Posted on 12/16/2010 9:58:25 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
An Israeli warplane has shot down a "suspicious object" flying over the southern part of the Dead Sea, the military said, adding that the intruder appeared to have been a balloon.
The country's main nuclear reactor is about 30 kilometres from the Dead Sea, at Dimona in the Negev desert.
"Air force planes were scrambled after a suspicious object was seen," a military spokeswoman told AFP yesterday. "It was shot down." She did not elaborate.
Local news site Ynet said one of the planes fired a missile at the object "which was hovering close to the nuclear research institute at Dimona."
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The country's main nuclear reactor is about 30 kilometres from the Dead Sea, at Dimona in the Negev desert.
"Air force planes were scrambled after a suspicious object was seen," a military spokeswoman told AFP yesterday. "It was shot down." She did not elaborate.
Local news site Ynet said one of the planes fired a missile at the object "which was hovering close to the nuclear research institute at Dimona."
Paging Art Bell....
Five weeks in a...oops!
I am very suprised that the Israelis did not use their Iron Dome protection system and Patriot missile batteries. There are layers of Patriot missile batteries surrounding Dimona.
“This is what we’ve waited for! This is it, boys; this is war!”
Balloon.....
expensive balloon........ missiles are not cheap!
It was apparently a lousy balloon. You don’t waste a Patriot Missile on some Palestinian clown’s lost toy.
What you’ve missed is that a small object was detected and destroyed long before it became a threat, unless its’ purpose was soley one of reconnaisance.
It is a shame that Helen Thomas wasn’t in it.
Imagine if there were 99 of them.
It was serious enough that they send a jet up.
/johnny
you are smoking crack
I agree. I was just giving options.
/johnny
This is just as weird as losing a nuke out of Minot (why not?).
You and I, and a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got
Set them free at the break of dawn
‘Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, “Some thing’s out there”
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic lads, it’s a red alert
There’s something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we’ve waiting for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine knights of the air
Riding super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a super hero
Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify, to clarify and classify
Scrambling in the summer sky
As ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine dreams I have had
Every one a red balloon
Now it’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
Weather balloon.
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