High-altitude object shot down over Alaska, US says

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Speaking at the White House on Friday, Mr Kirby explained that the object over Alaska was travelling at 40,000ft (12,000m) and posed a "reasonable threat" to civilian aircraft.
He said the object had fallen into US waters that are frozen, adding that its debris field was "much, much smaller" than the balloon shot down last week off the coast of South Carolina.



The size of a small car, the object was first detected Thursday night. Few other details have emerged about its origins and purpose.
 
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China is bullying us the exact same way they're bullying Japan and South Korea. And they get away with it because the entire planet relies on their slave labor to build cheap products that they sell for grotesque amounts of profit.
 
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I'm not so sure I buy "recalibrating radars".

I think they've known about them all along and simply haven't bothered with them. But once the GOP and Fox News started giving them shit about it, they start getting blown out of the sky.

We've known about them for years and done nothing. Several flew over on Trump's watch and they did nothing. You can't write that off to "recalibrating radar".
 
Yes they told us three balloons during trump. I guessing there were more then three. I mean just this year there's already been at least three over North America that have been shot down.
 

“What we can’t answer now is, is this bigger aperture picking up lots of stuff that has essentially been forgiven, around in the skies, because it didn’t pose a threat, or is it part of something organized for whatever surveillance?”

This is exactly what I meant. Slow moving, semi-nebulous objects are most likely erased from the operator display by computer algorithm since they don't fit a missile or aircraft operating envelope (shit they may even have had multiple unknown problems before and added shit to erase this in the program).

Let's be honest Mathias Rust flew to fucking Moscow in a Piper aircraft because the radars ignored his 'slow', 'small' presence.
 
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The comments mark the first time China has accused the US of sending balloons over its territory since the American military downed a Chinese machine earlier this month it said was used for surveillance. China had previously said its balloon was designed to research the weather and had inadvertently flown off course.

When you have no other excuses go DARVO! (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender)
 
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