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Pentagon Confirms Shot-Down Objects Aren't Balloons, Makes an Even Weirder Admission
Red State ^ | 02/12/2023 | Bonchie

Posted on 02/12/2023 8:19:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Alright, maybe I was too quick to dismiss the possibility of aliens.

The Pentagon gave a briefing on Sunday evening after yet another unidentified flying object was shot down, this time in US airspace over Lake Huron. Reports began to circulate that the object was an “octagon” and that it didn’t appear to be a balloon.

That set off some speculation that the recent rash of UFOs were balloons, likely from China, but that they were simply shaped differently than one would expect. In a pretty shocking statement, though, Gen. Glen VanHerck made it clear that’s not the view of the US military.

JUST IN – Pentagon does not know to what keeps these "objects" aloft, unknown propulsion systems.

"We're calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason," says U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck.

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 13, 2023

The UFOs not being balloons would be crazy enough, but things get even weirder when you hear a top US general admit that we don’t even know what is keeping these objects in the air. I’d think they did ample recon on whatever it was before shooting it down, including taking detailed pictures. I’d also think that the US military has the capability to identify pretty much anything China or another nation could throw at us.

So maybe it is aliens?

Okay, probably not. But things are getting a little disconcerting. Whatever these objects are, there are a lot of them, and there has to be a reason for them. If it’s China, are they testing US defense capabilities? And if they are, that leads to the obvious question of why they are testing them. Further, did China shoot down its own craft over Rizhao to keep up the ruse?

And what about the object itself? Do the Chicoms have some super-secret propulsion technology we are just now finding out about? That would be pretty hard to believe given the reach of US intelligence. Besides, even if the Chinese did have some yet-to-be-named technology we haven’t seen before, I highly doubt they’d send it over to the continental United States to be fodder for USAF fighter pilots. There’s so much that just doesn’t make sense here.

On second thought, it’s probably just aliens.



TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Society; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aliens; balloons; gaslighting; pentagon; spying; takemetoyourleader; uap; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 02/12/2023 8:19:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

2 posted on 02/12/2023 8:21:35 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Speculating as to why is not hard.
The Chinese almost have to invade Taiwan before 2024, because they don’t know who will be President.


3 posted on 02/12/2023 8:23:05 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: SeekAndFind

ChiComs having some fun with the daft twerps at the Pentagon. Don’t blame them really.


4 posted on 02/12/2023 8:24:20 PM PST by Rich21IE
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5 posted on 02/12/2023 8:24:32 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BenLurkin

I gotta admit I never thought I’d see seemingly otherwise intelligent people seriously suggesting we’re being invaded by space aliens.

BUT THE BOTTOM LINE : What’s become clear in the public discussion is that we don’t really have adequate radar systems. We certainly don’t have an integrated missile defense system.

Could this be the primary reason the first downed ChiCom balloon carried high-tech equipment capable of collecting communications signals and other sensitive information?

Information, no doubt, that was sent back to China on a real-time basis, further exposing the inexplicable lack of reaction by woefully incompetent Joe Biden for at least a week before he finally succumbed to public pressure and shot down the first balloon only after it had traversed the entire U.S. mainland and headed out over the Atlantic Ocean.

The Republican House should push the issue of funding closing the gaps in the U.S. air defense infrastructure system, ASAP, to the max — and dare Senate Democrats and Joe Biden to oppose it.


6 posted on 02/12/2023 8:27:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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7 posted on 02/12/2023 8:27:43 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: SeekAndFind

Braindead is a Chicom stooge. And he loves aliens. Illegal that is.


8 posted on 02/12/2023 8:28:07 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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bttt


9 posted on 02/12/2023 8:28:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Klaatu is NOT amused…


10 posted on 02/12/2023 8:29:00 PM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The people saying it’s a charade by the Biden regime are probably not far off, imo.


11 posted on 02/12/2023 8:29:02 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If they shot the object down, then what came down?


12 posted on 02/12/2023 8:29:04 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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13 posted on 02/12/2023 8:30:34 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: cuz1961

that’s very good!


14 posted on 02/12/2023 8:31:42 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Does anyone know why the rare Arctic Albatrosses are being shot down?? At this rate, they’ll go extinct. Biden strikes again.


15 posted on 02/12/2023 8:32:49 PM PST by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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So far nothing recovered from the three smaller objects.


16 posted on 02/12/2023 8:33:22 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yes.

It’s not hard to look at it.


17 posted on 02/12/2023 8:33:38 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BipolarBob

Because they’re a danger to high volume of commercial air traffic over Prudhoe Bay.

The Biden admin said so.


18 posted on 02/12/2023 8:35:09 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: SeekAndFind
Umtil one of those “OBJECTS” vaporize the fighter jets that are sent up to destroy them, they are..

BALLOONS!

19 posted on 02/12/2023 8:38:33 PM PST by crz
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To: Jonty30

of course they know. or at least, they know who will choose the winning candidate.

You don’t think we are voting our way out of this, do you?


20 posted on 02/12/2023 8:39:05 PM PST by WoofDog123
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