea ice,” the statement said. “We have no further details at this time about the object, including its capabilities, purpose or origin.”

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