Keep an eye to the sky, my friends.
The Chinese are coming. Or the aliens or whatever.
After the U.S. government announced last week that a fleet of Chinese spy balloons had visited the United States undetected in recent years, the military had to admit the obvious: it had an “awareness gap.”
So the U.S. military has been adjusting its radar to find flying objects – including balloons – that are smaller, slower and differently shaped than the enemy aircraft and missiles that have long preoccupied the Pentagon.
The result has been a spate of unprecedented shootdowns of mysterious objects – including on Sunday an octagonal structure downed by an F-16 over Lake Huron – raising still-unanswered questions about whether these phenomena are new or if they’ve been around all along.
U.S. officials acknowledge they are hard to find, even for the world’s most sophisticated military.
“What makes them really hard to detect and track is their size and potentially the shape,” said Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), describing them as “very, very small objects that produce a very, very low radar cross-section.”
The suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over the United States earlier this month led politicians to criticize the .S. military and U.S. President Joe Biden for not shooting it down when it first entered U.S. airspace.
The Pentagon said there had been four previous Chinese spy balloon flights over the United States in recent years.
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U.S. officials told Reuters that NORAD has been adjusting the filters and algorithms it uses to examine radar data, making them sensitive enough to detect these kinds of objects – ones whose ability to stay aloft, moving with the wind, is confounding U.S. officials.
Officials say a key change was to NORAD’s filters to allow them to detect objects moving slowly and at different altitudes, without specifying which ones.
“We have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar,” said Melissa Dalton, an assistant secretary of defense.
Following identification, the question is how to determine which hits on the radar are merely noise and which are possible threats worth scrambling U.S. military pilots to chase after.
So far the result has been a series of visual confirmations and shootdowns – three over the past three days – and accompanying closures of American and Canadian airspace to avoid collisions between military and civilian aircraft.
“We’re definitely looking harder now,” said a U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
This is the narrative.
They’re going to say “oh these UFOs must have been there the whole time, we’re just noticing them now because we were looking for balloons.”
It’s bullshit.
They always monitor the skies.
They are rolling out a UFO aliens narrative to dazzle these goyim.
It’s so dumb.
There are no aliens.
The NYT with a ridiculous question, asking the Pentagon if recent objects are of alien origin after the US shot down another Unidentified Flying Object.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) February 13, 2023
HOT TAKE: aliens do not exist. They’re actually demons.
— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) February 12, 2023
I don’t even agree with this Stew Peters take about “it’s really demons.”
Demons do not have corporeal form. The US Air Force is not shooting down demons.
This is all totally fake.