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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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To: SeekAndFind; All

The Space Aliens are coming. When the fedgov announced it was declassifying and releasing substantial amounts of reports and pictures on UFO incidents it ws immediately claimed that this was just a teaser to set up a really big false flag incident to (1) Create a rationale for a near martial law proclamation for the US (2) provide a smokescreen to shut up any real deep examination of the Covid scandals, the Russia Trump collusion hoax, Chinese penetration and manipulation of the US political establishment.


21 posted on 02/12/2023 8:39:20 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

IDIOTS! They are “probes”. /s


22 posted on 02/12/2023 8:49:45 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: faucetman

Please don’t tell Kanye.

He probably wearing god-knows-what from Rosa DeLauros closet thinking they are going to be brought to him if they ask to be taken to our leader.

Come to think of it, with all this garbage in the sky, had anyone seen our resident Romulan?


23 posted on 02/12/2023 8:55:09 PM PST by Celerity
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24 posted on 02/12/2023 9:08:25 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: SeekAndFind

25 posted on 02/12/2023 9:45:16 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: HighSierra5

They shot down a chinese balloon bus load of aliens over Huron?


26 posted on 02/12/2023 10:10:20 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: SeekAndFind
"I don't know what kind of privative backwater planet you are running her, but I am a member of the Ferengi Alliance and when you destroy someone's ship the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition plainly state: 'You Break it, You Buy It!' That will be 189 bars of Gold-Pressed Latinum if you please!"
27 posted on 02/12/2023 10:14:49 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Kartographer

🤣 🖖


28 posted on 02/12/2023 10:19:12 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: robowombat

I think you are on to something.


29 posted on 02/12/2023 10:25:21 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: SeekAndFind
We certainly don’t have an integrated missile defense system.

Apples and oranges. Missile defense uses IR sensors in outer space to detect rocket plumes. No, it can't see balloons. Nor can it see migratory birds. This is not a problem.

If you had asked the military a month ago why it doesn't search the skies for balloons, it may well have said it's for the same reason they don't search the skies for kites.

30 posted on 02/13/2023 12:11:33 AM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: HighSierra5

I think it’s a big distraction to keep the Crackhead Biden corruption off the radar.


31 posted on 02/13/2023 1:11:40 AM PST by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: BenLurkin

Who believes anything they say?


32 posted on 02/13/2023 3:47:07 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: miserare

Distraction theories are great except why are they needed? Most everything the distraction would be needed for has already happened, done its damage and nothings become of it. A GOP House of Representatives won’t make a lick of difference.


33 posted on 02/13/2023 3:57:14 AM PST by John W (W)
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To: SeekAndFind
?
34 posted on 02/13/2023 4:50:16 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Once you predict children will no longer see snow, you can’t now claim snow proves you are right)
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To: SeekAndFind

Come on folks. Any civilization which has conquered the speed of light to get here from there (?) should be able to easily evade our primitive weapons.


35 posted on 02/13/2023 7:09:58 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hot air capturing membranes?


36 posted on 02/13/2023 7:10:39 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“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.”

The systems are probably fine—years of Affirmative Action and gender bending hiring is most likely taking its toll.

Idiocracy was not supposed to be a government handbook.


37 posted on 02/13/2023 7:13:15 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile nobody is paying attention to the unfolding investigation into the Biden crime family and their traitorous activities.


38 posted on 02/13/2023 7:22:53 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Exactly.


39 posted on 02/13/2023 12:16:39 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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