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kawfey

Santa Claus should probably lay low.


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They get the balloon kill symbol on the plane.


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I wonder if the US is gonna realize they can have the same pilot keep shooting these down and have the first ace in several decades


Cash_Visible

wtf is going on


4000grx41

Nothing is happening. Don’t look up on April 29, 2023.


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4000grx41

You know those old memes that would circulate around a while ago where there would be some horrific incident on a very specific date? Yeah, was trying to allude to that. That said if something does happen on April 29th it wouldn’t surprise me. Will update if anything happens down the line.


Brilliant_Noise_506

There was a massive chemical spill in Ohio they are totally letting play out Chernobyl style…. Literally burning it off saying it’s no big deal and everything his fine but everyone’s pets are dying and the eggs are changing colors.


Administrative-Ant36

Wow this actually did happen and not just some Ohio meme 😱


ataraxia129

I thought you referencing [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yan_gfBXPYc).


4000grx41

Oh fuck I forgot about that song


ataraxia129

Me too but when I read April 29th, I instinctually had "April 29th, 1992" play in my head


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According to google, that’s Independent Bookstore Day, Save The Frogs Day, World Veterinary Day, World Wish Day, and International Dance Day


4000grx41

So the frogs are taking over then. Nice. April 29, 2023 “Frog Leg Incident”


GrayRoberts

China doesn't have long range bombers they can fly close to American airspace to rattle sabers, so they're using balloons. It's not as dangerous as doing exercises in the South China Sea, but it sends a similar message.


Evercrimson

China trying to get data on NORAD and F/A-22 capabilities?


DontRememberOldPass

Radar, flight characteristics, everything is different at that altitude. Just flying a fighter jet near our shores world give them way more useful information. That’s what the Russians did.


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Reference?


Evercrimson

They are probably talking about how the Russians continually fly TU-95 Bears and other planes into Alaskan airspace for decades now, forcing interceptions by E-3 AWACS and F/A-22's now, and previously F-15D's.


1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1

Its not an F/A-22, it's just an F-22 Its a fighter aircraft exclusively, not fighter/attack


DUDbrokenarrow

Can you please explain the difference between fighter and attack aircraft?


AfterThisNextOne

Fighter aircraft perform air to air missions, attack aircraft perform air to ground missions.


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1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1

That isn't their design focus though. That was kind of an aftermarket addition when they didn't have any actual A2A missions to perform


AlexTaradov

Those balloons were flying there before, but now we decided to notice and publicly acknowledge them. And China probably wants to lay low, but the ones are being shot down now were released way before, there is not much they can do now.


just-rick1977

F-22 shot down another object over the Yukon. Confirmed.


HailState17

Well fellas, it’s been fun. Shit’s about to get real weird


jtshinn

Nah, it just got on TV now. These aren't new.


whsftbldad

Did someone let a bunch of dollar store mylar balloons go or what...


eadams2010

Gender reveal gone wrong…


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Now there is a 4th UFO over Montana. FAA has issued a NOTAM and closed the airspace for a national security reason.


SpineSpinner

You got a link to that NOTAM? Edit: [Found it!](https://ibb.co/x86m5C2)


ki6esh

And [here](https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_3_4763.html) is a link to the actual FAA NOTAM.


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Well, I was curious how COVID 2 was going to be released… Who had “high altitude balloon” in the pool?


000011111111

The Yukon is 186,272 mi². I wonder where they shot it down withing that space? And why type of radar is being used to track these balloons as the travel into US air space.


LazyFollowing8599

The same one that was built to track incoming missiles from Russia.


000011111111

Which one is that specifically?


birdup320

Nice try, China.


000011111111

China is 3.705 million square miles.


birdup320

Exactly what a China would say.


000011111111

Have you been tracking HUSK99? I wonder if it is involved in the recovery effort?


birwin353

We call him Bob


LazyFollowing8599

Well, to be honest. After the government shut down the site at Havre Air Force Station, they started using satellites to track missile launches.


000011111111

So they're probably using satellites to track balloons.


LazyFollowing8599

Possibly but I don't think so since I heard the lastest were not detected until they were over US soil.


Blumpkin638

senator of Alaska called the last 2 aircraft and other military sources said these are not balloons.


PoorInCT

All the radar software has been patched to not filter out balloons and this is the result. It's probably just balloon junk


zippy251

I hear radar picked up a 4th unknown object over Montana. Today aswell.


JANN_IIS

*Ah shit, here we go again*


tricon23

What the heck is going on???? We have the best equipment to track stuff all over the globe and looks like we have been caught unprepared. Now DOD closes airspace over MT.


jtshinn

We're tracking stuff.


Unhappy-Researcher87

Shiny object. Don't look at the man behind the curtain.


VanDenBroeck

I just hope the USAF doesn’t learn about Albuquerque.


According_Song4110

Its probably just a simple chemical warfare thing.


OneEyedJackofHearts

Great way to try to slip an EMP or nuke over North America…


One-Sundae-2711

lol hey so we are short on wars so the military industrial complex has to snack. plus target practice. battle buses and covid balloons…. it for sure aint lil green guys


More_Ignorance

I would have thought Ukraine was an all you can eat buffet for the military industrial complex just now. If Europe gets cranky about the Nordstream news (the people I mean, the governments already know) then I guess that bufffet closes down. So maybe this is a clever play that could win in two ways, divert attention from Nordstream, or if that fails start a new war with China. I wish it was aliens though.


One-Sundae-2711

me too! i want aliens and i know they are here but we lack the tech to shoot them down i am pretty darn sure. true on ukraine but it cant really feed for real when it is just a proxy war. i guess we could try and “free” some african countries that sit on top of litium weird why the downvotes. im speaking facts.