Over the course of one week, the United States has shot down one Chinese spy
balloon and three unidentified flying objects. Is this evidence
of a massive spy campaign by China, or is the US being invaded by aliens?
Social media is ablaze with the news of a Chinese spy balloons immediately followed by the shoot
down of multiple real life UFOs. The craze began with the discovery of a massive Chinese balloon,
carrying a payload described as the size of three city buses. First spotted drifting
over the west coast, President Joe Biden immediately ordered it be shot down. However,
the Defense Department recommended that a shoot down be delayed,
citing concerns over the civilians and infrastructure on the ground.
What we've learned since then is that the DoD may have been more concerned with gathering
its own intelligence than public safety, as the balloon was immediately surveilled by US aircraft,
which tracked it during its entire journey across the continental US. Concerns over
data collection were immediately raised, as the balloon flew over at least part of one US
nuclear missile field. However, the DoD assured that the balloon was not able to relay any data
back to its Chinese handlers, likely because electronic warfare assets were being utilized
to block either transmission from the balloon or reception by loitering satellites. We are forced
to speculate, as the DoD is notoriously secretive about its EW capabilities,
but the fact that it was fully confident that the balloon should be allowed to travel across
the US is indicative that there were no real concerns over intelligence gathering. Further,
it's unlikely much intelligence was gathered that wasn't already available via satellites.
But what really got the world's attention was the revelation of
another unidentified flying object over the northern coast of Alaska. On February 10th,
the US military revealed that it had tracked an object at approximately
40,000 feet over Alaskan air space. Details remain incredibly scarce,
but the object was observed by at least two different flights of American planes sent up to
investigate. On the second intercept, the object was shot down, likely using an AIM-9X missile.
What has people raising eyebrows is the alleged accounts, as told on national media,
of some of the pilots. Most notably, one pilot allegedly stated that the craft had
no visible means of propulsion, and that it interfered with his F-35's electronics.
Described as the size of a small car, the object drew immediate comparison
to the 2004 videos of US Navy aircraft intercepting a 'tic-tac' shaped UFO.
The very next day, NORAD detected yet another unidentified object- this time flying over Alaska
and crossing into Canada's Yukon territory. At the request of the Canadian government,
US fighters intercepted and successfully shot down this third mysterious object.
Once more details were scarce, but the Canadian defense minister confirmed that this object was
cylindrical in nature- which immediately got the attention of many UFO watchers. Of all
UFOs reported by eyewitnesses, the two most common types stretching back over a century
are of the traditional round saucers, and long cylindrical- or cigar-shaped objects.
Then came the bombshell dropped on Fox News by an anchor, who alleged that his
sources had spoken with the pilots involved in the intercept and had compared it directly
to the infamous tic-tac UFO pursued by US planes in 2004 over the Pacific. Right on cue,
the next day- February 11th, an object was spotted over Montana's air space,
prompting the DoD to shut down all civilian traffic in the region. Airspace was eventually
reopened, but on February 12th airspace over the Great Lakes was restricted to
civilian aircraft. Hours later, an Air Force F-16 shot down a fourth object.
To add further fuel to the fire, on the very same day China announced that it
was using artificial intelligence to track unidentified flying objects, it had detected
one flying right outside of the port city of Qingdao. As of the writing of this script,
the Chinese military was preparing to shoot the object down. Meanwhile,
in Urugay, its military was responding to bright lights seen hovering over its skies.
So what in the world is going on?
The entire world has turned to the Defense Department for answers,
but the DoD has been extremely tight lipped, citing ongoing recovery operations off the
Alaskan coast and in the Canadian Yukon. However, a DoD press briefing on February
12th stated that it was unknown how these objects were able to fly. This
could mean the objects either have an unknown propulsion system, or could in fact be rigid
hulled airships- something that the US and Chinese militaries both have used before.
If these objects are airships or balloons, then only two of them seem to be truly free-floating.
Recent jet stream tracking shows that it's possible that both the original Chinese spy
balloon and the object shot down over Lake Huron were simply riding the jet
stream. However, this doesn't explain the objects over Alaska and the Yukon,
which were outside of the jet stream at the time of their sighting.
The Defense Department also revealed that they had begun to work on the various filters used by
NORAD's powerful computers in order to detect more of these unidentified flying objects. In essence,
North America's air defense networks are optimized to track and detect known threats,
or anything approaching known threat vectors. However, objects that don't fly within these
parameters can sometimes be lost in the massive amounts of data generated. An effort to look back
at the raw data going back years, prompted by the discovery of the Chinese spy balloon, has revealed
similar tracks, and it's known that the US has detected and tracked similar balloons in the past.
However, this still doesn't explain the current objects being shot down on a nearly daily basis,
though it does explain why they are being seen- we are finally actively
looking for them. Craft like balloons or rigid airships can sometimes be difficult to spot,
as radar waves can pass right through them. However, there is a growing skepticism that
these are merely airships or balloons, and it appears as if one of the pilots sent to
intercept the object over Alaska was confident he was not looking at a balloon or airship.
For now though we're forced to speculate, as the DoD is releasing no details.
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