Ok - what are these flying objects the US keeps shooting down

[fissty]

First the ballon

Then a mysterious object the size of a car

now another BBC alert they are tracking another “ufo” across Canada…..

Chinese?

Aliens?

Its quite exciting.

You’re so cynical. They just got a bit lost. Total accident.

I think Sam Smith should be careful, he could be mistaken for another balloon.

I just so want to hear how the car size object was flying, apparently it wasn’t a balloon and was a cylinder. Surely, that deserved capturing and studying it? we have never made a cylinder float! 😁🤷🏻‍♀️

I said that the other day over pictures of Sunak/Macron/Putin
"Willie waving is what's going to finish this planet off"
However we go somehow Willie waving w

*will be to blame. What a way to go.

Just read there’s one in china also.

the mysterious discs were said to be blowing in the wind
The answer my friend...

All that said one possibility for what is going on is the Chinese (if it is them) are simply mischief making...

If they are going to do that then I was an amusing message painted on the side please.

One of the ones over USA was reported to be over 30 house stories high - not exactly hard to spot. How do you steer balloons and make them hover over one spot?

each one of the rockets used/needed to shoot down these balloons is mega pricey

People always said if the public became aware of UFO's there would be mass hysteria but there's barely a peep about these objects!

Well it's true that they are certainly not cheap but OTOH fighter pilots do ( or certainly did) get a very limited number of real missile to fire over their careers for training and also when a missile gets to it's life expiry date (use by date) it gets scrapped...

If it so happens that this balloon busting counts against the pilot's training requirement and the fired round is one that was about to scrapped anyway there's no real increase in spending.

Was it a windy day?

Apparently there may be another over Michigan at the moment

BREAKING: The FAA has temporarily closed down the airspace over the northern part of Lake Michigan, due to "department of defense activity." Monica Alba reports the latest.

twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1624835853385142278

I thought the 73 was a double decker?

I'm surprised there's not been a thread before. I do hate all this willy waving.

Dh said a senator had said that they were balloons.

Not sure myself and why announce it ? They usually don't.

I thought the 73 was a double decker?

It was!

I am quite freaked out by this 👾

smacks of 'wag the dog' to me.

what/who do we neeed to be distracted about?

More detail with a balloon

I'm wondering this too!

Chardonnay thank you for confirming it's not my imagination.

Oh ffs there’s one over China now too 👀👀👀