Posted on 02/16/2023 7:19:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Do we finally have an explanation for why the Biden administration has been so tight-lipped about the unidentified flying object shot down over Lake Huron?
It wasn’t until Thursday that the president finally addressed the matter, providing essentially no details as to what was intercepted and downed four days prior. That was in stark contrast to the incessant bragging about the downing of a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.
So why all the secrecy? The answer seems to be that the truth is incredibly embarrassing.
JUST IN – A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of objects shot down by U.S. fighter jets – Aviation Week
pic.twitter.com/pxbjMGK4ot— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) February 16, 2023
RIP to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s ~$80 ham radio transmitter balloon, likely the victim of friendly fire by a $143,000,000 USAF F-22 firing a $485,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile during the Great Balloon Panic of 2023. https://t.co/4gyy91I1Jv
— Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) February 17, 2023
So let me get this straight. The United States Air Force wasted nearly $1,000,000 in AIM-9X missiles to down what looks to be a trash bag with a radio attached to it. Never mind the cost to scramble the jets themselves. And they did that because the Biden administration was desperate to save face after looking pathetically weak in dealing with the original Chinese spy balloon?
What an absolute clown show. Truly, this country is run by the most unimpressive people imaginable. No wonder the F-16 that fired on the object missed the first time. It was the size of a beanbag chair. This also makes Chuck Schumer and others who said these were more spy balloons look ridiculous. What intelligence were they going off of when they made their statements? Because if it existed, it wasn’t any good.
At the moment these objects were revealed to be tiny balloons of no consequence, they should have been left alone or downed with guns. Instead, it appears that the administration wanted to look tough so they blew a bunch of your tax money to shoot down a piece of plastic. It’d be comical if it wasn’t so sad.
bkmk
I’m not worried.
The CCP-owned military genius who abandoned thousands of US personnel and $85,000,000,000 of US materiel in Afghanistan in the middle of the night is leading the way to war with Russia.
What could possibly go wrong?
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!
Well, there ya go, FRfriends, our hard-earned tax dollars at work!!!!! /s
White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall (not joking)
You know you're safe in America when the WH admits that it's engaging in multi-million dollar military operations to shoot down used car lot balloons.
Maybe the Biden administration will claim it’s a white supremacist hobbyist club and that’s why it had to come down.
Splash one UFO or Chinese spy balloon.
“So let me get this straight. The United States Air Force wasted nearly $1,000,000 in AIM-9X missiles to down what looks to be a trash bag with a radio attached to it.”
Not even close.
paging PR Orcam
DR Ocam to the MSN Studio Stat.
HANDS UP! DONT SHOOT!
At 20,000 ft, they could have sent up a C-130 and grappled it our of the air.
What stupid bunch of MOFOs.
I don't know what it was but I hit it!
Half a million per missile ...there’s no earthly way it should cost that much.
Stooopid
Baddest Barroon Buster of the wird brue yonder!
These folks cannot distinguish a trash bag from a spy balloon today. Yet, they want us to believe they have retroactively determined that 2-3 spy balloons breached US airspace years ago during the Trump administration so they can get Biden off the political hook that China knew Biden was weak and would not confront their spying while Trump would. I am waiting for 51 intelligence experts led by head liar Clapper to produce a letter that Chinese spy balloons had free reign under Trump.
RIP to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s ~$80 ham radio transmitter balloon.
Only a dumb ass like Biden could do such a stupid thing.
No wonder were in a destruct mode.
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