A hobby group may have the answer to what the U.S. shot down over Canada last week

[Zsari]

A hobby group may have the answer to what the U.S. shot down over Canada last week​

By MATT BERG and LEE HUDSON
02/16/2023 07:03 PM EST

President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. still doesn’t know what it shot down in the skies over North America last weekend, when Air Force fighter jets took out three car-sized objects flying over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron.
He did, however, say they were “most likely balloons.” And as it turns out, there’s a group of hobbyists in Illinois that says one of its balloons is missing.

The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, in a blog post that was first reported by Aviation Week, says one of its balloons went “missing in action” in the same region the U.S. military shot down one of the three unknown objects.


On Tuesday, the group said one of its balloons was last spotted at 12:48 a.m. on Saturday along an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska. That tracks with when a U.S. F-22 used a Sidewinder missile to shoot down an object over the Yukon later that same day. Canadian officials have since said the debris will be extremely difficult to retrieve due to the frozen terrain and the remoteness of the site.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/16/mystery-object-balloon-illinois-biden-00083355

 

[Riz]

A hobby group may have the answer to what the U.S. shot down over Canada last week​

By MATT BERG and LEE HUDSON
02/16/2023 07:03 PM EST

President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. still doesn’t know what it shot down in the skies over North America last weekend, when Air Force fighter jets took out three car-sized objects flying over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron.
He did, however, say they were “most likely balloons.” And as it turns out, there’s a group of hobbyists in Illinois that says one of its balloons is missing.

The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, in a blog post that was first reported by Aviation Week, says one of its balloons went “missing in action” in the same region the U.S. military shot down one of the three unknown objects.


On Tuesday, the group said one of its balloons was last spotted at 12:48 a.m. on Saturday along an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska. That tracks with when a U.S. F-22 used a Sidewinder missile to shoot down an object over the Yukon later that same day. Canadian officials have since said the debris will be extremely difficult to retrieve due to the frozen terrain and the remoteness of the site.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/16/mystery-object-balloon-illinois-biden-00083355

 

[hirobo2]

Com'on guys US way smarter than that. They just putting an act to make themselves look dumb. They were looking for one of their own balloons to shoot down so they can say (in private) to China: We shoot all kinds of balloons not just yours to absove all responsiblities!

IMO US just walked into China's trap. After announced latest arms sales to Taiwan, China was gonna finnally add some companies to her unreliable entities list that had been in the making for a few years. The problem then becomes the right condition and timing to make it public. The balloon incidence is the facilitator...